Apr, 12, The newspapers continue to emphasize that the communist intrigue fg largely the outcome of defects in the soctai sysirm which, they say, requires rectification.
The "Jiji," in the course of an editorial, ringes the protection of the poor "against the wolf -—hunger" and the removal of the unfair Privileges of peers and others as a means to this end.
The paper also demands that the Government should deal drastically with reactionaries as well as com-complicity of students in the affair, takes the occasion to censure professors who fail to distinguish between academic discussion of social theories and the inadvisability of putting them into practice.
The press appears to reflect the opinion of the general public, as there is little doubt that real communists in Japan are numerically searce, The root of the trouble is the content, owing to the high cost of living, of the masses, whom the communists are trying to exploit.
The fact ig that the cost of liv. est in the world while business and ceonomie conditions are among the ing in Japan at present is the high-poorest.
Though only a few communists are still at large, the authorities are still closely watching suspects.
The Government is.believed to have the situation well in hand.
Those communists to be prosecute ed will be tried during the October sessions of the courts, but it is doubtful if there will be many convietion as the main evidence Tics lammatory circulars issued dur-inge the election, There is a possibility that the trial will reveal that money has been supplied to the communists from Russia, Such proof, so far, has not been forthcoming. The Soviet Government flatly denies any connexion, which is probably true, as the funds, if furnished, probably came from the Third International direct—Reuter.
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