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Chen blamed last month's Formosa rebellion on Snow Red. This was unduly modest of him; most of the trouble had been made by Chen and his postliberation carpetbaggers from the mainland...
...Make Reds. When Chinese rule returned to Formosa (ending Japanese possession since 1895), 64-year-old Chen had seized an opportunity himself. With his Chinese aides and "monopoly police" he took over and expanded the Japanese system of government industrial and trade monopoly (sugar, camphor, tea, paper, chemicals, oil refining, cement). He confiscated some 500 Jap-owned factories and mines, tens of thousands of houses. As the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Pao remarked, he ran everything "from the hotel to the night-soil business." The Formosans felt like colonial stepchildren rather than long-lost sons...
...pleasant evening a truckload of monopoly police cruised down the main streets of Formosa's capital, Taipeh, hunting monopoly violators. They piled out, clubbed a woman who had been hawking cigarets. (This was against Chen's law, which said that Formosans could smoke only Formosa-made cigarets-from his gang's factory.) A crowd gathered. A policeman fired. The crowd chased off the police, burned their truck...
...nobody had been killed when the gendarmes fired into the crowd on the first day. Moon Angel was just as well known as Snow Red. She was a Taipeh lady doctor, locally famous for championing relief and rehabilitation for displaced prostitutes, who had beaten Snow Red for election as Formosa's woman delegate to the National Assembly in Nanking. Fellow Formosans did not like Moon Angel's radio speech, however. They dragged her furniture and belongings into the street and burned them...
...leading rebels he could identify and catch, and his troops had wantonly slaughtered (said a Formosan delegation in Nanking) between 3,000 and 4,000 throughout the island. Moderate tea-merchant Wang, Chen said, was deceased: "When the troops arrested him, he resisted and was shot." Chen closed down Formosa's last newspaper because it printed a Nanking report that he would be fired...