The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
Soviet Union Protests
Picking Embassy Raid
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The unprecedented violation of
Russia's diplomatic rights has stirred
even the foreign legation. The Dutch
minister has handed a note of protest
to the Picking government, declaring
that the raids on the Soviet embassy
exceeded the rights Of the northern
government.
Marshal Chang Tso Lin, northern
war lord and puppet Of the foreign
imperialists, has issued statement
attempting to justify the violation of
Soviet diplomatic immunity.
Fate OmihOus.
"Those arrested will be duly tried"
he states, ut must be pointed out
that these rebellious elements respon-
sible for the dissemination of Boil
shevism have wrought harm to the
people and the nation that is unpar-
donable."
Chang Tso Lin has been making
every effort to forestall revolution
in the north. With the help of the
imperialist powers, he has been wag-
ing campaign of terror in an effort
to retain his hold on the northern
provinces. Workers, students, peas
ants, merchants who have dared to
protest against Changes corrupt and
unofficial dictatorship have been
promptly executed. A number of la
Dor leaders in Tientsin, port of Pek-
ing, were recently murdered by him.
Shanghai Consul Protests.
SHANGHAI, April 7.--Declaring
that they would hold the consular
body responsible for a raid on the
Soviet consulate in Shanghai, VIII
liam F. Linde, Soviet consul general,
protested against the Picking raid
when he called on the Norwegian con-
sular general here. The Norwegian
consul general is dean of the consular
corps in Shanghai.
Mr.. Linde, who was former charge
d'affaires in Picking said that the So
Wet Club was located in the embassy,
which accounted for the discovery
of Nationalist flags. The club is
decorated with the flags of various
nations, he said.
Dangerous Precedent.
He announced the Picking raid as
an act of vandalism which if APP
proved by the Picking Diplomatic
corps, as reported, set a precedent
endangering the foundation Of diplo-
matte prerogatives.
War Lord Holds Americans.
Two Americans are reported in
Picking dispatches to have been ode
tanned by Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian
war lord, because they published ar
ticles in magazines sympathetic to
the Nationalist cause. They are Mrs.
Mildred Mitchell of San Francisco
and Wilbur Burton. Mrs. Mitchell
has been editor of the Chungwei
News Agency, which was once a
Sino-American project and later sery-
ed as an organ of General Feng.
Nails Standard Oil Lie.
The Statement Of the American
Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai
demanding United States Intervention
in China was not authorized by the
membership of that organization. It
was learned by the Nationalist News
Agency today.
The executive committee compris-
ing the heads of the Standard Oil
Company and the British-American
Tobacco Company and a number of
banks prepared the petition. A men,
Der of the chamber said that the
statement was not submitted to the
membership. Fear of mourning the
criticism of the membership caused
the statement to be given to the cor
respondent on pledge from the lat
ter not to publish it locally.
Train Imperialist Guns On Hankow.
WASHINGTON, April T.. The
guns of twenty-one foreign warships
are concentrated on Hankow, consul
general Lockhart advised the state
department today. The possibility of
the Marking massacre looms close
with the concentration of imperialist
gunboats at Hankow, where a half
day strike has been declared as pro-
test against foreign Intervention.
Rush Troops To Tientsin.
Although the ultimate destination
Of the 1850 marines sailing from
San Diego will be decided by Admiral
G. S. Williams, according to Secre-
tary of Navy Wilbur, it is suspected
that they will be directed to Tientsin
in anticipation of the Nationalist
drive against Picking. The marines
left on board the transport Hender-
son this morning. They will be ac-
companed by two batteries of artil-
lery, an aviation detachment and a
draft of sailors for duty in Asiatic
waters.
The American note on the Marking
"outrages" has not yet been present.
ed to the Nationalist government. But
it is momentarily expected that it will
be.