The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
Machine Guns Fail
to Halt Mass Up
surge In China
CONTINUED FRos1 PAGE ONE1

mander in Chief, Chang Kali
shek, whose flight into retirement
at Fenghua was rumored, returned
to direct the fight against the
student mobs, who protest China's
weak policy against Japan"
Mass Anger Rising, More Demon
STATIONS Expected
A Shanghai dispatch to the New
York Times reports that "worse de-
monstrationS are expected tomorrow
owing to radical elements obtaining
the upper hand. Military author
tiles continue to threaten drastic
suppressive measures"
The Japanese are reported to be
converting Manchuria into an actual
colony with a Japanese Governor
General. A Tokyo United Press dis
patch declares:
"Gen. Jiro Minami, Minister of
War in the Wakatsuki Cabinet, will
be appointed first Governor Cen
eral of Manchuria, it was disclosed
today"
The League of Nations Commits
sion is near completion The follow
ing are reported nominated: Major
Gen. John L. Hines, U.S.A. Senator
Carlo Schanzer of fascist Italy; Dr.
Albert H. H. Schnee, Of Germany,
and Lord Macmillan, representing
the new government Of Great Brit
ain. The French delegate has not
yet been named, but is expected to
be an army officer. The secret pur-
pose Of the Commission is to aid in
carrying through the partition of
China and the establishment of Man
churia as military base against the
Soviet Union.
British Hit Dominance of League by
United States
In connection with the attempt of
the British to wrest from the United
States the leading role in the matur-
ing armed Intervention against the
Chinese Soviets and the Soviet Union,
the conservative London Post yester-
day demanded that the British gov
eminent refuse financial support to
the League. The Post accuses the
United States of dominating the last
Council of the League, and declares:
eff the League was set in motion
to further American policy in Man
churia, some of the cost should
come out of the American trea-
suhy."
The Post editorial drew warm
praise from the Daily Express, Lord
Beaverbrook's organ.
Japan To Start New Drive On
Chinchow
Japan is buying huge quantities Of
copper in the United States for war
purposes. A financial report says:
Copper buying is good on foreign
account export sales Thursday
were 100000 pounds and in the
forenoon today amounted to 5,000,-
0G9 pounds at the price which is
re up from Thursday"
The Japanese are about to launch
new drive for the seizure of Chin
chow. Extensive plans are being
made for this drive which is probably
intended to extend beyond the Chin
chow area into China proper in a
combined attack with other imperial
list powers against the Chinese Re
volution.
Prince Kotohito has been selected
by the new japanese government to
replace Gen. Hanzo Kanaya as chief
Of the army general staff. Tokyo
dispatches admit that this move is
made in an effort to gain popular
support for the policy of japanese
aggression against the Chinese mas
ses. A dispatch to the New York
Sun significantly states: ut is the
first time since the Russo-Japanese
war that Prince Of the royal blood
has received the post
Chang Uffered Sen AS IOol 10 Japan
A dispatch to the New York Times
from its Tokyo correspondent unwit-
tingly exposes the traitorous cooper
alton Of the Kuomintang leaders with
the japanese in Manchuria. 1t says:
"As CHAM Hsueh- Hang has re-
signed the Governorship CT Man
churia ii can rev be Disclosed 'tat
he agreed zen days ago 20 Withdraw
his forces from the Chinchow area,
according TO JspaEe5e sources"
The dispatch further states that
Chang offered himself as a tool to
the japanese, but the japanese are
turning a deaf ear to him, though