The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
JAPANESE SPEED PLOTS
TO ENSLA We MONGOLIA

golian government" Then follows
the allegation that Moscow is man.
utacturing and spreading rumors tc
the effect that Japanese nationals
are organizing plot against the
local (Chinese) authorities in Har-
bin" In this sort of propaganda
they are abetted by such British i'm
perialist papers as the Shanghai
North China News"
This daily makes a practice of
printing scores of articles in each
issue covering conditions in various
parts of the country, the articles
being headed: From a correspon-
dent" Another device is that of
declaring that a traveller" states
So-and-so. The names of such con-
trlbutors are not given so there is
no way of determining how much of
such news is actually sent in to
them and how much is fabricated in
the editorial office In any case
these articles reveal the policy of
the interests which the newspaper
represents and are therefore sig
nificant.
In this connection it is interest
ing to note that this organ of British
Imperialism stands unreservedly
back of Japanese imperialism in the
Iatter's hostile attitude towards the
revolutionary government of the
Soviet Union. When a party of in
surgent Mongolian troops cut the
Chinese Eastern Railway IN August
this paper fastened to assure it's
readers that the annexation by the
U. S. S. R. of that section of Man
churia where the attack occurred
was already an accomplished fact,
secondly, that Outer Mongolia was
of course, merely camouflage for
Moscow and, thirdly, that this sit
uation appears to be viewed seri-
ously by the Japanese government,
which fears some complications may
arise between Russia and China"
1t then quotes the Tokyo "Asahi" as
declaring that ''in such a contin-
gency Japan feels it must take
some proper and effectual steps for
the maintenance of peace in the
Three Eastern Provinces MAN
churia).
Self-Contradictory
However, the press agents of the
imperialists are often careless in
the publicity they turn out, es-
'pecially in overlooking the printing
of contradictory accounts. Thus in
the same issue of the DAILY News"
in fact, in the same column-it
tells how four tribes in that section
declared their independence Gin
league with the (Chinese) National
list Government" The daily, more
over, specifically states that this
fact has been "ascertained." In
other words the Shanghai Daily
News" has Investigated and found
out that its own story, featured
with headlines, of the "Red" Hand
in Inner Mongolia is absolutely
false. The Shanghai Times" the
other British imperialist organ,
publishes a story by its Hardin
correspondent that puts quite a diff
ferent aspect to this Chinese Mon
golian trouble. He declares that
"the question is whether the Mongol
uprising is purely a local incident
or whether the invaders have been
instigated and financed by some
other nation which wants to cause
trouble in Manchuria. He then alb
solves the Soviet Union from COM
plicity. Considering that the So
Wet Union has half share in the
railway, it is hardly likely Chat
they would do harm to a line which
is giving them handsome profit
and therefore to find an instigator
it is necessary to look elsewhere"
Where else to look the article as
printed did not state, but there can
be only one other source-and that
is Japan.
The outside world may deem such
conclusion far fetched. To any,
one who has kept in touch with this
years developments of the conflict
between Japan and China, on the
one hand, and between the imperial
list powers in their rivalry for the
hegemony of the Orient, the vicious,
under-handed scheming and plotting
of the ultra-reactionary Tanaka
Government is quite plain. 1t is
evident that Japanese imperialism
will hesitate at nothing, even to
plunging the peoples into a new
world war-to accomplish it's ends.
Nor must the close connection be
overlooked between this growing
hostile attitude of Japan towards
the Soviet Union and the British
plans for the latter's enlightenment by
powers. The disasters
which may be involved in just such
a policy as that illustrated in the
case of Mongolia is the price which
the Japapese must pay for British
support In the Far East