Tokyo, Sept. 28.
Whether it is because the Bolsheviks are convinced of the hopelessness of trying to spread their subversive doctrines in Japan, or that a halt has been called as negotiations between Japan and Russia in ogard to recognition of the Soviet fare pending, Red propaganda has considerably' diminished in Japan, according to the Foreign Office.
For some considerable time, official civeles here were sorely worried at the spread of communist doctrines in the country. Elaborate efforts were made to stem the flow of propaganda from Russia, but whether the methods. adopted were insufficient whether the were craftier, Soviet Far East Propaganda Headquarters in Moscow continued to. come in to an alarming extent.
There is now a Full and the Japanese authorities are Inclined to the Deliet that the So the matter as a bad job.
The money that the Soviet has been regularly supplying to Japanese radicals, through Mr. Sen Katayama, notorious Japanse socialist who is now in Moscow, has ceased to come, and agitators in Japan are said to be in a hard fix because of the lack of these sinews of revolution.
The Communistic University in Moscow is also said to have refused fall of sadness. "I have often felt that there are two sides to life," she said. "I have often wanted to help) girls in a lowlier station, but there was the gap between my _position land theirs which could not be bridged in Sweden. I am known everywhere] there, and my desire to secure em-_ ployment like any other factory lass, live their life and thus' know their Jjoys and sorrows could not be done in my own homeland."
'So the Countess travelled incognito! to the United States, dodged Society Vionesses waiting to' entertain her, Jand, clad in a common cotton dress and factory girl's hat, proceeded to [Chicago, in whose tremendous surge humanity and bustle she was; effectively lost.
took the name of Elsa Boma," she went on with her narrative, "and tried hard to secure employment, This was not so easy. For several days I tramped up and down the: streets of that busy American city] tunable to get a job. At one place, T was asked whether I had taken out my first citizenship papers. I had not and the door was practically slammed in my face. At last, an elderly man, from whom I begged job, took me to see the foreman of" leather factory and I was put down on the pay register as Elsa Boma, with wages at $17 a week. My hours were from 7 a.m. to 4.30 Pan." to accept Japanese with its previous ardour, and suspect that the Japanese going there are, in reality, spies of the Government and of the capitalist classes. The Foreign Office expresses the conviction that the Soviet faith in Japanese communists and other "ists" is waning.
'The Koreuns, too, say the Foreign Office, are not' receiving the championship they have been hitherto accorded by Russia, As proof of the change, the authorities point to the fact that a party of Korean In~ dependents were ordered out of Vladivostok, while a party of Korean insurgents on their way to Moscow to secure help, were stopped at Irkutsk and turned back.
Chinese Gold Smugglers Caught The Japanese police claim to have unearthed a plot in which several Chinese of Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama are said to have been smuggling gold coins and bullion from Japan into China.
On information received an oficial of the Japanese Home Department, made certain investigations Shanghai, and, on information thereby gleaned, the steerage quarters of the N.Y.K.S. Shanghai Maru, were thoroughly searched, prior to the vessel leaving for China ports. 'Underneath a heap of bedding, the water police discovered a gold' bar, of melted coins, said to be worth 'Y.10,000 and several hundred yen gold coins.
Simultaneously with the search of the Shanghai Maru, a raid was made on a Chinese exchange shop, Fan Tai, in Yokohama, "Here evidence was collected, it is alleged, to prove that the proprietor of the Fan Tai exchange shop was working in col-lusian with Chinese in Kobe and Shanghai to smuggle gold from Japan into China. A. corporation, capitalized at Y. 600,000 had been formed for the purpose, the police say.
Close on a million yon worth of gold has been recently smuggled out of Japan, according to the police. The coins or jewellery are melted and then beaten into shapes convenient for secreting in the shoes, socks or clothes of the smugglers. The Japanese law forbids the exportation of gold from Japan to any other part of the world, except when special permission has been obtained, 'A Countess's Real Fairy Tale And the Countess grew tired of her easy life in her palatial redence, sailed across the seas, went to a factory, mixed with the working girls there, earned $17 2 week and lived in their dormitory until she sailed back to her own country."
All went well, and the Countess trudged to her work every morning, taking a simple lunch wrapped i old newspaper, just like any other girl. She soon became very popular fand even received a proposal of lage. One day, however, the foreman of the establishment came in with paper. The "Chicago Tribune," revealing that the identity fof the pretty factory lass from Sweden had been discovered. The Countess Elsa failed to reckon with newspaper sleuths. expected to be discharged," she said, "but nothing happened. When T got home, a press photographer levelled his camera at me. The next day, everyone knew all about me, The manager of the establishment wanted to know whether I would li to look round the place and I did so.
Countess Elsa expects the ex} fence she has had in Chicago to her in very good st turns to her homeland where she hopes to ameliorate the conditions of working girls. She is not the only niember of her distinguished family that has tried to serve the less fortunate. Her father, brother of King Gustav V, is president of the Swedish Young Me ber of the Board of the Young Women's Christian Association.
After studying factory conditions in Japan, the Countess will proceed to China, Korea and India, "and thence return to her homeland.
The Countess Elsa is not married, but on the ring finger of her left hand gleams a beautiful solitaire diamond. Rumour says that the son of the King of Sweden placed it there with her consent, and the good Countess Elsa is expected to live happily ever afterwards as Queen of Sweden, a splendid ending for even a bed-time story.
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