For some time past, the Japanese [Government has been worried about the spread' of radicalism, especially amongst the intellectual classes. Hundreds of intelligent and educated persons have been black listed the police all over the country. Special care was kept on_ Unive sity students, especially on students lof the various Imperial Universities, Jas the police claimed that some the professors in these universities [were tainted with radicalism, For the past couple of years, it! has been fashion amongst students the higher educational institutions to get together and jointly study social science. These groups of students organized a federation, whose numbers soon reached the thousands, and who kept up an intermittent' correspondence, exchange ing views and books. The Government became alarmed and the Police were asked to probe into the affair. This was done early this year, and the result was the arrest fof 137 students from various parts jof the country, charged with being the brains of q movement to subvert the existing social order in Japan and to substitute instead a committee form of Government based on Communist principles. It] fs this case that is still dragging out.
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