The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
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view Oh Cne provocative lies VI
the Japanese imperialists that
the Soviet Union was giving
aid to the Chinese militarists.
The report is published under
the sensational captions:
international Smuggling
Gang Selling Arms In North
ern Manchuria."
ARREST Dairen Customs officials
The newspaper says that on Nov
Is "Darien police arrested two off,
eials of the Darien custom house and
several employees of a certain big
firm. This gang engaged in opera
tions of selling arms through Hardin
and Heilukiang (Tsitsihar). The po-
lice raided the offices of Nagaishioten
on Kiimachi Street. The ringleader
who is a European escaped arrest
This gang took advantage of Man.
churian events to supply arms
through Dairen and Hardin to the
Chinese Generals of North Man.
churia.
"The work Of the gang was so well
organized that its activities were I'M
discovered until the last moment
Despite strong police guard, the gang
transported arms and ammunition
almost openly. It is believed the
gang has members throughout Man.
churia."
The big office mentioned by the
BARREN newspaper is that OF "Ko-
l-usai Unyu." great Japanese Trans
port and Loan Comapny in Man
cAuria.
The Soviet press yesterday pub
g'nod dispatch from Peiping, China
sporting that the Japanese planned
10 use the Tsarist White Guards ir
Manchuria to seize the Chinese
Eastern Railway and set UP a buffer
state in Northern Manchuria.
The Peiping dispatch quotes
trustworthy source in Osaka, Japan
to the effect that an official japanese
military mission at Hardin had gone
to Mukden to arrange with the ia
panese command an agreement with
the White Guards to seize the rail-
road, which is jointly owned BY
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The report quotes representative
of the Japanese Military Mission al
telling General Kosmin, leader of the
White Guards organization, that al
though war with the Soviet Unior
might not take place Immediately
Japan intended to set up a buffer
state in the Far East and that mat
urally in realization of this plan the
Whites must play principal role"
Tsitsihar Section of Railway Nov
Occupied.
The dispatch reports that the ia
panese do not deny that Harbir
would be occupied by the JAPANESE
and that they would partly occupy
the Chinese Eastern Railway. The
Tsitsihar section of the railway is
now coupled by the Japanese.
The plan to seize the railroad Is
prepared by the White Guards and
is reported in dispatch from Mos
COW to the New York Times as fol-
lows:
Zone detachment Of whites
would occupy the Hardin station,
issuing an order for the immedi-
ate suspension of traffic; a second
detachment would occupy the shops
and take over management Of the
line, and third would occupy the
Hardin commissary.
Present employees of the rail-
road, beginning with the telegraph
operators, would be beaten and then
replaced by new men previously
trained for the work, the report
added
Semenoff Helping Japanese.
In this connection, the New York
Evening Journal on Nov. 10 published
the following dispatch from Shang-
hal:
General Gregorie Mikhailovitch
Semenoff, the Butcher of Siberia,
is directing the raising of White
Russian army of 5000 men in Man
churia to cooperate with Japanese
If the partly Soviet Chinese East
ern Railway Is to be seized, it was
said here today"
Coincident with this latest effort te
push the Soviet Union into war, the
Japanese are continuing their at
tacks on the Chinese masses, with
growing frankness as to their aims
to crush the Chinese Soviets, the
Chinese Red Army and the growing
resistance of the Chinese masses as
a prerequisite for the re-division OF
China among the imperialist plum
derers. The New York Herald Tri-
bune yesterday carried Toxic dis
patch, thecontents of which were
summarized in the following head
line:
| JAPAN MAPS NEW DRIVE;
PLANS TO PASS GREAT WALL
IF CHINESE DO NOT RETIRE"
The New York Daily News carried
Che headline
JAPANESE SOLDIERS ROUT
1900 FOES NEAR MUKDEN."
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