introduction
When the country is in great trouble, there are always countless benevolent people who stand up and bow down for the country and the world and die, just as the "Nanshi Yangkan Biography" said: "For a long time, Ru was dead, but it was still evil. I pledge myself to the country, swear to die, and finally I will not live in peace. ”
Born in the Guangxu dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Yu Dafu was not only a talented patriotic writer, but also an anti-Japanese leader. In 1938, at the age of 42, At the invitation of Hu Changyao, the director of Sin Chew Daily, he took his family to Singapore to serve as the chief writer of Sin Chew Daily.
▲ Yu Dafu sculpture
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In early 1942, Singapore fell under the Japanese attack. Yu Dafu, Hu Yuzhi, Wang Renshu and 19 other people were forced to evacuate to sumatra province in Indonesia, where they arrived at the official city of Baya, where they were occupied shortly after settling down. In order to hide his identity and continue his anti-Japanese work, Yu Dafu changed his name to Zhao Lian and began to grow a beard. A group of people opened a Zhao Yuji distillery here to make ends meet. As the Tang Dynasty poet Han Shan described: "Make a face change, do not leave the old people." ”
Yu Dafu and others skillfully maneuvered here and continued their underground anti-Japanese activities. Many overseas cultural circles and anti-Japanese elements also gathered here. Subsequently, in order to further obtain economic income and carry out work, Uddhav organized manpower and material resources to open a soap factory and a paper mill here. At this time, Zhao Yuji Distillery had become an activity center for overseas anti-Japanese people, and they also secretly established the Anti-Japanese Organization Tongren Society, and the intelligence collection work and anti-Japanese propaganda were further carried out.
▲ Zhao Yuji distillery old photo
One day, at the home of Cai Chenglian, the head of the overseas Chinese in Baya City, Yu Dafu was discovered by the Japanese gendarmes that he was proficient in Japanese, and he was forced to work as an interpreter for the Japanese gendarmerie detachment for 7 months. During this period, Yu Dafu still did his best to organize anti-Japanese activities, and also covered up the overseas Chinese leader Chen Jiageng. Once, the Japanese governor of Medan, the capital of Sumatra, sent someone to the Japanese Gendarmerie Department to seek assistance in trying to capture Chen Jiageng, but Yu Dafu skillfully coped with the past, so that they could not succeed.
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There are many similar things, Mr. Xia Yan mentioned in the article "Remembering Dafu", Chen Jiageng once said personally: "Mr. Dafu not only covered me, but also rescued many arrested overseas Chinese. In May of the same year, a head of the Malaya Communist Party also said: "This Boss Zhao Lian is really remarkable, without his help, our organization will suffer irreparable damage." ”
▲ Old photo of Yu Dafu
Although Uddhav and his colleagues tried their best to keep a low profile, as the work progressed, danger was still looming towards them. The Japanese sent secret agents to investigate the "Zhao Lian" boss. There was a Japanese-trained Fujian agent, Hong Peigen, who, after a thorough investigation in early 1944, informed the Japanese military police that "Zhao Lian" was Yu Dafu.
After learning that he had been accused, Yu Dafu immediately informed his colleagues Hu Yuzhi, Shen Zijiu, Wang Jinding and others to evacuate Baya Gongcheng As soon as possible. Everyone hoped that Uddhav would evacuate together, but Uddhav said that he had been monitored and that if he evacuated together, he would expose everyone, so Uddhav did not leave.
▲Old photo of the Japanese gendarmes in Indonesia
Soon after, the Japanese Gendarmerie sent someone to find Yu Dafu, expose his true identity, and try to send him to Shanghai or Tokyo. Uddhav flatly refused. The Japanese gendarmes kept Uddhafu under intense surveillance and did not arrest him at the time.
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On August 15, 1945, after two atomic bombs exploded on the Japanese mainland, Japan declared defeat and surrendered unconditionally. Upon learning of this, Yu Dafu was ecstatic and immediately gathered local overseas Chinese to continue to fight for the rejuvenation of the motherland overseas. However, Uddhav's wish did not come true. Half a month later, on the evening of August 29 of the same year, Cai Qingzhu and several other overseas Chinese visited Yu Dafu's home, and several people were discussing the matter of welcoming the triumphant coalition army. An Indonesian youth in civilian clothes suddenly came to visit and asked Yu Dafu to go out to talk, and Yu Dafu never returned and disappeared.
▲ Statue of Uddhav
People at home and abroad are highly concerned about Yu Dafu's disappearance and have never given up the investigation, but they have not been able to obtain reliable information to determine yu Dafu's final whereabouts. On September 27, 1985, Xinhua News Agency reported such an incident: Masao Suzuki, an associate professor at Yokohama City University in Japan, began to study Yu Dafu's life experience in 1966 and went to Singapore and Indonesia three times to personally investigate. Masao Suzuki searched for hundreds of locals and consulted countless sources, and finally found the Japanese gendarmerie squad leader who had ordered yudafu's killing.
The gendarmerie squad leader was 75 years old when he was found, with gray hair. He admitted that he ordered the abduction and execution of "Zhao Lian". The reason for this was the fear that Uddhav would expose the crimes of the Japanese army. After Japan announced its defeat and surrender, he sent four gendarmes on the night of August 29, using the locals to lure Uddhav out, kidnapped him in the nearby wilderness, and then killed him.
epilogue
Uddhav was a man of letters and a warrior. He has been wandering all his life, using the pen in his hand to call for the War of Resistance, and he is also protecting the motherland he loves with practical actions. In that era, there were many people like him. If there is no predecessor's blue blood paving, where is the prosperity and peace today. The more we live in times of peace, the more we must remember that history cannot be forgotten, and our predecessors must not forget it.