The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26

part Of the other imperialists to dc
mand new partitioning of the
colonial empires and that this will
mean an attack on the British
empire. The other imperialists want
to drive through TO its logical con-
clusion the loss in importance that
Great Britain has suffered on the
international financial field. They
are determined to force Great Britain
into a secondary imperialist power
by depriving it Of whole sections of
its colonial empires.
Sir Eric Drummond and Lord Cecil
attacked the Japanese demands
sharply in the League of Nations.
Lord Cecil was the only one who at
tackled the Japanese counter pro-
posals to those the League had off
cially made He pointed out that
despite all of the Japanese state
ments about willingness to withdraw
they were actually continuing the
armed invasion with more and more
bombings and other military moves.
In order to outmaneuyer the Jap
anese automatically Sir Eric Drum
mond, Secretary General Of the
League, representing British imper-
ialism, suggested that both Japan and
China pledge themselves to respect
mutually recognized treaties" Tho
japanese, however, saw in this "sug-
gestion" Of the British the attempt
to contest the legality of some Of the
treaties on which the Japanese i'm
perialists legally" base their invasion
of Manchuria.
The japanese press has sharply
stated to the British imperialists
that Britain is no longer a dominate
ing factor in the Far East and that
British statesmen have been too slow
in recognizing their weakened posi-
ton. The New York Times quotes
the leading japanese papers as fol-
lows:
'The Tokyo Nichi Nichi asks
:. how the British expect to press &c
their position in South China with
out Japan's assistance. The day is
past when Britain could influence
the policy of the Far East, the
paper goes on, and her statesmen
are blind TO facts and are failing TO
realize that Japan is a force which
cannot be disregarded. British sup
port of Geneva's proposal TO invite
an American observer is ascribed
to her desire to put pressure on
Japan.
'The Tokyo Asahi eriticizes Bri-
fish insistence that evacuation
should precede negotiation, and
recalls that Britain sent troops to
Shanghai without asking permits
sion and still retains force there"
The United States delegate has
been in close conference with the
Japanese in this attack. Saturday
night the japanese delegate, Yoshi-
zawa, and Prentiss Gilbert, the
United States delegate, had a con-
ference forever an hour and q half,
and refused to give out any informa-
ton as to what this conference had
been about. The conference was for
the purpose of bringing closer the
joint attack Of the Japanese and the
United States against the British
Empire and for the purpose of pre-
pairing the attack on the Soviet
Union from Manchuria.
In order to prepare the attack on
the Soviet Union the capitalist press
is reporting that the Soviet Union is
supplying troops loyal to Chang
Hsueh Liang with arms This is a
definite attempt to take the next step
after the invasion of Manchuria-
the. attack on the Soviet Union. The
capitalist press points out that the
determination of Japan to retain
Dairen and Port Arthur is for the
purpose of having "a basic line OF
defense in possible war with
Russia" The imperialists will try to
carry forward the attack on the So
Wet Union through an attack on the
Chinese Eastern Railway, in which
they were unsuccessful two years
ago.