Nov. 23.
On Monday morning a long statement appeared in our columns from a radical labour group in Shanghai, erying sup-Posed wrongs in' exaggerated diction and inciting to a gener strike, which bore all the unmistakable marks of Bolshevist inspiration, We know with some certainty that a considerable portion of the crimes of violence that are committed in this community are perpetrated by the pupils of Red agents, Chinese Communists or their' acolytes, and that a good number of men must by now be expert and ruthless enough to give an excellent account of themselves in guerilla warfare. It is said that there are now 25,000 Chinese men and women in' Shanghai and its environs on strike, very largely under pressure from the terrorists who herd them in and out of the factories and mills like sheep and who are, in their turn, responsible to some active chief with a diplomatic passport and a refuge, at a pinch, in the big house at the north end of the Garden Bridge.
On the book page this morning, will be found a tong review of a new book on the Soviet docu ments seized in Peking in April, by a Mr. N. Mitarevsky, who was of the Commission appointed by, the Peking Government to examine and catalogue the inmating papers. It is shown 0 clearly that the criminal work of the Reds in China has the backing not only of the Third International and the Russian Communist Party, but of the Soviet Government as well, and that the diplomatic and consular agents, not to mention the commercial establishments, of the Soviet. Government almost _invariably function as the directors and patrons of crime, that] the most callous Red prevaricater would scarcely have the face to deny such allegations now. At the end of the review, to which we call attention, will be found a short paragraph, an} extract from the minutes of al Communist gathering, in which
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