One of the hypotheses which has grown out of the examination the two Koreans whose attempt on Baron Tanaka's life resulted in the death of Mrs. Snyder on Tuesday afternoon, is that the misguided men, now in custody, were directly inspired by Bolshevist agents and have been, together with many others now resident in Shanghat, in the pay of a Soviet bureau in Irkutsk.
Independent investigations made by a member of the staff of this paper would seem to go far towards proving this assumption.
The existence of not only one but two Korean Bolshevist parti working under Russian inspiration and subsidy, has been well known to the police of both Peking andi Shanghai, for nearly a year. Early in October last the Peking police raided " house occupied by Koreans in the North City cast of the Drum Tower, and discovered enough literattire and correspondence t" prove that the occupants were in the pay of Russian propagandists. Subsquently three men were ar-vested and held for some day These men were Li Sung, Kim C hun (atlas Liu) and Dr. Han Chin-san. A fourth member of the group, an English-speaking Korean named Chang, then recently te-tuned from Siberia, elicited influence in quarters sympathetic to the Korean cause-and the men were released after a few days detention. The Peking police, however, put in force @ system of surveillance which made life very uncomfortable, not only for the agents of Irkutsk but for all other Koreans as well, and the result was a general exodus.
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