The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10

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throughout Manchuria. 400 japanese
were killed during an attack by Chin
csc peasants on an immense Japan
csc owned ranch near Payantala,
about 225 miles northwest of Muk-
den. The attack was carried out by
TOO peasants. Only a few of the jap
anese escaped. The ranch buildings
we're burned to the ground by the
angry peasants. Large bands of
armed peasants and disbanded SOL
diers are active "even within seven
miles of Mukden," the dispatch re-
ports. Some of the bands are 500
strong The dispatch, which speaks
of the Chinese workers and peasants
as "bandits,' reports "a remarkable
increase Of raids by bandits and ir-
regulars into the South Manchuria
railroad zone. j.. The last four days
have witnessed total of twelve i'm
porGant cases of raiding and footing
INSIDE the zone
Anti imperialist demonstrations
are reported sweeping all important
Chinese centers. Capitalist press dis
patches are now forced to admit that
these demonstrations are also dir
ected against the Kuomintang tools
of the imperialists. A Marking dis
patch to the New York Evening Post
reports that 10 places in Marking
we're marked for hostile demonstra-
lions today by workers and students
1t says:
Attack KuOmintang Headquarters.
The places marked for assault
were the resident of DIR. Wellington
Koo, Foreign Minister; the home of
the Finance. Minister and the head
quarters of the Kuomintang, Ma
tionalist Party.
THE Office Of the Central Daily
News was protected by sand bags
against threatened attack and the
government provided extra guards
for the Japanese consulate"
The Canton branch of the Kuo-
nlintang, alarmed by the terrible
anger of the mas es, is making a
fake gesture of sending an army
against the japanese invaders OF
Manchuria. AS the Canton leaders
are the tools of Japanese and Brit
ish ifnperialisms, this gesture is simp-
ly intended to deceive the n1asse
and divert them from the revolution
airy struggle against imperialism
thereby ftirthering Canton's plan OF
succeeding the tottering Marking
government.
A Shanghai dispatch reports the
need for a similar gesture by Nank-
ing or ut will be unable to stand up
In the face OF the wild indignation
of the public which has been feat
ured by a march Of students and
workers to the capital" This is the
first time that the capital t press
agencies have admitted the presence
OF workers In the anti-Japanese dem
onstrations.
The U. S. warning to Japan was
opened by Hoover in his address to
congress. While in that address
Hoover merely mentioned ''the diff
cu1ties between China and Japan" and
spoke OF fhe concern" of the United
States for the maintenance of the
pirit Of the Kellogg BRAND Pact
and the maintenance of treaties, he
threatened Japan NTH the POSSIBLE
tty of a sharper attack Gin later
message"
Baker Follows With Open Attack.
Hoover's yelled threat was followed
up on the same day with an open
attack on Japan by Newton D. Baker
former secretary of war and nov
r'antioned as a democratic candidate
for the presidential nomination
BAKER openly accused the Japanese
Of violating the Nine-Power Treaty
declaring:
THE Japanese case Is peculiarly
grave. The Nine-Power Treaty wa
signed by her to preserve peace in
the East by guaranteeing the ter
ritorial and administrative integrity
Of China. She thus became trus-
tee obliged to prevent the very
things she Is now doing"
Baker secuted the Japanese plea
willingly accepted hitherto by all the
imperialist powers, that the civil gov
eminent cannot control the army. He
flung the terms "savagesp. and "hyp-
ocritica1 savages" at the Japanese
although framing the e terms so as
to apparently include all of the i'm
,aa,.ia1.-ta rfo ro.id.