Youthful Communist Ardent but Indiscreet: Tries to Bribe Wrong Man: Cooli and Peasants Involved Prox Our Own Canton, May 25.
One of the personal bodyguard of Marshal Li Chi-sen about a week ago without exciting the suspicions the would-be briber, told superior officer that he had been approached by a Communist who Sought to purchase his services. A trap was laid, the radical caught in the act of renewing his offer, and) made to give a confession which' involved numerous other persons. A dragnet was thrown out, and many Communists have been hauled in.
Canton has had quite a thrill be-' cause of this Red scare, and it transpires that just at this time a second attempt to set up a Communist ime in Canton was to have been made, wi this "clean-up" undoubtedly cut short.
Advantage is frequently taken by! robbers of the noise created by an excited and joy-secking popula during some celebration, to blow, bank safe. In like man jeals thought to- act cover of the anti-Japanese agitation. The Rods would lead in this agitation, they would shout the loudest in defiance of the Mikado, until all was, ready for another explosion which would tear a breach in the political walls, through which the "Com. munists would pour, seizing the go ernment and driving out Li Chi-sen and all his officers.
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