The Archive · 1929

REDS RAMPANT NEAR SWATOW Magistrate's Urgent Plea for Military Help

Canton, July 1, The magistrate at Swatow has: sent an urgent demand that troops shall be rushed to that city. It appears that the Communist army comununded by the notorious, reds, Generals Chu Teh and Mo Che-tung, has entered eastern Kuangtung from Fukien and is moctirz with practically no resistance cing to the absence of troops, who ha: e been withdrawn from that regler: in cone rection with the operations against the Kuangsi leader Lis King has ended in dismal failure. there comes to light a report that the alice have discovered that Red agents have for some days been busily engaged in sowing the seeds of discontent among union workmen Canton. The governmen strength isnot belittled by. the Communist organization, and the Reds must know it would be suicide for them to attempt to try to work another coup, but the Communists will never be ruled out for not trying to advance their cause. They had selected the mechanics as the workers most easy to work om. Strikes for months now have been few and far between. Nevertheless, the employees of the Sunning Railway, which feeds the from which come most of the Cantonese who go to America to seek their fortunes, walked out in a body on Sune 23. Their principal demand was that their employers should take back all men who have been di charged in the past, and the walk ing delegates from Communist head quarters have been doing their ut~ niost to induce the employee: of the railways running out of Canton, and mechanics employed by indus: trial firms, to follow the their brothers in the Suns There is no cause for the autho: on, and the walking delega: es know that they have been discovered, and have gone into hiding, The Government believes that the mechanics, whose minds have been filled with prejudice against their employers, can he made to see that it is Mos cow that has been talking and not friends who have the genuine interest of the working man at heart,

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