REBUFF FOR PEER

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1933, Page 6

REBUFF FOR PEER

•i REFUSED ADMISSION TO JAPAN t 'peaks of communism held I - t TOKIO October 13. b The Japanese Ministry. of Home -■ Affairs to-day .took the drastic stop, of: 1 refusing admittance to this country to ? no less a personage than Lord Marley, t D.S.C., first baron of that name, - described as having been lord-in-wa.it-b ing to King George, Under-Secretary of the State for War, anj chief Gove;u_ 1 ment Whip in the House of Lords, ! and with an extensive war record to “ his credit. • Lord Marley and a Belgian comi panion, D. Albert Moltcaux, were barred from Japan because they were > suspected of being of radical tenden- ' cies if not indeed Communists. This * was because they intend, it is uncler- » stood, to attend a somewhat inysterious gathering, called Hie Anti-Im-r perialists, or Anti-War, Conference, s . that is supposed to be planned to be * held in Shanghai this autumn. They J were believed to be coining to Japan with the object of inducing some Jap- ) anese to attend the conference, and 5 that is the last thing the Japanese authorities would countenance. r Not much is known about the sup- ■ posed conference here, hut it is suspected. that the Third International is 1 probably behind it. Not only that, but it is to he held in Shanghai in the 1 midst of Chinese anti-Japanese .activi r hies. Naturally, therefore, it is .re'r garded her as being g. which to launch a fresh attack of-some sort against Japan even from its very title. RAPIDLY SPREADING MOVEMENT Moreover, the Japanese police have had their hands full in trying to contend with the rapidly spreading Communistic movement in this country, and anybody or everything savouring of radicalism or Communism, even to the slightest extent, it suspect at once. It was feared that Lord Marley, coming into contact with Japanese of such tendencies as might be ready to attend a conference of the nature .rumoured, would foment further trouble, and this was quite enough to l exclude him from this country, his I distinguished record in Britain to the contrary notwithstanding. The Foreign Office here has taken little interest in the matter, beyond expressing the belief that Lord Marley probably wished to meet a certain well-known proletarian writer, Kanju Ivato, and to induce him to attend the shanghai meeting, as representing Japan. Otherwise it left the matter to the Home Ministry to handle. »■ Lord Marley and his companion came from Shanghai as far as Kobe yesterday on Hie American liner President Cooiidge, where they were landed by the police and promptly turned about and sent off in the direction from which they came.

WATCH FOR ANOTHER VISITOR The Japanese police have been much exercised lately about the expected arrival of the American writer Theodore Dreiser,, who is accused of having Communistic leadings, on his way to the nebulous Shanghai conclave. He is reported tot be travelling 'secretly under an assumed name, and the police are keeping a sharp look-out for him', for fear that he may contaminate susceptible Japanese. Only to-day, also, the police deported another American, a youth named Alexander Buckman, of Cleveland, who has been in Tokio some weeks and admits having been in touch witth Japanese radicals. He is alleged to be a friend of still another American, a negro writer named Langston Hughes, who was deported some time ago, on the suspicion that lie was in Japan for no good' purpose, viz., to stir up Japanese Communists, especially as he came from Russia via the anti-Japanese hotbed in Shanghai. Angld-saxons in Tokio are wondering who will be the next.