The local community has been stirred by the seizure of some Communists and a large amount of materials for propaganda which was effected by Captain G, R, Bass, Cap-tala-Superintendent of Police in the Kulangsu International Settlement, with the assistance of his staff on May 14.
For some time it has been suspected that Communists were operating from Kulangsu. Finally information enough was got to fix suspicion strongly upon certain houses within the Settlement, The raid was order~ ed and proved successful beyond all expectations, Four men were caught, ly large amount including, a complete printing outfit.
Of great interest were the printed materials found, There wore pictures of Stalin, Kalinin, Bucharin, These. materials also. included text-books, lectures, pamphlets, and posters on various' phases of communism. There were letters, essays, maps, written reports, und minutes from every district centre in Ful organization, number the general condition an movements of ps, and fur ther give their morale and the extent to which they are influenced by agents, Complete orders were found isued by the General Heada Shanghai, and trict Headquarters Fukien, From all app angus was used as a distribution contre for this part of China. All indications so for are that the seizure includes the complete archi-vos of the Communist cause in South Fukier The reports included cover period of nine months ending April, 1980, So groat is the amount of material that only a small part has as yet been examined. All the papers, together with the men arrested, has been handed over to the Chinese authorities in Amoy by Captain Bass. The complete plans of the munist Party in China have been put into the hands of the government, It is a wonderful chance for the Government to clean out the Communists in China, and it can only be hoped that war will not prevent the necessary, coop tion.
Wholesale raids could be made immediately throughout Fukien if ope! jut with the present con-were political unity and co-
fusion and disagreement, it is gen-jared that little can be ac~ complished, The Amoy authorities fare not strong enough to go into the interior themselves. enough to do to look after their own ground.
Colonel Lin, Chief in command at Amoy, has*set a number of men to tremendous task of examining this mass of material, from which it is
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