Open Activities. During Past Year Greater Than Preceding Twelve Months: Cells at Work in Shanghai Schools Three years ago Chiung Kai-shek dedily picked up the government of 'China and removed it from Hankow to Nanking, thug removing it at tone stroke from the influence of Torodin and the Soviet. henchmen 'The gesture was meant to be death warrant for Communi 'And from that, day the object of the Communists' campaign changed. Three years ago they struck at foreigners and the Peking government. To-day their target is the Nanking Government, It cannot be gain said that the Communist movement is strong. Feeding upon the opportunities presented by civil war and the: relaxation of authority, the om ization has set itself out to make Apart from the time when Communist Party conducted its activities. openly, fall advent to power of the Kuen tong in 1927, its propaganda is at resent better organized than it was, riy period since the movement was Cost started, Observations for the last few years further indicate that the Communists have succeeded in: winning the sympathy of a considerable portion of the immature: 'Chinese students within whose yanks propaganda is furthered under the guise of such secret fasvociations as the "Anti-impel Histie Youth Lengue™ and "The Human Mutual' Aid Society," and the "Federation of Labour Uni Tu many of the smaller schools in Shanghai there is a cil" composed of twenty or more ents whowe del ite purpose to study the, ways and means propagatinis communism. One survey of an examination form w illustrate the popular trend student thought.
How many. handbills di you dse wer at_ the hast demonstration?
what manner did You, dis triliate" hem and how from sour fast method of What "War the yeuct people whom' you watched tea Huw did" you etude the regard te more effective and. wide of windows by stone throwing. Attacks were made on the offices of several Chiviese newspapers and vehicles on.the streets belonging to the Shanghai Tramway Company. Measures taken by the Municipal Police in their efforts to suppress Communism included the raiding of about 51 communist cells and the: arrest of 294 persons, of whom 25)
wed over to the Chinese for participating " in demonstrations, distributing literature and kindred offences. In addition, the premises of four addresses, of which three were Chinese "educations! institutions, were scaled by order of the Prosional Court.
During the last quarter the Communists have been more active than at any time since Gen. Chiang. Kai-shek "overthrow their old A. summary of their open activities during the last three: months, not only in Shanghai but also throughout China, shows that in that period they have been as as during the whole of the receding twelve months, In January this year, on the anniversary of the wiurder of Karl Liebkneck and Rosa Luxemburg, and the death of Lenin, the Chinese police shot and wounded several workers in quelling a riotous demonstration in native territory.
Av noon some days Inter the workers of the Commercial Press wore leaving the factory premises in Chapel when some 20 students approached them and distributed communist handbills among them and shouted slogans, The agitators disappeared when the police arrived.
January 18 fifty students made 2 lightning appearance on North Szechuen Road with the usual anti-kuomintang and anti-imperialistic disappeared into nearby alley On Jancary 19, 200 students Ioitered on Nanking Road west of Fukien Road and eleven of them were arrested for distributing literature. Awong them wax one girl.
For the purpose of fac propagation of its In February the local communists directed their atte inky towards the abso the Thai into seven districts, he., Central, Northern, Western, Eastern, Prench Concession and Nantao, Woosung, und Pootung. Tt is claimed that there are at present in Shanghai over 400 registered Communiat agents spread over these various districts.
During last October, raids ted to the discovery of the Headquarters the Anti-mperiaiistic Youth League and a branch of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Kinngsu Province and veeulted in the arrest of five per= Sons who were sentenced at the Provisional Court. Apart from these arrests the Municipal Police Arrested three persons in conncetion with the distribution of Com monistic literature and the chalking of walls of slogans of a. similar ture. During Fast October two attempts at, demonstration Communists and—their student puppets occurred in the Settlement. On October 27 a crowd of 300
Chinese, mostly students, demonstrated' on Tiendong Road and Fuluh Road in the Hongkew Dist for the pi against the alleged are: of a The same month that a new society entitled "The Shanghai Disbandment Co-operative Association" was established in the "Kuomintang Meadquarters, Ling Ying Road, West Gate, on Getober 1, for the purpose of con-Avcting and compiling propaganda.
Local Chinese communists sought during 1929 to further the object of their party and arouse hostility to the National Government. by demonstrations and the disseminaseventh anniversary of the Peking Hankow Railway Worker's Strike of February 7. A number of our agitators were arrested and executed by the Chinese authorities Hupeh. Literature was surreptitiously distributed from the] first of the month to Febr 'There were two student demonstration on February' 7. A motor-truck carrying a group of Chinese students singing an Keomintang slogans appeared on North Szechuen Road. One student swashed the window of a Japanes The appearance of the police their rapid disappearance.
Chinese students assembled Boulevard de Montigny and Avenue edward VIL. shouting slogans, and' held up an omnibus. Atter routing all the passengers in the bus they began smashing the windows but the French Police arrived and arrested 14 of the mob including. three girls. Of some 50 different Kinds of pamphlets found during the months of February the big majority emanated from the Kiangse Executive Committee of the "Chinese Communist Youth Group and for the most part dealt with the February 7 anniversary. Several dwelt on the revolutionary movements in Annam, Korea, and India, A few purported to emanate from a secret body - whose object the forees of Law Only in the larger towns in the interior where a strong military force is maintained is there a ensure of security from the Reds ho go to school to learn th ieans of destruction and who are: tion of this propaganda, 'They attempted on forty occasions to eld these demonstrations in. the Settlement, where handbills of no Jess than' five hundred different K: nds were found. The Communists were responsible for a number murders committed in industefal an attempt to set fire toa japer office, and the smashing amply paid for their simple work, nttaenting. alnamen into Chinese mind. I some areas the smaller towns are at the merey of bards of Commenists, while some country, sare completely under" their iron rule. Kiangsi cities have hoon captured and recaptured daring tne last two years, the foreigners driven out, Rouses
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