The Archive · 1935

Red Leader Captured

Peiping, May 11.

Chinese dispatches from Foochow [state that Chu Chin-pai, one of the intellectual leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, has been captured by the Government forces at Changting. Fukien, and brought to Lung: yen under a heavy armed escort for trial.

Chu, who is a native of Changchow, Kiangsu, graduated from the Russia Language Schoo! in ping in 1920, In the same inter he was sent by the then "Peking Chen Pao" to Russia to cover the Communist situation there. He spent two years in Russia Jand joined the Third International Upon his return to China he became an active members of the Communist Party. In 1924 when the Kuomin-long was reorganized under the di-ection of M. Borodin, he joined the Kuomintang and was elected a member of the Central Executive Com. mittee.

He was expelled from the Kuomintang in 1927 as a result of the arly purge started by General Chiang Kai-shek and since then he has agitated against the Kuomintang. Chu is a very able writer and. prow Dagandist and has translated many books by Russian authors into Chi-hose. He is in his early forties Reuter.

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