Propaganda material, printed in Korean and Japanese, and sent into Korea by various routes, were never distributed but promptly destroyed or used as waste paper—only one body exerted itself in a half-hearted manner, namely an association of young men who call themselves, communists but who work according to their own plans instead of el serving those of Moscow headquarters.
At the time of the great floods in Korea, one instalment of 200,000 yen was' received by these Korean bodies, but the flood victims received. very little of it, the greater portion of the money suing into the pockets. of the members of the committees, Thus, when the Japanese police recently arrested a man named Kim weiehd, acting upon informa tion received from Korean sources, they found he had, with others, received money from the Soviet overnment, and that 20,000 yen was placed by him to his own personal credit in a Korean bank, On account of the inability of the Koreans to conform strictly to come munistic plans, the Soviet consul at Seoul and Comrade Kavakhan ing have strongly recommended Moscow to stop all subsidies Korean bodies until they are in a position to chscrve Soviet plans both in the letter acd spirit, In the informed observers, take Moscow avery long time to Korean mind from of Rassicn communists, Crude and Unprofessio show how crude and unprofessional are the Koreans in the mat ter of distributing propaganda, the seoul police recently arrested 10 young Koreans for propago distribution. These youths eirculat= ed some 500 postcards bearing comes and upon the police confiscating these postcards, they circulated a thousand other cards bearing other comniunistie mottoes. Now, the real Red docs.
ing of the kind, according to the Soviet consul at Seoul and the Soviet Ambassador at Peking. The real Red distributes his propaganda stut on the quiet, while nobody Tooking. He dues not send pro: Paganda mate: through—the mails, much less does he use post= card No, the Korean mind is not yet fertile for ccnmunistic knowledge. service in Jzpan will be instituted on Janvary 20, when the Kyobashi exchange in Tokyo is to begin the fe telephones on ap vf the total num.
SLi. There ure 6162 telephones s de Kyobashi exe gfckanye, sid 3,000 will be auto-
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