Tokyo, Jan, 21.
The Imperial Poetry party was held in the presence of the Emperor in the Palace to-day when 49,000 [poenis were entered for competition fon the subject, "Morring Sea" which eas chosen by his Majesty. Brom this "number, the best ten poems were selected, One was composed by a girl student of 20-and another by a, maid-servant at Prince Chie jchibu's household—Reuter. 4 the majority of Japan's Lett-Wing-wre radicals in. theory. vathor han in practice and that the likes Tihood of the few really active com= munists making any" very, great headway among the masses' of the People is so comparatively' remote hat resort to the maximum penalty, a deterrent is not called for.
"ly still undoubtedly. true, fact, that a far greater: danger to and to the exist form of government, Is to be fou the ranks of the' reactionary or= eanisations than among the handful of youthful' radicals and psetidoe communists, and there is possibly Sone foundation for the assertion made recently in a manifesto issued the Shitmeo—itsclf a. somewhat reactionary body—that the 'Thind International had ordered the real Japanese, communists Mo aasime ing out that right-wing upheaval reactionary, ultra-patriotism pointe should precede 'a' left-wing revolu, What amount of truth there may: be in this assertion it is- impossible to say; but certain itis that, apart from the lip-service paid. to the slogan of loyalty to the Eniperory the programme and activities of the reactionary Seisanto, to. which 30 Imany of the former left-wing leaders have flocked, smack far more of active communism than to. the ademio "and somewhat anaemic dangerous thoughts" of the major ity of those who are arrested in the periodic round-ups.
is noticeable, in fact, that the ce majority of these latter are ingsters—many of them of good ites-—in their early twenties. and seem to, be of the "parlour, Bolshevik" variety. The danger is that, in treating them as though they [were dangerous criminals, the iron
Touse in them a permanent gruel sane tenes ut et cou and
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