Todd Ng, who works in the Taishan Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Guangdong Province, points out that in the 20s and 30s feuding between warlords had just ended when the war of resistance against Janpan took its place. Thieves became rampant; social order began to disintegrate. Dependents of overseas Chinese were frequently robbed or kidnapped.
任職台山市僑務辦公室的伍永志指出，二、三○年代左右，軍閥割據剛結束、對日抗戰繼而起之，盜賊蜂起，治安大壞，許多僑胞僑眷頻遭搶劫綁架。