The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16


HANKOW, April 15.-A few days
ago British and American gunboats
fired on the defenseless city of Nan
king.
At the same time foreign troops,
already landed at Shanghai, shot
down unarmed workers.
At the same time British airplanes
bombared Kwangtung villages.
At the same time British sailors
killed number of Chinese at Chung
king.
Every day brings the report of
some such incident. You in America
do not hear these incidents. They
are not reported in glazing headlines
by the foreign press in China con-
trolled by the foreign powers and
they are not cabled to the newspapers
abroad.
News Distorted.
You in America hear Of incidents
in China, but only of those selected
incidents that can be made to twist
the truth in such a way that Ma
tionalist China, an awakening coun-
try struggling heroically to break
away from the fatal letters of feudal
military and economic imperialist op-
preston, appears as an aggressor
against the west.
Therefore the Chinese people ap-
peal directly to you, the people Of
Of America. The Chinese people
want you to know the real situation
Of this land so that you can judge
for yourselves if the policy being
conducted from your capitol is not a
treacherous dual policy which may
provoke on the Pacific coast a catas-
trophe so bloody that the most hor-
rible years of the past decade viii
seem to be mere child's play.
Struck For Freedom.
The civil war now going on be-
tween the north and south is strug-
gle for national freedom, the same
freedom for which America has
waged two great wars one against
the degrading status of colony, an
other against an economic system
which rested upon human slavery.
China today, as America, is fighting
for democracy, independence, unfit
cation, and reconstruction.
In China today, as in America IN
her great national crises, ninety-nine
out of every hundred people are sup
porting the forces Of freedom against
the forces of slavery, the sovereign
rights of the country against the
cynical violence of the international
financiers. China is fighting for civil
rights as opposed to feudal depend
ence, for the improvement of the
economic status of the great masses
Of people, who are today suffering
from poverty so extreme as to be
beyond the comprehension of the
American people. In China people
are starved and dressed in rags and
patches, housed in novels so wretched
that the worst tenements of the West
seem comfortable by comparison.
China is fighting to lift the people
out of this degradation. She is fight
ing to bring enlightenment in place
Of superstition.
Decaying Feudalism.
Her struggle is a struggle between,
on the one hand. industrial develop
ment, which can bring the people out
of the depths, and on the other hand,
the decay Of feudal economy, strug
gle between honesty on one hand and
political corruption on the other.
China's people are hungry for this
liberation. Since the Nationalist Re
volutionary army, the small but in
vincible force of emancipation, left
the borders of Kwangtung Province
they have destroyed in a few months
three of the most powerful militarist
groups in China-We Pei-fu, Sun
Chuan-fang, and Chang Tsung-chang.
Thus half Of China, including such
rich centers as Wuhan, Shanghai and
Marking have been cleared of the
enemies of the nationalist revolution
by few fighting thousands battling
against enemy forces infinitely SUI
perior in numbers and arms and back
ed by the agents of the imperialistic
powers.
viii Win.
These great victories could have
been won in few brief months only
by the sympathy and support of the
people of China. This sympathy and
support make the Nationalist forces
unconquerable. In three more months
the banner of Nationalist China viii
be plainly planted in Picking.
It is the hatred of the slave-owner
toward the slave who is challenging
a lot Of callous as that Of an animal
and daring to ask freedom and equal
ity and glimpse at some beauty Of
the world.
English Brutality
From England the Chinese people
do not expect understanding support.
England's hands are too stained with
Chinese blood. To crush China Eng
land will go any lengths. She would
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