The daily worker., 1929-11-29

Chinese Eastern Railway.
These conditions are: the
restoration of the status quo
ante (the situation of both
China and the Soviet in joint
management of the Chinese Eastern
Railway before the violation of the
treaty by China's seizure of the
line at the incitation of the imper-
ialists); the reappointment of the
Soviet railway officials who were in
charge at the time; and the release
of the thousands of Soviet citizens
Chinese authorities had imprisoned
and tortured as a provocation
against the Soviet Union after
breaking off of relations.
On receipt of the acceptance OF
its terms, Commander Bluecher OF
the Far Eastern Red Army has been
instructed to discontinue the adj
vance of Red troops who had
launched a punitive expedition
against provocative raids by Chinese
and white guards into Soviet terri
tory.
Litvinoff has replied to Chang
Hsueh-liang, accepting the Chinese
capitulation and proposing the re-
instatement of Yemshanov and Els
mont, director and vice-director re-
spectively, of the Chinese Eastern
Railway. After fulfilling prelim.
mary conditions, Mukden's repre-
sentative will meet with a Soviet
representative at Harbarovsk, on
Soviet territory, discuss the tech
nical side of carrying out Soviet con-
ditions and fixing the date and place
of Si~o-Soviet conference.
The acceptance by Chang Hsueh-
liang, dictator of the so-called "gov-
ernment" of Mukden, on Soviet
terms, independently of the Marking
government, is a blow to that instru-
! ,nt of 44merican imperialism. The
Mukden militarist, however, had an
other inGucem mt oth~r than expos
ing the weakness of Marking, as
Mukden itself was weakening, for as
the Red Army advanced, the workers
and peasants of Manchuria itself
were forming guerilla fighting bands
partisan to the Red Army and
threatening to establish a Soviet
Manchuria on the ruins of Mukden's
collapse.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 28.-Chinese
militarist politics, always charged
with electric surprises, may go into
another convulsion following that OF
few days ago when the Feng Yu-
hsiang armies checked their advance
after being bribed by Chang Kai.
shek to the tune of cool $10,000,00C
gold.
For with the blunt exposure o1
Markings loss of control over Muk
den by its separate peace with the
Soviet Union at the moment Nan
king thought to save itself by ap
peal to the world for aid agains
"Red aggression" Chang Kai-shel
must shift the forces he has beer
using against Feng Yu-hsiang il
Honan and Hupeh, southwark t,
meet the uninterrupted advance o.
the Kwangsi and Chang Fa-kwa
armies on Canton.
But this lays Chang Kai-shek ant
his brilliant" American adviser
open to blow that would, if carried
out, put Marking and American in
fluence completely down and out. Fol
in moving troops south to NEE
Chang Fa-kwai, who continues fight
ing in spite of the bribes lavisheI
on him, the area of recent fighting
in Honan and Hupeh are stripped
of Marking troops, and there is moth
ing to prevent the Kuominchur
forces of Feng Yu-hsiang, from
again forgetting what they wer,
out to do for that $4,000, 900, ant
again advancing to settle Nankins
for good.
The efforts of American imper
ialism to hold up Marking by pour
ing bribes through his hands, ant
being swindled in this fashion, will
be one of the greatest practical joke.
! of history.