Kashmir Princess incident on the Kashmir Princess

Appeared at Jakarta Airport. At the Bandung meeting, *** became the busiest person in Wise Oak. There is such a set of data:

During the seven days of the conference, he attended 16 meetings, met with guests 10 times, held banquets 15 times, and slept no more than 13 hours. Such an overload of transport has led to the success of Pai Bi Zhi China** in Bandung. "Before the conference, only six countries had established diplomatic relations with China, and after the conference, third world countries extended a hand of friendship.

Years later, these fraternal countries brought us into the United Nations," Cheng Yuangong said.

Kashmir Princess Incident Brief:

Kashmir Princess, a Lockheed Constellation civil aircraft of Air India, registration number On April 11, Kashmir Princess carried out a charter flight from India to Jakarta, Indonesia via Hong Kong, and was originally scheduled to take the CCP delegation to Bandung to attend the Bandung meeting. During his stay at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, a Kai Tak airport cleaner who had been paid off by the Kuomintang installed explosives on board the plane at his request. When the plane approached the coast of Indonesia**, in addition to the three crew members on board, 11 passengers and five crew members were killed.

Due to the temporary change of route, the assassination attempt failed.

With the assistance and urging of both China and India, the Hong Kong authorities made some efforts to crack the case, but in the end they did not extradite the main culprit, Zhou Ju, back to Hong Kong to stand trial.

Processing: On 18 May 1955, Xiong Xianghui, the representative of China**, and Mr. Gao, the representative of India**, arrived in Hong Kong. In the afternoon of the same day, Mr. Gao handed over the comprehensive intelligence materials of China** on the case to the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Alexander Grantham.

That night, the Hong Kong authorities began arresting Kuomintang agents.

From May 18 to June 1, Hong Kong authorities arrested and interrogated 88 people. After repeated investigations, interrogations, and verifications, the truth of the "Kashmir Princess" incident was finally revealed: the plane was indeed planned by the Hong Kong intelligence station under the Chiang Kee Secrecy Bureau, and the purpose was to assassinate the plane.

Its mastermind is Zhou Bincheng, and the specific perpetrator is Zhou Ju. After Zhou Ju succeeded in committing the crime, he hurriedly climbed out of the airport under the barbed wire before he could get off work, fled in the car that picked him up, and absconded to Taiwan.

Since Zhou Ju arrived in Taiwan before he was wanted by the Hong Kong side, the Hong Kong Front Reform Bureau could only ask the Taiwan side to send Zhou Ju back to Hong Kong for trial. On December 14, Taiwan informed the British Consulate in Tamsui that there was no extradition treaty between Britain and Taiwan, and that there was no legal basis for this request, and rejected the Hong Kong side's request. Zhou Ju is at large under the "protection" of Taiwan's security forces.

His father, under the arrangement of intelligence officers, was safely smuggled to Taiwan after the case. After the father and son arrived in Taiwan, they immediately changed their surnames and settled in Taiwan.

With the assistance and urging of both China and India, the Hong Kong authorities made some efforts to crack the case, but in the end they did not extradite the main culprit, Zhou Ju, back to Hong Kong for trial. What is even more regrettable is that the truth of this case and the main culprit behind it have never been ascertained, and this cannot but be said to be a regrettable ending.

Later, according to Gu Zhengwen, the governor of Hong Kong, who was taken aback by the "Kashmir Princess" incident, reached a verbal deal with Wang Xinheng, Taiwan's top supervisor of the Hong Kong intelligence network: As for Taiwan's intelligence personnel, Hong Kong can sabotage organizations and arrest people, but they are not allowed to sentence them, and they will be directly sent back to Taiwan and handed over to Taiwan for handling on its own. If Hong Kong** agrees to let Taiwan's intelligence personnel go, Taiwan's intelligence officers promise not to carry out terrorist acts such as bombing, killing, and arson in Hong Kong, and to stop printing fake Hong Kong dollars.

