Politically all remains very quiet. The districts round Swatow seem now to be well clear of Red control, but in the move remote ones they azo still heard of, The student body here vot a nasty Jar recently when one of their number was taken out t" public execution, He belonged to a middle! school which had become little more than a centre of agitation and propaganda of the extremest sort, and had consequently been taken over and reorganized as part of the purge ing out of the Reds. In spite of gang in the school persisted in their activities, and fresh communist} pamphlets were traced back to the school. The result was a raid, the seizure of two motor-ear loads of literature, the arrest of half a dozen boys and givls, and the closing down of the school.' One was selected as a victim, and the others let go.
No doubt they were acting on the assumption that no official would dare to take extreme measures against the asccosanet persons. of students; and considering how for years past students in these parts ave been a law unto themselves and dictators over everyone else, there was some gran id for the assumption, In any ease it pretty discredit-fable off which first lets i's, and even' ages them to do_ $0) a m they go further than fs ennvenient, can find no better remedy than shooting them.
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