The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-17

Scrtpps- Howard foreign editor:
From a military attache here
with several years experience in
the Far East the writer learns that
Japan has been preparing inten-
sively for the past decade against
the day she would step out to
achieve her destiny. That destiny,
the Japanese admit, at minimum.
is control over Manchuria and Mon
golia,"
Japan Constantly Rushing
New Troops.
Abandoning all pretense OF keeping
her forces in Manchur1a below the
treaty limit, Japan Is rushing REIN
forcements of all arms, and is plan
ming to increase her bombing activi-
ties, which have already taken the
lives Of hundreds Of Chinese workers
and peasants, including women and
children. A Toxic dispatch reports:
'cThe ministry of war was UNDER
stood today to be planning the dis
patch of a fleet of large bombing
planes to Manchuria to reinforce
Japanese troops fighting the Nonni
River sector"
The Japanese consul at Tsitsihar
has left that city in preparation Of
an air attack by the japanese on its
inhabitants. A dispatch from Tsit-
sihar to the New York World-Tele
gram declares:
TN a hasty conversation, Con-
sui Shimidzu said he intended TO
return as soon as the situation has
been clarified. HE ADDED THAT,
so FAR AS HE WAS ABLE TO
OBSERVE, GENERAL MA HAD
RECEIVED NO AID FROM THE
| SOVIETS." Emphasis ours-Daily
Worker.)
Japanese Continue Anti Soviet Lies
In spite Of repeated exposures Of
their lies that the Soviet Union has
been aiding Ma with troops and
munitions, the japanese continue to
spread their anti-Soviet lies. This
they are doing in an attempt to cover
up their hostile moves against the
Soviet Union, and build up a justi-
| fication in advance for the planned
attack on the Soviet Union. These
| lies are peddled in the crudest form,
as, for instance, the following state
ment in dispatch from Mukden:
Japanese consulate sources said
tension with Soviet Russia was in
creasing and charged that many
Chinese, Koreans and other Com
munist partisans had left Soviet
territory to aid the Chinese in
HeiIungkiang. The Soviet arranged
for railroad traffic TO reach
Tsitsihar unobserved and the Chi
nese Eastern was transporting SOL
diers for General Ma, 1t was, al
legged. The Chinese have vigorously
denied receiving aid from Russia"
Evidently Japanese Consul Shinid-
zu at Tsitsihar had not received his
instructions from the war Office
when he told a United Press cor
respondent that, 80 far as he was
| able to observe, General Ma had re-
ceived no aid from the Soviets."
Sees No Sign of Soviet Aid
The United Press correspondent
| u.n "a nr;ot- Lr,,h x,,laS ,,,adA :, Fi,,a 4 q
tour Of Siberia, not only reports he
saw no military preparations on Sow
let territory, but reports from Tsit-
Sihar that a box of Russian cigarettes
on table in General Mas office wa;
1.-THE only indication l saw through
out the trip of the so-called Soviet
influence"
General Ma, reputed to be rict
land owner, has Indignantly and pa
triotically" denied that he had re-
ceived or would accept aid from the
Soviet Union. General Mas secret
airy. Lew, is reported In the New
York World-Telegram yesterday a,
citing "the Dutch Consul at Hardin
Wander Hoeven, as declaring after a
visit 10 Tsitsihar Saturday that he
had failed to find any basis for the
allegations, and said this confirmed
the findings of American, British ano
other officials who had made similar
Investigations at Tsitsihar and the
Nonni River zone"
japanese Fan War Flames
The japanese. however, continue tc
| spread their lies and the capitalist
press In all the inperialist countries
continue to perform their role o
helping the japanese to play up thu
Red DOGGY as justification for tht
Japanese occupation Of Manchuris
and the increasing war moves agains
the workers and peasants socialis
republic.
Deliberately tanning the flame o
the new world war, the Japanese mil
itary conducted a demonstration o
Japanese civilians and soldiers Il
Mukden yesterday. AS on Ar1nistic
Day, the central point Of the demon
stration was the Mukden Menioria
erected in memory Of the Japanes
killed in the war rs years ago be
tween the two irnperialisms Of Jaoai
and Russia, before the Russian mas
ses overthrow their imperialists an,
erected workers and peasants gov
eminent, which while prepared to de
fend its own soil has conclusivel
shown 1t has no designs on the LAM
of other peoples. A battalion of Jap
anese soldiers stood rigidly at atten