Authorities' Step to Prevent Up-
Alleged Plotters of Disturbances ing of Communists Arrested by French Police Thursday being the anniversary The French police on Wednesday of the Party Purgation Movement, discovered five secret communist (the day when. Gen, Chiang Kai-offices. and arrested 20 communists shel commenced to root out Ca who, it is stated, were preparing to munists. from Chapei), the Head-create disturbances on April 12, the quarters of the. Gendarmerie anniversary of the disarming of the announced that special martial pickets of the Shanghai Labour for three days would be enforced Union, A quantity of important the Chinese city beginning on documents was found. The S. M. P. Thursday evening, aa precau-have taken precautionary measures tionary measure against any. unin the Yangtszepoo district. towards occurrences. All traffic will Fearing that communists might be suspended after 9 p.m. take advantage of the fact that the Nationalist Armies have boun general attack in the north, General.-|Zih Dah-chun, Commander of the ing monopoly in Nantao, '98nd Nationalist Army, and Garri-
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