The Ambassador has the honor to enclose for the Department’s information
an Associated Press despatch datelined San Francisco, December 25, which
includes a list of Chinese Nationalist Government officials who have
been placed on a so-called “Communist blacklist”. This report is based
on a radio broadcast transmitted on the night of December 24 from
Communist-occupied China. It is understood that considerable “jamming”
prevented reception in the free China area.
The list has been rearranged in alphabetical order for reference
purposes, otherwise the despatch reads as it appeared in the Shanghai
English language press.
[Enclosure]
Associated Press Despatch in Shanghai Press
“Chinese Reds Broadcast Blacklist
of Officials
San Francisco, Dec. 25 (AP)
“The Chinese Communist radio broadcast today a list of Chinese
government officials and military men who, it said, are ‘war
criminals well-known for their heinous crimes, who, all Chinese
agree, should receive the just penalty’.
“Heading the list was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Mme. Chiang was
also listed under her maiden name, Soong Mei-ling.
“Most of the names were not surprising but the list included Vice
President Li Tsung-jen, who has been mentioned in China speculation
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as a possible peace
negotiator, and former Premier Chang Chun, also mentioned as a peace
advocate.
“Mayor K. C. Wu of Shanghai was also on the Communist
‘blacklist’.
“The ‘just penalty’ was not described in the broadcast, heard here by
the Associated Press.
complete list of names
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Chang, Carson, leader of the minority
Democratic Socialist party.
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Ch’ang, Ch’un, former Premier.
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Chang Li-sheng, former Vice Premier
and director of an economic blockade against the
Communists.
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Ch’en, Ch’eng (Gen.) former chief of
staff.
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Ch’en Kuo-fu, leader of extreme
rightest clique in the government.
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Ch’en, Li-fu, leader of extreme
rightest clique in the government.
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Ch’eng Ch’ien, long-time government
official and unsuccessful candidate for vice president last
spring.
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Chiang, Kai-shek.
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Chou, Chih-jou, air force
commander.
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Chu, Chia-hua, former education
minister.
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Fu, Tso-yi (Gen.), North China
commander.
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Ho Ying-ch’in, former defence
minister.
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Hsiung, Shih-hui (Gen.), Chiang’s
personal representative at Peiping headquarters.
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Hsueh, Yueh (Gen.), former director of
military affairs.
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Hu, Tsung-nan (Gen.), who captured and
then lost the Communist capital of Yenan.
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Koo, Wellington, ambassador to
Washington.
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Ku Chu-t’ung, army commander in
chief.
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Kuei, Yung-ch’ing (Adm.), navy
commander.
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Kung, H. H., former premier and
brother-in-law of the Generalissimo.
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Li, Tsung-jen.
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Liu, Shih (Gen.), commander on the
north front of Nanking.
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Ma, Hung-k’uei, independent governor
of Ningsia province.
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Pai, Ch’ung-hsi, (Gen.), defence
minister formerly.
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Soong, Mei-ling (Mme. Chiang).
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Soong, T. V., former premier and
brother-in-law of the Generalissimo.
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Sun, Fo, Premier.
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Sun, Li-jen (Gen.), head of the
government army school on Taiwan.
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Tai, Ch’uan-hsien, Kuomintang Central
Executive Committee member.
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T’ang, En-po (Gen.), commander of the
Nanking defences.
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T’ao, Hsi-sheng, former Kuomintang
official who aided but then broke with the Japanese puppet
regime during the Japanese war.
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Tseng, Ch’i, leader of the minority
Young China party.
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Tu, Yu-ming (Gen.), commander of the
government army groups now surrounded by the Communists near
Hsuchow.
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Wang, Hsu-ming, Vice Commander of
Nationalist Air Force.
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Wang, Shih-chieh, recently foreign
minister.
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Wang, Yun-wu, former deputy premier
and former finance minister.
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Wei, Li-huang, who finally lost
Manchuria to the Reds last month.
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Weng, Wen-hao, former Premier.
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Wu, Kuo-ch’en, Mayor of
Shanghai.
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Wu, T’ieh-ch’eng, new vice premier,
foreign minister and longtime secretary general of the
Kuomintang.
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Wu, Ting-ch’ang, longtime member of
various cabinets and anti-Communist pacification commissioner’
in Yunnan and Kweichow provinces.
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Yen, Hsi-shan, ‘last of the warlords’
and governor of Shansi province.
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Yu, Han-mou, head of Chiang’s land
forces.
definition of ‘war criminal’
“The Communist radio attributed this list to ‘an authoritative
personage’ at Communist headquarters in Shensi province but
reiterated that it was ‘incomplete and that a fuller list would have
to be worked out by all circles throughout the country’.
“The first say on war criminals, it added, should be given to the
Communist army.
“For example, it cited Gen. Huang Wei, commander of the 12th army
group, ‘whose use of poison gas in battle fully qualifies him as a
war criminal’.
“The Communists early in the week reported that they had destroyed
Huang’s group but what happened to Huang is not clear. The poison
gas charge is an old one, bandied back and forth by both sides but
never substantiated by either.
fu in same grade as chiang
“The broadcast went on to denounce Gen. Fu Tso-yi in the bitterest
terms saying that he ‘is a public enemy’ who had ‘butchered the
people like cattle’ and ‘a first class war criminal like Chiang’ and
half a dozen other generals of the above list whose names were
repeated.
“The broadcast again threatened ‘punishment’ without specifying its
nature but said Fu could lessen his ‘crimes’ if he would immediately
surrender Peiping and Tientsin.”
