The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-27

ficials at HankOw. Either the
government gave out this state
ment to draw public attention
from the war preparations and
to alIay public alarm or else the
refusal of the other powers to
accede to Britain's request for
joint action compelled the gov
eminent tomake concessions.
Jockeying For Position.
It is also ,ossible that Britain is
seeking to jockey itself into a more
favorable position with public opin-
ION and creatAA the impression that it
is resorting to every expedient to
avert war in the hope that it can
throw the onuJ of hostilities on the
Cantonese and go to the country for
popular sanction with the story that
it is waging a defensive war, an ex-
cuse that proved servieeable in 1914.
The conduct of the Japanese in re-
fusing the British request for CO.
or Grafton has n5e aroused as much
anger in government circles as the
action of the United States. Japan
has been KNOWN to be hostile to
Britain since the Anglo-Japanese AL
Lance was ditchcd ct the Washing
ton Arms Conference in return for
promise of Anglo-British cooperation
in world politics. Britain now feels
that her diplomats purchased a cat in
the bag.
Chang On The Market.
There are reports current here that
the attempt of the British to pur-
chase Chang who is said to
have been bounced off the Japanese
payroll, has failed, Changes son, hav-
ing made a declaration that the
northern forces were willing to make
q united front with the Cantonese to
drive out the imperialists. 1t is be-
lieved that Chang was talking thru
his son and that Japan was turning
the crank of the graphaphone.
The British cabinet met today to
hear lengthy report on the Chin
csc situation by Austen Chamberlain.
1t is understood that the refusal of
the United States to take joint ac-
ton in China was given serious con-
sideration.
HindOOs Oppose Sending Troops.
The radicals in the Indian Assem-
lily introduced motion over the pro-
test of the government protesting
against the governments assent to
Britain's dispatch of Indian troops to
China. The governor general then
disallowed the motion on the ground
that it was detrimental to the public
interest" Thus the British represen-
tative in India gave further proof of
che futility of the Indian parliament.
The Indian newspaper Forward
protests against sending troops to-
make war on the Chinese "thus maxi
ing India the unwilling instrument
for perpetuating the slavery of
China" branding the troops "assas-
sins hired to perpetuate greed"
British Official Replies.
The British Empire Broadcasting
Company, a government monopoly,
tonight put on the air a speech by
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lester, president
of the Board of Trade, in which Sir
Philip attacked Eugene Chen, the
Cantonese Foreign Minister, for his
attack on British Imperialism.
The speaker repeated the protesta-
tons made by the British government
in the early days of the late world
war that "the British empire does not
seek to extend its borders by one sin
gle inch in any quarter of the world"
Sir Philip declared there was nothing
or aggressive in the
tory governments policy. Britain
had no other aim in China than to
help the Chinese and protect British
subjects. Unfortunately for Sir
Philip and his empire the Chinese can
point to the graves Of their dead,
killed by British bullets fer proof to
the contrary.