After the incident, the Hong Kong Police Force immediately investigated and identified the suspect in the incident, Chow Tsz-ming. But Zhou managed to escape to Taipei and get asylum before he was able to take action to arrest him.

The incident occurred on April 11, 1955, when, according to the original itinerary, the delegation of the People's Republic of China should be led from Hong Kong to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, to attend the Bandung Conference.

The Kuomintang authorities in Hong Kong spies used 600,000 Hong Kong dollars to buy off Zhou Ziming (pseudonym Zhou Ju), a cleaner at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, and installed a time bomb on the right wing of the Indian Airlines Kashmir Princess, which was scheduled to be boarded.

The Kashmir Princess plane carried 8 crew members and 11 passengers (all members of the Chinese delegation and journalists participating in the Bandung meeting), but the assassination target *** himself had just undergone appendicitis surgery, so he temporarily and secretly changed his itinerary and went to Bandung to attend the meeting via Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar, via Kunming.

The "Kashmir Princess" incident, which shocked the world, was a political assassination during the Cold War between the East and the West.

Kashmir Princess, this incident once shocked the world at that time, it can be said that everyone must remember the incident of this ship, this is also a shame for our country, at that time it was the Americans who said that we shipped contraband and wanted to stop the ship for inspection.

First, news came from Moscow that the airliner crashed in the South China Sea. Soon, the news was reported by several foreign news agencies. And Taiwan-Jiang Radio has already broadcast the news of "*** landline crash".

At that time, the list of martyrs had not yet been obtained, and "everyone gathered in the prime minister's house in fear and grief, and stayed up all night waiting for news from Beijing, and once again discussing whether the prime minister should abandon the Bandung meeting." However, the prime minister was insistent. ”

Cheng Yuangong remembered that it was not until dawn that everyone dispersed, *** returned to his room, read Deng Yingchao's letter, and wrote the famous "Kunming Reply Letter".

In 2009, Qian Sijie came to the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing as usual, where his former comrades-in-arms, brothers, colleagues, and leaders are buried. In front of a monument engraved with the words "Cemetery of the Martyrs Participating in the Asian-African Conference" inscribed by ***, he stood for a long time, and the back of the monument is the names and resumes of the 11 martyrs who left in the "Kashmir Princess" incident, Qian Sijie can silently recite these names that have been called thousands of times in his dreams without looking: Shen Jiantu, Huang Zuomei, Li Ping, ......

Sometimes, when I look back, I think, how much I have lived in the past 50 years. Fifty-four years ago, as one of the two survivors of the Xinhua News Agency's special reporting team for the Bandung Conference, Qian Sijie's life was unexpectedly favored.

When the plane was over the South China Sea**, Qian Sijie, 27, who had bid farewell to his new wife and was going abroad for the first time to attend an international conference, was in a hotel in Jakarta, nervously awaiting the arrival of his colleagues and leaders.

Previously, he and his newspaper operator Liu Maojian were sent to Hong Kong to purchase reporting equipment with a long list. Before the things were bought, Huang Zuomei, director of the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency, made a decision: *** The two messengers took a boat from Hong Kong to Bandung, carrying a lot of important things with them.

At that time, the two of us were not happy, so we had to take a boat and leave. ”

In this way, after drifting at sea for 7 days and 7 nights, Qian Sijie arrived in Jakarta. "Knowing that the 11th army was coming, I got up early in the morning and fidgeted with excitement. ”

The radio in the room was on, killing time, "Suddenly there was news that the Chinese delegation's plane was ......."Qian Sijie did not say any more, and the memory of that moment did not diminish with the years.

In Qian Sijie's mind, those once young faces are still young, "At that time, Shen Jiantu's wife was 9 months pregnant, he was a talented man who had returned from Indonesia, with shining eyes, and he spoke English better than Chinese; Huang Zuomei is also a talent, and she is a little sloppy ...... doing things”

There doesn't seem to be a better way to do it than to cheer up. "I want to fulfill their unfulfilled wishes for them. "At the Bandung meeting, Qian Sijie didn't sleep for 5 days and 5 nights.