In the following months there was considerable discussion in the press about Russia and the possible implications of developments in that country for Siam. Early in September, for example, Thai mai published an article describing the horrors of the Russian system with specific emphasis given to the destruction of religion, and it was implied that similar things might happen in Siam as conmmunism was being spread around the world by agents in the pay of Moscow In a similar vein, the Bangkok Times claimed that Russia and the Third International were at work in Siam. Sayam num reported a story appeared in Si krung one of its rivals, which talked of the wealth of new ideas" in Russia, and suggested that this view reflected government thinking." Another newspaper, the Bangkok Daily Mail, while not specifically talking about conmunism, intimated that the government was conducting itself in a dictatorial manner, and claimed that the public was kept in the dark about its intentions.
During the same period, there was also a good deal of what was described in the press as communist activity. One such instance of this took place at the end of September, when a group calling itself "Communist Party of Siam and the Communist Young Party of Siam" denounced the government in a flood of cyclostyled leaflets, printed in Thai, English and Chinese, that were distributed in the capital and a number of provincial centres