Soon after the society was formed, Kao Tzu-yang, who was still in the military, came under suspicion. People from the Garrison Command arrived at his base in a jeep, and took him away to Taipei. There he was confined for weeks in a nameless location that looked like a Japanese villa on the outside, but was actually a prison.
互助會成立沒多久，他在軍中便遭受嚴厲管訓，警備總部的相關人員，開著軍用吉普車將他從新竹空軍基地「押」到台北市，在一處外觀像日式平房、裡頭卻是牢房的不知名地點關了幾十天。