14 APRIL 1928, Page 2

The Japanese Government has ordered the dissolution of Communist organizations.

The Communist leaders have been arrested and will be brought to trial. The Tokyo correspondent of the Times says that the authori- ties had discovered systematic efforts—though it is not asserted that the number of Communists was large—to form cells of Communism among all the discontented industrial elements. The purpose was to start a social upheaval .in Japan as part of a world-wide revulution. The suspicions of the police were aroused when forty Communist candidates presented themselves at the elections though it was known that the party was short of funds. Money had been received from abroad. No accusation, - however, is made against the Russian Embassy in Tokyo. * a a *