Over Eleven Hundred Suspects Arrested: Some Released Osaka, Mar. 17, The general pnilie here is unaware of the wholesale arrests of communists, which tock place carly of the morning of Thursday, March U5, because the police placed a strict ban on the publication of the news. In Kyoto alone, over 1 men were rounded up, "In Toky: Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Okayama, Fukuoka nnd Hokkaido, the police raided the headquarters, secret render vows and. residences of those suspected to be engaged in communistic activities fand adzed secret paper, letters and Hiterature, "Tt is believed that altogether hearty 1,000 persons were arrested simultaneously in the towns mentioned, but many of them have since been released, including Professor Tkuo Oyama, the head of the Labour Farmer Party.
It appears that the attention of the police was called to the dis. tribution of radical hand-bills at the time of the recent general election. These were mostly printed by mani folders and contained the us communistic slogans, It is said that the police did not tuke immediate action for fear of creating. the impression that the authorities campaign. were interfering with the election
In Japan all communistic activities are. prohibited, Therefore, the do not t the existence of a communistic organization Neither do they permit the spread of "Red" propaganda.
Some of the men detained by the police are former university students. Others are mostly "young men more oF less able to understand the doctrines of Karl Marx and his disciples. Some are connected with small proletarian newspaper.
The distribution of radical hund-
Is gave the police the ground for, their" arrest." Furthermore the police appear to suspect the left wing of the Gabour Farmer Party have received substantial financial support from Moscow.—Reuter.
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