The Archive · 1928

LOCAL COMMUNISTS'

CELEBRATIONS

A Quiet Day Except for Leaftets and Poster Pasting As November 7 was the anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Republic, local communistic bodies were more busy than usual and though several meetings were held in Shanghai little of importance to the authorities transpired other than a spasmodic distribution of perature of the usual communistic:

Late the previous evening leafers were thrown from the Roof Garden 5 the Paradise World on Foochow Rood bearing the following slogans:

Let us set up a labourer's and peasant's soviet government.

Let us overthrow the _Kuomintang who are simply the tools of the "Imperialists, Let us restore di Let us oppose the World War being planned by the Imperialists, Let us support Soviet United. States.

Yesterday pro-Soviet leaflets bearing similar sentiments were thrown from a motor ear on Broad-and others were found on Garden Bri \dditional leaflets were found in tramcars in the Yangtzepoo District and on Yangchow Road. Large posters of various colours were also found parted on walls and electric light poles on Yangtzepoo, Yangchow and Wetmore Roads,

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