The daily worker., 1927-04-02

as the exceptional power of the blows which are
being raned upon by the victory of the revolution
in Southern China the cause of the blind fren-
zied aggression of the Baldwin government.
The powerful lever of covert Intervention has
already been torn out of the hands of British imper
ialism. WI Pei-fu has been routed, Sun Chaun-fang
is also the Of defeat. Not because they like
it, did the British mperialists create state of war
not only in Shanghai but also in the capital of the
British Empire. "Not only the troops on the
move," writes the DAILY Herald" in its issue on
January 25, "but the war-drums are beating: war
talk is beginning" Commenting on the newspaper
report that the "scenes of Portsmouth barracks
evoked memories of 1914" the "Daily Herald" ex-
claims THAT is true word.'
What is the theatre of this Forthcoming war like?
Formerly it may have been thought that the
whole business will amount to defending a few
streets. Now it appears that it is matter of
front 21 miles long," writes one bourgeois news
paper in pointing out that it will necessary to de-
fend Shanghai. "But what is Shanghai?s asks
another newspaper and replies, ut is head, the
loss Of which will be rreparable, but for all that
head without a body is dead" 1914" consequent
ly does not apply to Shanghai but at least to the
whole of the Eastern Section of the Yangtse. J. ii.
Thomas was quite right when, in his speech at New
ton Abbot, he declared: II do not hesitate to say
prefer large army to be sent rather than hand
ful of soldiers" The British bourgeoisie has become
frenzied already that it will not hesitate to send
large army to China and consequently is prepared
to begin serious war unless the British working
class and the Chinese people put it in strait jacket
in time.
1t would he entirely wrong to believe, however,
that open violence is the only method British inn
periaism intends to employ in China While troops
being despatched the British government is play
ing complicated provocative game, with view to
splitting off certain of the leading groups of the
revolutionary movement, and is converting them into
a support for their rule in China. Macdonald with
his feigned indignation against military intervention
as matter of fact is aiding and abetting it, is being
used bait by the Baldwin government in order
to decoy certain section of the Kuomintang into
its trap. Moreover, it is not Ramsay Macdonald alone
that has been given the honorable part Of a worm
on the hook of Intervention.
The Manchester Guardian" and even the "Ob-
server, are zealousy angling for the national ele
ments of the revolution, which not infected with
Bolshevism. "The irony is' writes the observer"
Of January %, THAT British policy in its substance
entirely agrees with Mr.. Chen. The real difficulty
is that while Mr.. Chen agrees with Sir Austen
Chamberlain, they both hampered by misin-
formed pressure from their supporters Mr. Chen has
to his face before the bag and baggage prop
agandists on whose political support he is depend
ent. Sir Austen has to contend with die-hard ig-
norance whose natural bend is towards the use of
force" Is it necessary to add that a these inter-
mediares, bourgeois and reformists, guarantee Mr..
Chen the complete liberation of Sir Austen from the
influence of bad counsellors immediately he, Mr..
Chen, breaks his compromising connection with the
"propagandists?"
This game Of double dealing has gone far that
in the height Of the preparations that are being