The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-11

United States Imperialism
Defeats JAPAN IN Manchuyia


harajah of Kashmir. This territory
was formerly the great tramping
gropRd of Tschang Tso-lin who
arose from the profession of ban
ditry to besruler of the country and
then conqueror of Picking (Peiping);
now his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-
lang wears the boots of his father
and has been appointed the COM
mander of Manchuria by the Nank-
ing government. This young mar
shall has shown what Manchurian
law is when he called two of the
highest Manchurian officials before
him-one the civil governor of He'll
ungkiang province and the other his
mander-accused them of
certain plots against his person and
ManNhuria, and then had them shot
dead where they stood.
When the natiapalist flag was
raised over the Three Eastern Prov
inces on Dec. goth, the terms of I'M
ification with the Marking govern
ment left all internal affairs in the
hands of the local officials. Nank-
ing appointed" certain officials, but
they were but confirmation OF the
list sent it by the Mukden govern
ment. Foreign affairs, however,
came directly under Marking. This
means that while the imperialist
powers remained untouched by the
unification, Soviet Russia is directly
affected because Marking had
broken off relations with Russia.
Excepting that the same policy
would be pursued in Manchuria and
PEELED, the local feudal Chinese Of
ficials Immediately felt themselves
called upon to issue vague and in
sulting charges and warnings to all
Soviet citizens. But the problem is
complicated by the fact that the
Chinese Eastern Railway is under
joint Chinese-Soviet management,
and that the chief experts and train
ed specialists in it's service are Sow
| let Russians. The Chinese have not
sufficient trained experts to run the
railway, and there are Chinese who
further state that various interested
powers are urging the Chinese on
to confiscate the railway.
1t is a foregone conclusion that
they will eventually do this, but the
more immediate plan seems to be
to put the higher administrative po-
sitions on a $3.50 ratio, instead of
the two-third Russian and one-third
Chinese as at present; to take over
the mines, hospitals and other in
stitutions of the railway; and even
tually to either confiscate the rail
way itself, or to regard the money
spent by the Russians in its con-
struction as loan.
On the surface, the railway mat
ter looks simple enough-the right
of the Chinese to own all railways,
mines, telephones and telegraphs on
Chinese soil. That is the funda-
mental right of any people. They
have the right to confiscate also,
provided they can get it no other
] way. But the Soviet government
declared at the time of the recent
Chinese confiscation of the telephone
system, that it is willing to nego-
tiate on terms of equity and friend
ship. But the reply of the Chinese
to the Russians is couched in in
sulting terms that they would use
to no imperialist power.
Japanese Competition.
1t has been years now that Japan,
working through the South Man
churian Railway, has tried to build
branch lines that would cut off and
completely emasculate the Chinese
Eastern Railway. The most import
ant of these lines that would COM
plete this process are five, and of
these the most important would con-
meet Kirin in Central Manchuria
with the Korean port of Seishin, en-
abling Japan to fill Manchuria with
troops within "a hours. The attempt
of Japan to force these five lines to
be finished is the origin of the anti
Japanese student movement in Man
churia which, in November, led to
great demonstrations during which
the Hardin police (Harbin is the
chief center of the Chinese Eastern
Railway shot down lat boy and
girl students.
ITO Be Concluded Tomorrow)