The Archive · 1930

Red Propagandists Sentenced

The authorities in the three main parts of Shanghai continue rheic determined stand to suppress Communism and to eliminate agitators. both and by constables on At the Special District Court of four offenders charged with being in possession of quantities of scurrious literature, two were sentenced to one year's imprisonment, another received a sentence of 18° months, while the fourth was acquitted. The case against two students, who wrote slogans on walls, was remand-sine die.

On Sunday the Chapei police raided a house and seized a number of anti-Government newspapers and arrested one man.

Forty ex-employees of the Fren: h trams, who were dismissed as a condition of resumption by the other workers, met on Saturday and resolved that a delegation should be sent to Mr. Ta Yueh-sung, Frenca Municipal Councillor, to plead for his intercession with the authorities to secure their reinstatement.

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