The impact of the "Ho-May Agreement" has become increasingly severe. Many progressives have published articles, strongly criticizing the traitorous behavior of the Nanjing government. Fortunately, everyone is paying attention to natural disasters these days, and the "Ho-May Agreement" has not been confirmed. Otherwise, otherwise
The whole country is going to be in turmoil.
By the way, a movie called "Children of the Storm" is currently being released, and the theme song "March of the Volunteers" is widely sung.
Mr. Tian Han was invited to write the lyrics for the theme song, but he was arrested and imprisoned just after completing the composition. In prison, he wrote the lyrics on the back of cigarette wrappers, and the comrades who visited the prison forwarded them to the film company. Mr. Nie Er is also facing the spies.
He was arrested and asked to compose a theme song for a patriotic movie. After fleeing to Japan, he received the lyrics and sent the written score back to Shanghai.
These two gentlemen, one trapped in prison and the other fleeing to a foreign country, jointly completed the national anthem of China in the future.
Unfortunately, Nie Er died soon after. He accidentally drowned while swimming in Japan. He was only 23 years old.
Zhou Hexuan had corresponded with Nie Er some time ago. Nie Er said that he was planning to take the Siberian Railway to the Soviet Union. Zhou Hexuan wrote to persuade him to leave quickly, just to avoid this tragedy.
But for some reason, Nie Er has not boarded the ship to leave Japan.
There are many theories about the cause of Nie Er's death. The more mainstream theory is that Nie Er suffered a heart attack while swimming. Conspiracy theorists believe that Nie Er died of poisoning by the Japanese because "March of the Volunteers" was widely sung at that time.
This attracted the jealousy of Japanese militarists.
In mid-September, the major floods in the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers have come to an end, but many places are still flooded.
At this time, Zhou Hexuan, his wife Zhang Leyi, and his secretary Yu Peichen set off for London by boat.
The ship they were traveling on was still sailing on the ocean, and the British businessmen who were interested in China, represented by Sassoon, had already begun a high-profile propaganda campaign.
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Limehouse, the future site of London's Chinatown.
As early as the Daoguang period, some Chinese workers and sailors had been living in London and settled in the shipyard area. By the Guangxu period, there were more and more Chinese here, and it had become a veritable Chinatown.
In later generations, London's Chinatown was famous for its restaurants and supermarkets, but in the 1930s, it was London's most famous slums and a gathering place for legal opium dens.
Even native British people sometimes visit Chinatown because it is safe, convenient and affordable to smoke opium here.
Just last year (1934), this place was ordered to be demolished by the London City Government. After all, it was really unsightly, but there were still a large number of Chinese staying there. In just one year, various shacks, wooden houses, and iron houses were rebuilt.
Some two-story buildings were even built.
No matter when and where, the survival ability of the Chinese people is always so tenacious.
In a restaurant that reopened just two months ago, more than a dozen Chinese students are having a meeting, and the owner of the restaurant is responsible for meeting liaison, reception and logistics.
The restaurant owner is called Liu Xingzu, and his grandparents have already settled in London. He does not belong to any political party, has not even read many books, and is thin and insignificant. It is hard to believe that such a person would organize and sponsor meetings for international students.
This started with the "September 18th Incident". News of the fall of Northeast China spread overseas, shocking countless overseas Chinese and overseas students, who spontaneously carried out various anti-Japanese and national salvation activities.
The overseas anti-Japanese and national salvation activities in the 1930s were divided into three stages:
In the first stage, everyone took action individually. Everyone held their own opinions. Some advocated immediate resistance, some advocated accumulating strength, some advocated peaceful reunification, and some advocated reunification by force. Various small groups were diverse and scattered. Although
Enthusiasm is high, but there is no organization at all.
In the second stage, the Fuxing Society (Blue Clothes Society) was established, and Chiang Kai-shek's forces took advantage of the situation. The Fuxing Society held high the banner of national justice, recruited international students to join, and called on overseas Chinese to donate. However, they always preached that "to resist foreigners, we must
"Settle the house first", countless funds were spent on the activities, but there was no result at all. Some international students even raised objections, and the Fuxing Society actually threatened to stop funding for studying abroad.
Now, the overseas anti-Japanese and national salvation movement is about to enter its third stage.
