JAPANESE COMMUNISTS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1928, Page 2

JAPANESE COMMUNISTS

CAUSE A SCARE. (United Service.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) TOKYO, April 10. The police have removed the ban on the publication ot' Communist raids of March Toth, in which upwards of seven hundred alleged Radicals were detained simultaneously. The Homo Ministry announced the dissolution of three left wing organisations, Ronoto or AYapon, former Labour Party, headed by Tjiio Oyama M.P.; Nihon Rodokiai Hvogikai or Japan Labour Council and Nihon Afusanseincn Domes or Proletarian Youths’ League. The Premier visited the Emjxiror today. presumably to report the same matter. Tt is revealed that the police acted as the result of evidence of Communist activity at the general election in February, when propagandists preached revolutionizing Japan and adopting a farmers’ and workers’ dictatorship. The Communist organisation was perfected oil December 4th. 1926 shortly before the death of the Emperor Taisho, also that a Japanese Branch of the Red Trade Union Internationale was formed in September 1927. It is understood those arrested include a considerable number of students and university graduates. The Red Trade Union Organisation included four hundred members who were acting as organisers in thirty-four provinces. Informed sources consider the whole was a Communist scare and that there was not in the. least any indication that the stability of the Japanese State was endangered. The police revelations failed to indicate any evidence that official Russia supported the Japanese Communist activities, and it is stated no strain on Russo-Japanese relations is expected.