/kloc-in the spring of 0/932, German * * * party member, West Birla and Braun (the latter is Li De) each took $20,000 in cash to Shanghai to meet sorge, and sorge personally implemented the rescue plan. However, the effect of this measure has not been clearly recorded. What is certain, however, is that1May, 932, the Kuomintang military authorities held a trial in the name of the Criminal Division of the Jiangsu Provincial High Court under various pressures. The trial was held many times in Nanjing and Suzhou, and dozens of Chinese and foreign journalists attended the trial with special permission.
In court, the Niulan couple and their defense lawyers repeatedly exposed and protested the illegal acts of the Kuomintang authorities. For example, the China court's trial of foreigners who enjoy consular jurisdiction in China violates the relevant laws and regulations of China; The court does not allow the defendant to hire a foreign lawyer and does not let the lawyer know the case; The criminal suspect has been detained for more than one year allowed by the laws of China; During the one-year detention, the defendant changed to six prisons and suffered inhuman treatment; During the trial, the prosecutor refused to show the court material evidence and witness to prove the defendant's guilt. When Niulan and his wife were unconscious because of hunger strike, Kuang Kuan, the director of Nanjing "First Model Prison", invited an American doctor to help them force the prisoners to eat, but the doctor refused. When Judge Li Mian agreed that Soong Ching Ling and Cai Yuanpei would vouch for the Niulan couple, Tan Gan, Minister of Justice and Administration, thought that this treatment was "illegal" and resolutely opposed it. All this has been reported continuously by French Reuters, DPA, Shanghai English edition of China Forum, Shenbao and other Chinese and foreign media. As a result, the international movement to support the rescue of the Niulan couple and condemn the fascist behavior of the Kuomintang reached a climax.
Hundreds of international celebrities, including Einstein, Bernard Shaw, romain rolland, Dreiser and Dewey, jointly or individually issued public appeals to rescue the Niulan couple and protested against the Kuomintang authorities. The Chinese Soviet Provisional Government called the National Government from Ruijin to demand the release of Niulan and his wife, on the condition that all imperialist missionaries in the Soviet area were released.
1932 On May 27th, the International Executive Committee decided to publicly condemn the detention and trial of Niu Lan and his wife by the Kuomintang reactionaries. Since then, Pravda has published reports on the incident of the bullpen and the trial process almost every day. The titles of these articles are "the secretary of the trade union is in danger", "the ninth day of hunger strike" and "the will in prison".
A western reporter wrote: During the trial of a foreign couple by the Kuomintang military authorities, nothing was gained and the whole game was lost.
Soong Ching Ling is the most popular figure in the international rescue of Niulan couple. 1In July, 932, Soong Ching Ling initiated and organized the "Niulan Rescue Meeting" and personally served as the chairman. She personally went to Nanjing to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei and Tan, visited Niulan and his wife in prison many times, and twice promised in writing that Niulan and his wife would be released on parole for medical treatment. At that time, Niu Lan and his wife, who had fasted several times, had no hope of survival. The only worry is their son Jimmy. The couple who are wandering around the world have a son in middle age and regard him as the apple of their eye. In foreign prisons, Mrs. Niu Lan witnessed her young and ignorant only son playing with a female prisoner (referring to Shuai, etc.). For details, please refer to Model Made by Handsome Meng Qi party member by Central Literature Publishing House), and her mood can be imagined. Although several families expressed their willingness to raise Jimmy at that time, Soong Ching Ling was the only one who could be trusted and knew their true identity in the eyes of the Niulan couple, so they asked Soong Ching Ling to come forward and send Jimmy to the home of a German named Hertz they knew together. Jimmy wrote: I spent my childhood in China. I remember I had two homes at that time. One is in Shanghai, and the Hertz couple take care of my study. The other is to put my biological parents in a prison in Nanjing. I visit them every year and always go to Nanjing on my birthday. According to my mother, Soong Ching Ling got the right and date of my visit.
1936, before Mr. and Mrs. Hertz returned to Germany, they went to Nanjing Prison to ask my parents for advice. I was nine years old. I remember my parents anxiously saying: Jimmy can't go to Germany. Jimmy went to Soong Ching Ling to find a way. Later, Soong Ching Ling took me to her house and stayed for several months. She also asked me to take photos in China's little hat and China's little robe and send them to my parents in prison. /kloc-at the end of 0/936, Soong Ching Ling sent me to Vladivostok again.