The Archive · 1937

Alleged Communist Plot

Tokyo, Dec. 22

Following nationwide arrests on attempt to stamp out an alleged plot to establish a Communist regime in Japan, police here to-day detained for questioning Baroness Shizue Ishimoto. Tt was understood she had not been accused of taking part the radical movement but. was be-Vieved able to give information "regarding the extent of the movement because of her wide acquaintances among the "Modernists" and similar The Social Mass Party meanwhile expelled from membership Messrs. Suehiro Yoshikawa, Hiso Kuroda and Toshio Onisth after deciding to renovate the party. Reasons for the expulsions were not clear, but it was presumed they were connected with the widespread arrests of radicals—United Press.

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