Shanghai, Nov, 23.
A_well-oprantzed Communist propaganda machine, whose tentacles had reached almost into every hamlet of the province, was discovered by the Japanese military authorities following the occupation of Taiyuan, Japanese Army spokesman said yesterday.
The organization, he added, was attached to the Eighth Route Army but was entirely independent of the other branches of the former Communist Army.
"Cells," consisting usually of about ten men and women each, were established, according to the spokesman, in every town and village in Shans! and were extremely active in propagating anti-Japanese and Com-mounist. ideas.
"The headquarters of the propaganda organization in Taiyuan were headed by about 10 Chinese sent to China by the For Eastern Department of the Third Internationale, and a few Russians, the spokesman asserted.
Tue Kwangsi branch of the Centrat Bank will be formally opened business on January 1, 1098, states a dispatch to the Chinese press. The manager and vice-manager of the branch bank, Messrs. Wu Yen and Wu Kwangenfing, arrived in Kweilin on Nov.
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