Let it not be supposed that all Communists have been taken into custody, even in Canton city. Chan Foo-muk, head of the Farmers and Labourers Bureav, has been for a Jong time most violently "Red," and though he claims to have surrendered to the Canton government, his good faith is seriously doubted by most staunch Kuomintang members, Since April 15, Chan has been endeavouring to prove his loyalty by. showing hatred for his former workers by himself paying for Posters and newspaper articles attacking them, Ar the order of Gen. Chiang Kaishek, Mr, Kuo Tai-chi, Nationalist] Foreign Commissioner in Shanghai, thas lodged a protest with Mu S. i¥ada, the Japanese Consul-General, Against the contract entered into by the Japanese with the Fengtien authorities whereby the former undertake to repair the three Northern exuisers damaged by the Yangtze This contract, Mr. Kuo will affect the good friendship between the Nationalists and the Japanese Government.
Frou Oun Own Cosmpsroxnant Tokyo, May 16.
Charged with conspiring to em-Darrass the proper authorities by attempting to further the revolutionary cause in China, several Communist leaders to-day are held by the Tokyo police. Thirteen of the rmiost notorious of Japan's "Reds", however, have managed to slip away, 'Reports declare that they left for China some weeks ego, but that, police vigilance proving " far too embarrassing, they departed for Moscow, where they now "are supposed to' be. It is also report-that Japanese Communists. received an invitation from the Third International several weeks fand that these 13 have gone to Soviet capital to attend the—next conferences of that hand-maiden of the Moscow Government, One of the first of the radicals be taken into custody by the Japanese police was Suekichi Aomo, member of the Russo-Japanese Art Association, He returned from a trip to China recently and suddenly it was discovered that he had large sums of money to his credit in ous banks throughout the country. The police are trying to find out ame this money, the phases of Aomo's travels in Chi and what this money is for. doubt is entertained that the funds came from Russia through Chinese agents. Another suspect, aleo under arrest, is Tamiji Naito, who himself president of the Asso-charge against him is that he has been receiving money] from the Soviet Government.
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