The Archive · 1928

Communists Handed Over

At the Provisional Court, on Thorsday morning, the police sought an order of the Court to hand over three alleged Communists to "the Chinese authorities on the ground hat they had been caught in the act of distributing literature of a Communistic nature.

"B.S, 169, who had been detailed to look out Zor the distribution of propaganda Yeaficts, searched the accused on Ward Road on the 22nd instant, and found a bottle of ink, some chalk, and several pamphlets in their possession. The police contended that the accused had been writing some of the Communistic slogans on brick walls and the doors where they had been had been engaged in the slogans and showed the police some of their handiwork, some denouneing "imperialists," others calling upon the workmen to strike, white some urged that "Chiang Kai-shek the executed."

the accused had been arrested, Det.-Sergt. Telfer said that after] woman mill worker in the Yangtszepoo district was attacked by armed Communists, and was seriously wounded, Witnoas understood that the headquarters of the organization was in Chinese territory, and for that reason the police had no objection to their being handed over to the Chinese authorities, Judge Ling ordered that the accused should be handed over to the Chinese authorities,

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