At this special moment of the first anniversary of the Anti-Japanese War, Xiao Hongxia donated all the wages she had accumulated since working, a total of ten yuan and two cents.
Because various newspapers in Wuhan were rushing to report on her some time ago, her photos appeared in the hands of newsboys of all sizes on the streets every day, so almost no one in Wuhan didn't know about her.
So as soon as Xiao Hongxia came on stage at this time, everyone standing in the audience immediately recognized her.
"Hongxia, are you okay?" Many people asked with great concern after seeing Xiao Hongxia.
After Xiao Hongxia heard these caring words, he bowed deeply to the audience, and with tears in his eyes, he said to the audience: "Thank you everyone! Without you, there would be no me.
Xiao Hongxia. Everything is fine now, and I will definitely work hard to repay everyone and do my best to protect our Wuhan!"
As Xiao Hongxia finished speaking, the applause and shouts of everyone in the audience suddenly soared into the sky.
Then, Xiao Hongxia walked down the donation stage with blurry eyes and walked into the crowd. Many people wiped their tears and watched her go away, until her white nurse uniform gradually disappeared into the crowd.
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In this donation activity, all departments of the Kuomintang Party, Government and Military actively participated in it.
Among them, Chang Shenkai sent someone 18,000 yuan, Chen Cixiu also donated 10,000 yuan on behalf of the Hubei Provincial Government, and the Kuomintang Party Central Committee donated 23,000 yuan.
During the time when the donation event was being held, the first meeting of the National Political Participation Conference of the Kuomintang was also being held in Wuhan, so 200 political suffragettes participating in the meeting, such as Huang Yanpei, Shi Liang, Zou Taofen, Zhang Lan, Tao Xingzhi, etc.
Many people from the Center Party were not inferior to others at this time and made contributions one after another.
The Red Party and the Eighth Office came to donate money on the third day. It was also raining lightly in Wuhan that day, but the cold rain could not extinguish people's enthusiasm.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, amidst the bustling flow of people and vehicles, a line of large trucks slowly drove to the Jianghan Pass gold donation platform.
The car was carrying all the members of the Red Party's Wuhan office, and the words "Red Party Donation Group" in red and black were posted on the horizontal panels of the car, which were particularly eye-catching.
After seeing this situation, people also took the initiative to make way to the gold donation platform, and then the Red Party gold donation group, led by Chen Shaoyu, came to the stage to donate money one after another.
Chen Shaoyu first donated 1,000 yuan of national currency on behalf of the Central Committee of the Red Party, and then attached a letter from the Central Committee of the Red Party to all walks of life in Wuhan to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Japanese War.
The letter read: "The Central Committee of the Chinese Red Party entrusted the delegation in Han to allocate 1,000 yuan from the membership dues paid by party members in June to help the families of anti-Japanese war soldiers and injured soldiers."
Comrade Xiang Wu followed suit and put all of his one month's salary as deputy minister of the Political Department, a total of 240 yuan, into the cabinet.
Then, seven people including Comrade Yang Ziren, the representative of Bogu, donated all their salaries as political advisors for July.
Afterwards, 20 staff members of the "Eighth Office" walked up to the donation platform one after another and donated their July wages.
Comrade Peasant was the last to take the stage. On behalf of the Commander-in-Chief of the Red Party, he donated 1,000 yuan in food expenses saved by all the soldiers.
He also read in public an open letter from the Eighth Route Army to the donation event: "The Commander-in-Chief received a call from Shanxi, instructing the Eighth Route Army to use the food expenses saved by the Eighth Route Army's vegetarian diet on the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China during the July 7th Anti-Japanese War.
A total of one thousand yuan is donated to express condolences to the families of the Anti-Japanese War soldiers and to provide relief to the martyred compatriots. Since the Eighth Route Army has been fighting behind the enemy's rear, I telegraphed this amount from here."
This series of actions at the "Red Party Gold Donation Platform" immediately won thunderous applause from both the stage and the audience.
Because they had official duties, Comrade Xiang Wu and others left the scene in a hurry after donating the money, but everyone still left Meng Qingshu behind to give a speech. Meng Qingshu was Chen Shaoyu's wife.
While studying at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, Meng Qingshu attracted many people with her beauty and eloquence. However, because of her darker skin, she was known as "Black Beauty" and "Black Rose".
Although Chen Shaoyu was shorter, he was good at expressiveness and his speeches were very inspiring. Therefore, he finally picked this "black rose" among many suitors.
Regarding today's speech, Meng Qingshu actually improvised it, but it still retained her elegance when she was in Moscow.
"My compatriots, brothers and sisters, in addition to actively participating in various aspects of the Anti-Japanese War and nation-building work, we Red Party members are also willing to donate our July salary to comfort the soldiers and their families at the front, to rescue the injured soldiers and the victims.
Compatriots, come to show our respect and love!"
As she finished speaking, the audience at the donation stage suddenly burst into applause.
Meng Qingshu paused and then continued: "Compatriots, now the enemy is approaching Wuhan. Our compatriots in Wuhan must not only have the money and strength to contribute, but also organize and arm themselves to defend Wuhan!"
Then there was another storm of applause!
Seeing this, Meng Qingshu straightened the bangs under his forehead, and then raised his voice: "Today, as long as the Kuomintang and our Red Party can cooperate further, as long as we unite more closely, we will definitely win the war of resistance.
, we will definitely defeat Japanese imperialism!"
As soon as these words came out, the audience in the donation stage shouted like a tsunami: "Defend Wuhan! Long live the Chinese Kuomintang! Long live the Chinese Red Party! Long live cooperation!" These slogans echoed over Jiangcheng for a long time, becoming that
The strongest voice of the Chinese nation!
Over the past few days, the number of people from all walks of life who donated money reached one million, and the amount of donations reached more than one million yuan.
According to statistics, there are more than 400,000 yuan in legal tender, 1,156 pieces of gold and silverware, 774 items, various foreign currencies, foreign banknotes, copper coins, copper coins and checks totaling more than 500,000 yuan.
In order to make good use of this donation, the Kuomintang government established the "Wuhan General Committee from all walks of life to express condolences to the frontline soldiers" headed by Chen Cixiu and Guo Kaizhen, and used the proceeds from the "July 7th" donation to coordinate and carry out a series of condolence activities.
Later, in response to the lack of medical treatment and medicine at the front, they sent people to Hong Kong to purchase a large number of medicinal materials, and specially ordered 10 trucks to deliver these medicines to 12 war zones across the country.
At the same time, they purchased another 300,000 sympathy bags and distributed them to the soldiers in the fifth and ninth war zones to encourage them to fight the enemy bravely; they also launched the "Rescue Children Movement" and safely transferred a total of 9,000 children in need in the three town nurseries.
Arriving at the rear.
Regarding this event, "Xinhua Daily" published an editorial saying that the enthusiasm of this event is not only unprecedented in Chinese history, but also probably rare in the world. "It is a major test of the rise and fall of China! The result of the test is,
China will not die! China will definitely revive!"
Indeed, with such strong popular support, how could the Chinese nation be defeated at the hands of that tiny country?!