The Loan Office of the Wuhan Library is located at the intersection of Zhongshan Avenue and Nanjing Road, which was the garrison of the Japanese military police in Hankou during the fall of Wuhan. Since this building was originally the site of the Dafu Bank before the Anti-Japanese War, the people of Wuhan at that time called this gendarmerie "Dafu" gendarmerie.
The "Dafu" gendarmerie not only set up checkpoints at the land and water exit points and traffic arteries in Hankou, but also often sneaked into hostels, stacks, houses, and any place they wanted to go to arrest so-called "suspects" at will. They also imposed a variety of extremely cruel interrogation laws on these people, and punches, kicks, and whips were commonplace. Sometimes people are tied up and suspended on all fours; or people are lifted up and thrown to the ground; or a large amount of salt water is poured first and then stepped on on the stomach; or electrocuted; or a wolfhound is called to bite... Its methods of killing people are even more cruel, such as eye gouging, peeling, water flooding, knife splitting, electrocution and so on. Residents around the gendarmerie could hear screams from inside in the dead of night, and bodies were often transported to the river in the middle of the night to be thrown away.
"Once you enter the Gendarmerie Hankou Team, you will not be able to return, even if you come out, you will be crippled." "The gate of the temple of Yama opened to the west, and [Hurimari] arrested people. All kinds of criminal laws are exhausted, and the dead are carried every day, but the chickens cry out that the sky is bright, and the devils are willing to fall early. The two folk songs circulating at that time expressed the hatred of the masses for the "Dafu" gendarmerie.
In 1946, Taiichiro Fukuyama, former minister of Japanese special services in Hankou and war criminal Taiichiro Fukuyama, confessed at the Hankou Japanese War Criminals Detention Center that there were about 10,000 Chinese in the "Daifu Bank" nitro chain water cave. More than 5,000 people were bitten to death by wolfhounds in the courtyard of the former Hankou Bank of China (now the intersection of Zhongshan Avenue and Jianghan Road, the former headquarters of the Hankou Gendarmerie Of the Japanese Army) before the War of Resistance. Many people were also tortured to death in the water prison at the bottom of the Huashang Association of Hankou Huashang Street (now the Wuhan Science and Technology Information Center on Jianghan 2nd Road).
The "Dafu" gendarmerie was not only maimed by the anti-Japanese soldiers and patriots, but also many innocent people, the most typical of which was the victims of the "wire massacre".
In July 1941, nearly 200 meters of power lines were cut away from Xunlimen in Hankou to Zhongshan Park. Ernan Tanaka, the squad leader of the "Dafu" gendarmerie unit, led a large number of gendarmes, Chinese translators, Xian Zuo, and other traitors to the scene of the accident, forced more than 2,000 people to go to the open space of the Chinese merchants' racecourse (now the area of Tongji Medical University on Aviation Road) to be tried in a concentrated manner, and forced them to hand over the people who cut the wires, otherwise no one was allowed to leave. It was the height of summer and the heat was unbearable. The innocent masses basked in the sun and night for two or three days and cut off their diet. Only standing, not allowed to sit, not allowed to sleep. The Japanese gendarmes were guarded by live ammunition, and some were beaten at the slightest movement, and under this inhumane threat, many fainted on the spot (some of them later fell ill and died). Even so, the person who cut the wire could not be traced. Tanaka saw that things were very stiff, knew that the people of Wuhan were indignant, and had to turn around in order to avoid provoking a popular uprising. Luo Zhu'an, a gentleman merchant, came forward and handed over the shop guarantee jointly stamped by 500 merchants to prove that these masses were good people, and only then did they release more than 2,000 people. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the main culprit who caused the "wire massacre," Tanaka Ernan, was punished as he deserved.
The "Dafu" gendarmerie also set up a killing field in a low-lying area called Tanjiao Lake (now part of The town of Regent in Huangpi County) more than 20 miles north of Hankou City. Victims are often brought here on the first day to dig a ditch, and the next day they are blindfolded by the digger, escorted to the edge of the ditch and kneeled, beheaded one by one with a knife, kicked into the ditch, and buried with soil. From 1939 to 1945, at least two or three groups of people were killed here every month, ranging from twenty or thirty to sixty or seventy people per batch.
The pool that goes down the stairs to the end is most likely the Japanese "corpse pool"
On July 4, 1952, more than 1,000 local farmers gathered here to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the July 7 Incident and to accuse the Japanese army of massacring Chinese people. After the meeting, local farmers excavated more than 60 ditches to bury the victims' bodies, taking ditch No. 24 as an example: only 1,000 feet long, 4 inches wide, 4 feet 5 inches deep, buried as many as 75 corpses, layer by layer, the body and head are separated. Some of the bones were handcuffed, even wearing wire, and ropes were left in the ditch to bind people.
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