SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN: Chao An-na had to ask the National History Museum and the Presidential Office for the information needed to have her father inducted
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 28, 2018
By: Aaron Tu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Army Commander General Wang Shin-lung (王信龍) yesterday presided over a ceremony
Honor guards carry tablets bearing the names of five soldiers newly designated as martyrs at the Martyrs’ Shrine in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times
at the Martyrs’ Shrine in Taipei to add the names of five people to the list of those who gave their lives in service of the nation.
According to information provided by the Ministry of National Defense, the highest-ranked officer added to the list was major general Chao Chung-jung (趙仲容), who was born in Shanxi Province in 1905 and fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War.
In 1949, Chao was ordered to investigate whether general Fu Zuoyi (傅作義), then commander of the army’s anti-communist group in northern China, was planning to defect to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Chao was arrested in Beijing on June 7, 1949. He was charged with destabilizing the mass movement for refusing to surrender and executed in 1951 at age 46, ministry archives showed. [FULL STORY]
