The Archive · 1938

Japanese Liberals Merge Parties

Tokyo, Jan. 7.

Two Leftist organizations which escaped from last month's drive on radicals will hold a joint meeting to-morrow to make a formal decision on their amalgamation.

'The two bodies are the Federation of Japanese Farmers' Unions, headed Crown Asks for Time to Gain More Evidence case against Mr. William Morgan, better known as came up again before Mr. Haines, Registrar, in HM. Court but was Advocate, said that he had not yet been able to gather sufficient evidence to enable him to proceed with the case, and asked for a week's adjournment.

Mr. Morgan, it will be remembered, is being charged attempting to receive a quantity of stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen. He was arrested by the Japanese military water police on the afternoon of Christmes Day, and was kept in custody for several days before being handed over to the British consular authorities. by Mr. Bunji Suzuki, and the All- Her neck held in harness, Mrs. Japan Farmers' Union, led by Mr. Myrtle Arrington is resting in a hos-Motojiro Sugiyama, the latter having pital at Alexandria, Virginia, on January 5 decided to support the after giving birth to her nineteenth proletarian Social Masses Party, on baby, a bouncing nine-pound girl. the basis of opposition to the Comin- Mrs. Arrington recently broke her neck in a car crash near Alexandria.

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