The Archive · 1928

More Communists Raided

Red Literature and Plans for Outbreak in Nanking Demonstration Seized: Second, Road Quickly Quelled The death knoll of one of the important local communist propaganda distributing centres sounded on Sept. 6 when police of the French Concession raided a meeting place of the local Reds and succeeded in taking into custody the five officers of the branch together with considerable documents. and literature that identified those captured with playing leading réics in the demonstration of Sept.

The raid was carried out under the able direction of the Chief the Political Bureau, M, Croest, information oh through various channels, Chief among those arresie!l was the "President" of the _communist organization, a youth of 25 el to be a "student" and having in his possession complete plans for a meeting that was to have taken place in the Public Gardens on Sept, 7 in commemoration of the signing of the Boxer Treaties.

Considerable literature of the usual type for banding out to the public was garnered together with manifesto of organization that showed the body to be well developed and divided into a series of committees among which were, Pro: paganda, Students, Labour, Peasant, Merchant, Finance, ete,, with each sub-organization formed to carry en communist missionary work in tie branches allotted.

Information was also received that led the police on Sept. 7 to a house on the Route Tenant do la Tour where was found a portable printing press supposedly used in preparing literature for the demons. tration of Sept. 2.

Much of the literature was not only anti-Kuomintang bat also ant Japanese and called on the wor to rise and destroy the "capitalists sand militarists."

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