The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-16

THE Japanese imperialst troops stationed in
Manchuria during the night Of September
18TH occupied Mukden Chang -chun Yungkow,
and the towns on the Southern Manchurian and
Mukden-Antung railway line. They bombarded
the arsenal the north quarter, the. houses in
Mukden the public buildings of the occupied
towns and the most important strategic points,
they disarmed the Chinese troops, and killed and
wounded hundreds of the Chinese population
and soldiers. The Japanese troops are continu-
ing their advance on the province of Kirin, on
the districts through which the Kirin- Chang
chu. and Pekng- Mulsden railway lines pass,
and have already occupied the towns of Kirin,
Jaidj and Chen Ming. japanese marines landed
on the coast of Tsingtau, Yingtai Tientsien,
Chinwangtao and Fulutau. The Chinese North
Eastern fleet was surrounded by Japanese War-
ships. Chinese gun-boats at the mouth of the
Ya-Lu-Kiang river have been destroyed by the
gun fire of the Japanese fleet Japanese troops
have arrived from Korea and troops are being
modified in Japan itself. The present goal OF
the Japanese advance is Northern Manchuria,
Eastern Mongolia and the provinces of Chilli and
Snantung.
This aggressive action of the Japanese imper-
ialist tropos was long planned and prepared by
the japanese government. The Chinese Soviet
government previously repeatedly declared that
don their endeavors finally to colonize China
and divide it among themselves, until the work
ing masses drove the impsriaist robbers out of
the country and shattered the Kucnintang gov
eminent of the Chinese bolTgeoisie and land
owners who capitulate to the imperialists. The
present measures of occupation and oppression
on the part of the Japanese government are the
continuation of its aggressive inperialist policy
towards China which commenced already with
the Sino- japanese and the Japan-Russian wars
with the dictated treaty containing the notorious
81 points, and with the Tsinan blood bath. The
precursors of the new imperialsit advance by
Japan of the present occupation of Manchura
and the future attack on Inner Mongolia and
North China, were the pogroms in Wan Bau
Schan and the massacres in Korea in general
the bloody events in Tsingtau and the affair
of Captain Nakamura. The counter measures"
of the treacherous Kuonlintang government con-
sist in concealing from the masses the enor-
nous Importance of these events, keeping the
masses calm and peaceful, and thus patiently to
await the complete enslavement of the Chinese
people by imperialism
The intentions of the Japanese imperialists
are perfectly obvious With the occupation of
Manchuria they aim at consolidating their rule
in Manchurs and Mongolia, bringing the Chin
csc people still more under the yoke of their ex-
plO1tatlOn ana oppression, III OrOer 10 lncrSdSS
their own profits and thereby overcome the eco
nomjc crisis in their own country. and beyond
this to prepare the mperalist war for hegemony
in the Far East and the war against the Soviet
Union. The present events are warning signal
for the world proetariat; they are the harding
ers of second world war of q war against the
Soviet Unon AS result of recent events the
oppressed and exploited masses Of China are
more and more coming to realize that the fight
against the robber campaigns of the mperialists
against China is inseparably connected with the
fight against imperialist war, with the defense
of the Soviet Union.
That the action of the Japanese imperialists
has assumed such an open and unrestrained
form is solely because the reactionary Kucmin-
tang government, ever iince its existence has
continually grovelled in the most shameful man
ner before world imperialism; because, for in
stance in the negotiations on the occasion Of the
various body attacks of the imperialists in Nank-
ing, HankoW, Tsinan and more recently in Wan
Bau Schan, it has sold the interests Of the
Chinese people, The Marking government has
always endeavored to suppress the revolutionary
mass movement against Japanese Imperialism.
Thus the occupation Of Manchuria can take
place with the liberation Of Marking govern