The Archive · 1929

Only a Mere Tyro?

The leaders of the party in Shanghai were not known to anyone Tike himself, he declared.

not know. where the head quarters of any of the other disfwiets were, nor who. were the leaders in them. While in Hunan he had not been a communist as he had seen many of them killed and tortured. "Tt was only when he came to Shanghai that he was converted to the creed. This he repeated over and over again, We were still in conversation with him when another batch of arrested Persons was brought. in. One of them seemed to recognise Lieu, as stopped. short suddenly in the doorway. A push from a detective moved him on, and a Chinese plai clothes constable who had been wai ing in the passage discreetly out of ear-shot daring' our interview came an placed' his hand on Lieu's shoulder.

So we bade Lieu goodbye,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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