For some time past there has been constant communication be the Communists of China and. Japan. The Japanese police were aware that there were connex-jons between Russian, Chinese and Sapanese Communists, but, for lack definite evidence, they were un-fable to do much more than maintain 4 careful watch. The—principal leader of Japan's Lefts, Kazuo Fukumoto, is thought to have managed to make his way to Tustia and with him are believed to be! Teishin Nabeyama and Masanosukd Watanabe, leaders of the Labour Council, a well-known Left organization in Tokyo.
Besides the secret communication that has been going on between the! radicals of this country and. those of China and Russia, there has been more or lees open." communication between the Kuomingtang at Hankow and the Labour-Farmer party of Ji The latter is the most tremely. inclined of the four So-rialist political parties in Japan and {s presided over by Professor Tkua Oyama, formerly on the faculty of Waseda University, one of the largest private universities in Japan. Constant intervention by the police, {frequent raids at Professor Oyama's house and a charge (which, how lever, had to be dropped, due to lack of sufficient evidence for the Crown) that he was instigating a plot against the established order of things, compelled him to quit is post at the Waseda University.
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