'Tokyo, May 11, Five former leaders of the Japan Communist Party, who renounced their beliefs after' they were arrest fed, were sentenced to-day to terms of' hard labour ranging from eight to fifteen years by the Tokyo Court, of Appeals.
Included' among the convicted men was Manabu Sano, who was arrested in Shanghai in June, 1929, by the Japanese and Chinese police as was about to board a ship to attend the sixth annual conference of the Communist Internationale in Moscow. Sano was sentenced 10 fifteen years' penal servitude, tother with Sadachika Nabeyama ud Shire Mitamura. Sadaaki Taka-shi was given a term of nine years while Keiichi Sugiura witl have to serve eight years.
Sano, "an outstanding gute in Japanese Communist circles, was Selected.as a member of the permament central committee of the First Communist Party of Japan, when it was founded in 1922. "He was then a professor of political "economy at 'Waseda University 'After serving ten months on a charge of sedition, Sano was elect fed member of the central commit. tee of the party. He then" became editor-in-chief of the "Musansha Shimbun," party newspaper. He. lived in' Shanghai from May. 1924, to July, 1925.—Rengo.
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