The daily worker., 1931-11-30
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with CilinchoW as the immediate OBJ
.iec6iIe The town of Tahushan, half
way between Mukden and ChinchoW,
was bombed on Saturday by Japa-
nese airpianes. The J6penese were
also reported to have bombed Chin
chow on Friday. All Japanese male
residents in Tientsin between the
ages of 16 and IS have been con-
scripted.
imneriaIist Interests In Open Clash
The Japanese advance on Tientsin
by way of Chinchow struck q snag
late Saturday, according TO the latest
dispatches from Mukden which re-
port that the Japanese army which
left Mukden Friday southwark bound
was in full process of withdrawal late
SATURDAY, While the reasons for the
Withdrawal are sbrouded in the usual
secrecy with which the United States,
japan and The League of Nations
have surrounded the Manchurian war,
il is known that the British have
sharply protested against the en-
trance OF the japanese into what they
consider a zone of British influence
around Chinchow. A serious diplo-
matte clash also occurred Saturday
between Japan and the United
States, with the Japanese Foreign
Office bitterly deouncing Stimson for
statement alleged to him by Rengo,
japanese agency. Rengo had
charged Stimson with saying that
Cd the Japanese army had run
amuck in Manchuria, and (2) that
Japan intends to take Manchuria
completely.
The Japanese Foreign. Office de-
manded an immediate denial by
Stinson of this alleged statement
and ACCUSED Stimson "of disclosing
confidential exchanges between the
accused Stimson "of disclosing conf
Dental exchanges between the United
States and Japan The statement
by the Japanese Foreign Office car
ried the implied threat Of publication
of the secret notes between the Uni
ted States and Japan. 1t also denied
that Japan, as alleged by Stimson,
had expressed regret and has said
that such events would never happen
again each time an advance was made
in Manchuria.'
Shmson Denies Statements Which
Offended Japanese.
Washington dispatches report
Stinlson denying that he made the
statements for which he has been
denounced by the Japanese Foreign
Offlce. Stimson is reported to have
rushed to his Office as soon as he
learned of the attack on him by the
Japanese. He called on Hoover and
had half hour conference with the
Wall Street president. He then is
sued statement that much that had
been attributed to him in the press
reports transmitted to Japan he had
not said.
All he had said, The New York
Times quotes him, was that he could
not believe the press reports from the
Far East yesterday (Friday) of the
advance of the Japanese army toward
Chinchow because he had been as
sured by Baron Shidehara that this
would not happen.
Whether Stimson made the state
ment attributed to i'm, he is now
fcverishly trying to placate the Jap
anese imperiaists. While there is no
doubt of the sharpening clash between
the interests of Japan and the United
States in China, the fact remains
that the United States, as the leader
of the anti-Soviet front, is secretly
supporting the Japanese war moves
in Manchuria, which are aimed at
the crushing of the powerful revolu-
tionary movement in China, at the
re-division of China and war on the
Soviet Union, and on the struggles
against starvation of the hu~.ry mil
ions in the home countries and in