The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04

THERE are more reasons than the fact that Great
Britain has over sixty million pounds invested in
Shanghai to make the British mperalists deadly
enemies of the onward sweeping Chinese revolution.
The southwestern frontiers Of this revolution meet
the northwestern frontiers of the Indian Empire.
Within the frontiers of that Empire, $50 million
people have been held in subsection for many gen
eratiOns by British Imperialism which is so
scared the prospects Of the effects of vctori
GUS Chinese revolution.
AS a writer in the Empire Review says in an
article "rhe Indian Swaraj and World Politics;
Spreading she does from the frontiers of Burma
to the Pacific, a strong China might easily become
menace to Southern Asia" This is stating the
mildly, so permit Lord Weston, ex-Indian Gov
ernor to say his say. Spreading himself over three
columns of the Tory paper, "The Sunday Express,
he says-in contemplation Of the passing Of Shang-
hal into the hands of the National Revolutionary
forces-"If Shanghai falls it will not be Shanghai
alone that shall have lost Throughout the entire
Eastern world Interpretation and one interprea
ton only will be put upon such catastrophe, namely
that Western civilization has been defeated by orr
entail natonaisTn." He goes on to say: Every
blunder, every hestancy every weakness our
part in China goes running down the whispering
galleries of Asia and weakens our whole position
in the East"
He is especially concerned with India for here he
goes on to say that there is persistent under
world of restless fanatical hatred Of the West and
all that it implies in India" He concludes "That
a weak vacillating policy in China is a danger,
with which most closely allied, to reconcile
all thinking Englishmen to the measures that
now being taken"
Slaves in Burma"
In another Tory organ of the bourgeois press,
Lord Birdwood protests against any possibility Of
the reduction of the military budget of India and
the world against the Bolshevik menace.
Still more direct in its relation to the important
events developing in China is visit Of the British
DARN Of IN Tho Rritic hay
suddenly discovered that in Burma there are slaves
to be liberated and expeditions are sent there to
abolish slavery in this benighted country and in
cidentallyi to make military inspection of the
frontier of Burma which borders the frontier of the
Chinese revolution.
All these facts point conclusively the fear which
reigns in the minds of British imperialists
corning this mighty revolutionary movement. And,
Of course, they have good reason to be alarmed.
For ten years they have seen the U.S.S.R. emerging
from its difficulties, growing in strength, and by
it's very existence inspiring the peoples of the East
to gather their forces and rise for the liberation
of the masses from the power of imperialism. To
see this mighty revolutionary movement extending
to the millions in China who in the process of
their struggle realise und more that the great
friend of their liberation is the organised Dictator
ship of the proletariat in the U.SS.R., is driving
them to a state of hystera.
They know that liberated China must perforce
beckon to the millions of India, Egypt, Palestine
countries watching every step forward of the
Chinese National Army, and stepped in hundred
years of experience of chow to deal with the Ash
atics," they feel themselves impelled to discard
even the semblance of liberalism in their policy
and to attack the Chinese revolution with all their
force They regard the Asiatics as slaves and have
determined that slaves they shall remain
In the process they perpetrate blunder after
blunder and outrage upon outrage, not one of
which passes unnoticed by the teeming millions OF
these countries. The Indian masses, for example,
know full we'll their own experiences under British
rule. They know the precautions they have
endured from their overlords and when they see
the Chinese National Army marching from victory
to victory when they that the atrocities OF
Shanghai, of Wanhsien, and Of Marking are unable
to deter the revolution but the contrary arouse
the masses TO more powerful organised action, then
this is at once inspiration and lesson conveying
new perspectives for their own future.
Warning Voice.