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Show j Japanese Smash Plot for Communist Revolution RAIDERS SEIZE ,-370 SUSPECTS J III CONSPIRACY Leading Citizens Held 1 for Attempt at Uprising TOKIO, Dec. 22 (AP) Police Po-lice declared today their secret arrest of 370 suspected agita- tors had bared activities for a "general revolution based on communism." A member of parliament and ' several former university professors profes-sors wero held on suspicion of i conspiring In communist snd pacifist movements. They wera ' rounded up In a nationwide se-, se-, ries of raids at dawn last YVed-, YVed-, nesday. "The main point of their move-j move-j ment apparently was to lead a general gen-eral revolution based on communism," com-munism," the metropolitan police ' board said. Opposed China War "Since the outbreak of the Chinese incident they have used every opportunity op-portunity to spread antiwar propaganda propa-ganda throughout the nation. "Therefore the authorities have been forced to arrest those who violated vio-lated the peace preservation law, disputed the private property ays- - tern and sought to change the state 1 structure." I Police declared three organlsa-1 organlsa-1 tions the labor-farmer party, the I proletarian party and the all-Japan t council of labor farmer unions di- reeled the alleged movements. ) The home ministry immediately j ordered dissolution of the three par-1 par-1 ties as disturber of ths peace. Po-, Po-, lice said they confiscated radical J literature, documents and informa-I informa-I tion on leftist movements through- out the world in a raid on their headquarters. j Seeks Link te U. S. News reports by the communist party In the United States, police asserted, were sent to Japan. They said seized documents showed a program of opposition to fascism and war: cooperation in worldwide social democratic movements; move-ments; instruction to snaps campaigns cam-paigns to conditions in various na-j na-j tions, and employment of legal i methods for fostering their activi- ties wherever possible. An effect of lie last measure, they aaid. were proletarian demands for regular labor wages for soldiers in i ths Chinese campaign, attempts to I force commodity prices up and cf-i cf-i forts to influence Japan's interna- tional policy. Educators Arraeted Kanju Kato, a member of parlia-J parlia-J ment and chairman of the executive , committee of the proletarian party, was one of those arcested. Four former university educators known to have been arrested were Tsuano Inomata and Kanson Arahata, formerly for-merly of Waseda university; Gaitro Omoro, former Tokio university professor, pro-fessor, and Itsuro Sakisaka of Kyushu Kyu-shu Imperial university. Mosaburo Suxuki. member of the Tokio municipal assembly: Inosuke, a noted author, and other leaders of the three parties also were taken prisoner. The largest group, 180 persons, was arrested in Tokio. Only two women were known to have been arrested. They were ' Baroness Shisue Ishimoto. widely known in the United States, and Taiko Hirabayashi, a writer. The baroness, a gradaute of the Peeress' school, is a director and editor of the Japanese Women's En-cyclopaedism. |