The Archive · 1929

Extensive Organization Discovered

na three-day drive French police arrested over 300° suspected com munists and agitators, 55 of whom have been detained, and believe they have broken up the communist ganization in their di portal Communist party in the whole of Shanghai have been made.

Over 1,000 kilogrammes of pamphets and posters, with a quantity of pistol and rifle aroma seized in a raid and the Central Propaganda Bureau of the Communists in that district has been sealed. Detectives searching the letters re ceived at this Bureau since th aid believe that, by their arrest plan rea. The letters ask completely upset the

where the agitators can obtain' arns, ammunition, and pamphlets, now that the police have seized the: central supply.

Original Plan hoid Bare 'The original plans called for an assembly of communists 'August' 1 at the end of the French Bund whence they were to gain groups, to Nanking Road, which all documents reveal to be the objective of the. demonstrate ors. Bundles of pamphlets were ready wrapped in fruit baskets, cloth, and tied up in small packages resembling packages of coppers, Which the, agitators wore to have curvied with them through the streets, Many packages of literature were seized ready wrapped-up for the parcel post, with, addresses The literature was of a violent communist nature, calling for fanti-foreign uprising and the over throw of landed proprietors. The Kuomintang government was heavily attacked for having, according to pamphlets, betrayed the Chinese revolution. to the imperialists, and having taken the Chinese Enstern Railway from Russia, The Powers ure accused of planning another world war against Russia, one of their objects being the partition of China. for the police to obtain information from this man as to the identity and hiding places of the other leaders.

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