The Archive · 1937

Japanese Leader of Reds Here

Japanese Consular sleuths were ro~ ported on June 17 by the "Shanghai Nippo" to be combing the city search for a leader of the reorganized Japanese Communist party, who was ald to have sneaked into' Shanghai under the assumed name of Mu, The Red leader, the daily said, Is, now engaged in an effort to revive the Japanese Communist Party, vir= tually rubbed out by a succession of police raids. The most notable" of these raids were carried out on March 15, 1928; April 16, 1929; and in the early Spring of 183}.

Although the man escaped from the surveillance of the special political police section of the Metropolitan Police "Board, he was raced 10 Shanghai and the local Consular authorities were warned to be on a lookout for him nul was believed by the police to collaborating with the Korean @ependence Party or the Chinese Communist Party.

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