Those overseas Chinese and overseas students who were strongly dissatisfied with the Kuomintang Renaissance Society began to spontaneously unite. The overseas Chinese provided activity funds, and the overseas students organized anti-Japanese groups to jointly launch a real anti-Japanese and national salvation movement.
The international student who presided over the meeting today is named Yang Kai, who is the third batch of international students sponsored by Zhou Hexuan: "Yesterday, we established the name of the group, organizational framework, liaison system, activity program, etc. Today we will discuss in detail the actual anti-Japanese and national salvation strategies.
Please speak freely, classmate Ji Mingxing will be responsible for the minutes of the meeting."
Someone immediately raised their hands and said: "I think our first job is to publicize, so that foreigners and overseas Chinese are aware of the development of the situation and the suffering that China has suffered. There are three main methods of publicity: first, social publicity. Using social activities,
Academic activities, etc., contact journalists and sympathizers from various countries, and strive to participate in international academic conferences; second, oral propaganda. Try to make as many foreign friends as possible, and gain their friendship and sympathy as much as possible through daily communication; third,
Third, written propaganda, such as publishing English publications, printing English pamphlets and manifestos, etc. I have said it, and I hope all students will adopt it and support it."
"Bah bang bang!"
Yang Kai took the lead in applauding and praised: "Classmate Xu Liqin's speech is very high-level and very high-level. Especially the written propaganda, this must be done well. Everyone, continue!"
Another person raised his hand and said: "We have too few people and our influence is almost zero. I think we should contact more anti-Japanese and national salvation groups to form a British anti-Japanese and national salvation alliance to increase the momentum. At the same time, reject the Fuxing Society's
If the Kuomintang lackeys join, they will only bring bad atmosphere to the organization!"
"Yes, we can't let people from the Fuxing Society come in," an international student yelled angrily, "I joined their anti-Japanese group last year and donated all the money I earned from my hard work to fund activities. I can only eat two meals a day. As a result
What? I'm just trying to compete with him, I don't do anything, except hold meetings and talk nonsense, I just help Chiang Kai-shek to promote the civil war!"
Yang Kai quickly said: "It's a meeting, don't use bad words. As for the Fuxing Society, I don't want them to join. This has been added to the charter. Let's continue."
Everyone spoke freely and expressed their opinions. For example, they contacted and guided more overseas Chinese, such as establishing stable contact with the country, establishing transoceanic donation channels, forming an anti-Japanese academic research group, etc.
The atmosphere of the meeting was very lively, and the sincere feeling of working together to patriotism and save the nation infected everyone present, and the blood in their bodies seemed to be boiling.
The "September 18th Incident" was just like the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1898. It brought great excitement to the Chinese people, and at the same time it also gave birth to countless great and unknown patriots.
Let’s take the science giant Mr. Qian Weichang as an example. He initially studied history, but he switched to physics after being stimulated by the September 18th Incident.
When he heard the news of the September 18th Incident, Qian Weichang thought that studying history was useless. He should learn to build aircraft and cannons so that China would not be bullied. He hurried to the office of the dean of the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University and found that he had already
There was a long queue, and one-fifth of Tsinghua students came to apply for the physics department. At that time, there were only 10 places for enrollment in the physics department.
After queuing for a long time, Qian Weichang finally met Wu Youxun, the dean of the Department of Physics. He said excitedly: "What our motherland urgently needs now is science and technology, aircraft and artillery! So I want to study physics. Although my math, physics and chemistry scores are not good enough,
Okay, but I am determined to catch up, sir, please rest assured!"
Director Wu Youxun was moved by his sincerity and was very pleased. Then he looked at Qian Weichang's results and rejected him very decisively.
Qian Weichang actually passed the physics test...5 points!
In the end, Qian Weichang decided to study in the Department of Physics, because Wu Youxun was so pestered by him that he had no choice but to agree to let him try to study for one year first, and the future physics master was born.
The patriotic spirit of this era is unimaginable to people in the 21st century.
The meeting in the restaurant almost ended in the evening. The boss Liu Xingzu rushed in holding a just-released evening newspaper and shouted happily: "Dear students, there is good news! Mr. Zhou Hexuan Zhou won the Nobel Prize for Literature and
A candidate for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, the newspaper said he was a 'giant from the Far East'!"
