China News Agency, Hong Kong, January 16th: The traffic terminal of the Hong Kong-Kowloon Brigade still stands after 80 years
China News Agency reporter Suo Youwei
In the late winter sunshine, the flat grass in front of Wan Chai Village, Sham Chung, Hong Kong is green and yellow. Citizens are sitting and talking and laughing. A clear stream flows slowly in front of the village. The quiet place is a destination that many cyclists often visit.
The former Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade Intelligence and Transportation Station still stands in Wanchai Village, Sham Chung, Hong Kong. It is now a simple restaurant.
Photo by Huang Wenzhuang issued by China News Agency
A reporter from China News Agency recently followed Hong Kong history expert Professor Liu Shuyong to visit a piece of dusty history in Wanchai Village, Shenyong. The same group also visited the daughter of Yin Linping, the former political commissar of the Dongjiang Column, and Yin Xiaoping, the secretary-general of the Dongjiang Column History Research Association, and the former Hong Kong-Kowloon Brigade. Huang Wenzhuang, the niece of Huang Zuomei, former director of the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency, and the niece of Huang Zuomei, the International United Front Officer of the Political Training Office, and Li Yaobin, chairman of the Saigon NATO Rural Committee, etc.
February 3, 2022 is the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Independence Brigade of Dongjiang Column (hereinafter referred to as "Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade").
In order to fully demonstrate the merits of this armed force that was the only armed force that was established during the three years and eight months after the fall of Hong Kong, and persisted in the Anti-Japanese War from beginning to end, the Hong Kong and South China History Research Department of Lingnan University, Hong Kong, started to compile the "Hong Kong-Kowloon Brigade Chronicle", which was published by Lingnan. Liu Zhipeng and Liu Shuyong, associate vice-presidents of the University and members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, serve as editor-in-chief, and the Hong Kong Association of Guangzhou Associations funded research and publications.
Recently, Professor Liu Shuyong (first from left), an expert on the history of Hong Kong, learned about the situation from Li Guoliang (second from left), son of Li Huaxin, next to the original site of the Hong Kong-Kowloon Brigade Intelligence and Transportation Station.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Suo Youwei
Liu Shuyong told a reporter from China News Agency that at the beginning of the establishment of the Hong Kong-Kowloon Brigade, the brigade had been stationed in Sai Kung District and Sha Tau Kok. A liaison network was needed between the brigade and each squadron to keep abreast of changes in the enemy's situation and coordinated operations.
Sham Chung Bay is located between Sai Kung and Sha Tau Kok, occupying the best location.
Therefore, the Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade set up an information and traffic terminal at the residence of Li Huaxin, a patriotic overseas Chinese in Wanchai Village, Shenchong.
"My father, Li Huaxin, was 23 years old at the time. He made a living by picking grains to the Saigon market for rice. It took a long time to go back and forth, and it was very hard." Li Guoliang, Li Huaxin's son, recounted the past in front of his old house: "The Japanese invaders were at that time. In order to control food, Hong Kong residents can only buy food with food stamps issued by the Japanese army. In order to feed the guerrilla fighters, my father often gave them the food stamps from his family.”
In Li Guoliang's impression, his father was simple, kind, and helpful.
Li Huaxin retired from the police in 1973 after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and died in 2003.
And Li Guoliang himself was also a police officer under the influence of his father and has now retired.
Hidden in the Hong Kong-Kowloon Brigade Information Traffic Terminal in Wan Chai Village, Sham Chung, Hong Kong.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Suo Youwei
According to Liu Shuyong, the head of the intelligence and traffic station was Ye Pei at the beginning, but later Ye Pei was captured by the Japanese army, and Li Kun took over as the head of the station in 1943.
The station has 6 lines of communication, through which a large number of materials are transferred to the front lines of the Anti-Japanese War in the Mainland, and the intelligence collected from various parties is also passed on to the brigade headquarters, so that the commanding agency can make effective combat deployments in a timely manner.
The recollections of the relevant parties also show that He Niang, a relative who lives in Li Huaxin's house, often provides tea and cooking for the team members.
On August 20, 1942, when the Japanese army searched the traffic station, Zhang Fa, a young "little ghost trafficman", did not evacuate in time. Facing the Japanese army's questioning, Li Huaxin and He Niang calmly lied that Zhang Fa was their child. Successfully cover Zhang Fa out of danger.
Eighty years later, the former intelligence and traffic terminal still stands stubbornly. The building year "1936" marked on the roof stands out against the white walls and red frame.
A descendant of Li Huaxin's family runs a simple restaurant here, which is often visited by cyclists.
"Actually, I came here to play more than ten years ago, but at that time I didn't know that this was the information and traffic station of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade. Later, I did everything possible to find it." Yin Xiaoping said: "Most members of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade are locals from Hong Kong. , they are the sons and daughters of Hong Kong, but they have been forgotten by everyone for various reasons, and we should remember them."
"We are going to erect a monument here to let everyone know what happened here," said Liu Shuyong, who had finished the inspection, when he set out on his return journey and looked back at Wanchai Village.
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