THE COMMUNISTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 April 1928, Page 5

THE COMMUNISTS

ACTIVITIES IN JAPAN

; a POLICE ROUND UP

KCN'DRCRS OF ARRKSTS

|On lied Press Association—By Electric | Telegraph -Copyright United Service

TOK 10. 10th Apt il I Ihe Police ieiih,\od the ban on the publication of the CoinmumsT raids of the lot ii hi Mat ch, in which upwards of t 700 alleged Radicals were detained si in -

1 ultaneouslv. The Hume Ministry lias announced : the dissolution oil three left wing ; organisations, the Runoto. or Japan s ; tormei Labour Baity, headed hv Ijno jOyama, M.P. ; the Nihon Rtslokiai • llyogikai, or the Japan Labour Council ; and ihe Nihon Mlisallreineii Dollies ,*r j the Proletarian Youths' League. 'file Premier visited the F.mperor t<* day. | prertumibly to report on the same mat -

It has been revealed that the police acted a> tin* result of evidence of Communist activity during the (leneral Ejection of February, when propagate! tsts preached the revolutionising of Japan and Hie adoption of a Farmers' and Workers' Dictatorship. Ihe Communist organisation was perfected on 4th December. 1926.

\ Japanese branch ui the Red Trade Union Internationale was formed in Septemlter. 1927. It is understood i hat those a nested include a considerable number of students anil university graduates. ’Hie Red trade union organisation included 400 members who were acting as organ Uers in 36 provinces. informed sources consider that the Communist- sc,a re is not in tin* least an indication (hat the stability of ihe Japanese State is endangered. The police revelations failed to indicate any evidence of nliiciai Russian itppnrt of the Japanese ( ominnnist activities, and it is stated that no strain *,ri Russ,.-Japanese relations is expected.