ABSTRACT
During the night of December 14, 1945, soldiers from the Wusong-Shanghai garrison arrived at the home of Roland Sarly, the Assistant Director of Police in what had been the French Concession, and arrested him. In the course of the next few days, Sarly was handed over to the Chinese municipal police, who had him brought before the prosecutor of the High Court of Shanghai. According to the investigation carried out by the garrison, Sarly was guilty of collaboration and treason. He was accused of having held the post of inspector with responsibility for external relations in the municipal police force of the puppet government of Wang Jingwei, from August 1943 to March 1945. The young man, of Franco-African descent, had received no special training following his secondary schooling. He entered the concession's police force as a uniformed policeman. The local administration, openly financed by the illicit profits from opium and gambling, was discredited.
