HAS LEFT JAPAN.
Mr Max Bickerton Sails
for Canada
FOREIGN OFFICE INTERVENES'. United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 12, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON June 11. Mr Max Bickerton, the Christchurchborn school teacher who was charged in Japan with Communistic activities, has left Japan aboard the liner Empress of Tapan, which is due in \ ancouver on June 20. The Toreign Office is arranging for his landing and friends in London have guaranteed his passage to England.
Mr Bickerton, a grandson of the late Professor Bickerton, was alleged to have given financial aid to the proscribed Japanese Communist Party and to have applied for membership of the party. The last information received from Japan regarding Mr Bickerton stated that he had been released on bail after being for some weeks in a Japanese prison.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20329, 12 June 1934, Page 1
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