The Archive · 1933

Sailors Find Pamphlets in Match-Boxes

a result of preliminary invesations by the Public Procurator attached to the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai, following an. early morning raid onthe Tung Wen College, Hungjao Road, four out of twenty students. arrested were sent to Nagasaki on June 16 for trial on charges of communist activities.

The lifting of a press ban at mid-on: June 20 by the local Jap ese authorities revealed many inter: cating details of alleged comm Propaganda work by Japanese ents of the college, where 18 youths were taken into custody fter two others had been taken ald on a Chinese hotel. taurants are said to have of the methods of distributing com: munist literature among men of the Jepanese Naval Landing Party.

Ax long ago ax November, 1930, state the authorities, local residents of communist incl organised a group called the Japanese League for Struggle" and scattered "handbills among the sailors of the Japanese Landing Party and visiting cadets of the Japanese Imperial Navy. During the months of December, 1939, and January 1991 thirteen Communist Suspects, students and graduates of Tong Wen College, were arrested, of whom five were formerly charied and sent to prison,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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