Chen Tong

Chen Tong

Major general. Boqin, a native of Xuwen, Guangdong, was born in Guilin, Guangxi. He graduated from Guangxi law and politics school.

Personal profile

Chen Tong claimed his ancestral home as maishou village, Longtang Town, Xuwen County. In 1914, Chen studied in Guangxi law and politics school. In 1922, he entered the military and political circles and joined the Kuomintang. In November 1922, he served as the staff officer of the major of the division headquarters of the 10th division of the Guangdong army. In December of the next year, he was promoted to the staff officer of the commander. In October 1924, he was transferred to the post of major general chief of staff and head of the training regiment of the 48th army. In September 1931, he served as the captain of the first regiment of the third mixed brigade, which was adapted from the independent detachment of the Fujian Provincial defense army, and soon became the captain of the fourth regiment of the Fujian provincial security force. In July 1933, he was transferred to the post of deputy commander and head of the second brigade of the supplementary division of the 19th Route Army. In October, he was recommended to he by Jiang Guangding and served as the education director of the police sergeant Training Institute of the Guangdong provincial capital public security bureau. In 1934, he was recommended to Leizhou to take charge of the restoration of Dongdi. On July 13, 1935, he served as magistrate of Xuwen County and deputy commander of Leizhou advancing team.

Deeds

During the Anti Japanese War, Chen Tong found that the students of the working group of Xu Wen's returned students' Association in the province carried out Anti Japanese propaganda activities, and immediately sent people to investigate and stop them. They ordered to stop the activities of the youth Anti Japanese Association in the Lower East District, sent troops to search and arrest Communists and progressive youth, and sealed up the "Liangyou tea shop" and the Dayin transportation station sponsored by the Communist Party, as well as the youth reading club which publicized the Anti Japanese war. During the Spring Festival in 1945, the Anti Japanese guerrillas on the South Road of the Communist Party of China were preparing to hold a riot in Xiayang, Xuwen. After hearing the news, he led his troops to intercept in Gouxi, Ditang and slope areas. After the uprising, he gathered forces from Xuwen, Haikang and other counties to suppress the uprising, killed the Communists, and ordered the pursuit of a group of Communists and revolutionary youth. After the surrender of the Japanese aggressor army, it sent troops to various parts of the eastern region to search for revolutionaries and successively killed Yang Yisheng, a Communist Party member, Zhang Maojin, Lin Zengren, Zhang Zonghong and others. Deng Bangjun and other Communists who took part in the revolutionary activities in other places were not spared. They even asked for the establishment of special intelligence, took the lead in donating 600000 yuan as funds, and recommended special agents for investigation.
After the July 7th incident, Chen collected 8 million yuan of national currency from 1939 to 1944 in the name of collecting funds to buy guns, most of which fell into his private pocket. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Chen Tong, who was supposed to let the people recuperate, used various pretexts to force him to collect exorbitant taxes such as slaughtering tax, fresh salted fish tax, port and wharf tax, import and export tax, rice stall tax and merchant tax, with a monthly tax of more than 5 million yuan (national currency).
After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Chen Tong opened a large number of restaurants and set up casinos on the pretext of insufficient military pay. At that time, there were many restaurants and casinos in neiwuxu town. Most of the gamblers are Chen Tong's officials. They dominate each other and reap profits. There are many officers and soldiers going to restaurants and casinos, and countless people are poisoned by them. In order to make a profit, Chen Tong mobilized officers and soldiers to defend the casino.
In July 1948, Chen Tong was transferred to head of Haikang county and deputy commander of the eighth suppression area of Guangdong Province, and continued to commit crimes. On December 5, 1949, six regiments of the second Guangdong Guangxi border vertical detachment and eighteen regiments of the six regiments surrounded Haikang county. He was cornered and forced to lay down his arms, leading the Kuomintang military and political personnel to surrender to the people's army.
He was detained in August 1950 and executed on January 24, 1951. On April 11, 1985, the people's Government of the county dealt with the matter in accordance with the relevant policy of defection and gave vindication.

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