That the Communists are still at work trying to win over to their side the private in the regular army is convincingly demonstrated by an incident which took place but a few days ago. When the Communists made their drive from Wunan and endeavoured to take the rail head, the town of Shivkuan, troops of General Pei Chung-hsi were brought up to Canton by boat and then sent by train to Shipkuan to reinforce the defenders of that city. Several hundreds of the soldiers have deserted, and are now in the pay of the Reds.
Here in Canton' the radicals are active enough to keep life from growing monotonous, Since the third of the. month the following Incidents have furnished items. of more than passing interest'—tfre.
"at home" and is now now a guest in the City Prison. Lai Yuen-yat, secretary in the office of the Kuomintang's National Central Executive Committee at Nanking, was apprehended by the police on the ith. Evidently his radical connec tions were not known to the authorities at.the capital, but Mr. Lai' name appears on the roster of the Comminist Party which fell into the hands of the Police Department many month ago, and that fact alone was sufficient to bring about the secretary's detention. Again the attention of the police is being directed towards the ricsha coolies, and their places of abode have been searched, and on the 6th five of these coolies were arrested and are being held as Red suspects. The police have also been making raids on the lodging places of various individuals who once held membership cards in the old Union of Railway Employees, and two or three arrests were made.
Now and then the Communists manage to distribute a few batches of Soviet propaganda sheets, and the government is afraid that they may attempt to pass out circulars fon the birthday of Confucious, for the reason that many schoolboys will be about on that day handing out, pamphlets in praise of China's great sage. Therefore, it has been decreed that no one may engage in the distribution of any sort. of printed matter unless he has first Provided himself with a badge i sued by some society officially recognized by the government,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.