The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-11
HOOVER HELPS JAPAN SPREAD
WAR THROUGHOUT CHINA

| the Siberian masses were eXperien-
cling intense misery" This is part
of the theological attack on the Sow
let Union to Justify the imperial
lists in their attack on the Soviet
Union.
Sees War In Europe ANY Moment"
A dispatch from Geneva reports
Counsellor -Minger as declaring at
the opening at Berne of the con-
ference on chemical warfare that "a
serious conflict in Europe might start
at any moment" This is in line
with the admissions of other imper-
ialists that Poland, Rumania and
other French vassal states in Eastern
Europe will attack the Soviet Union
in the event the Soviets are involved
in the Manchurian war.
japanese Set Up Puppet Govt
In Manchmia, the Japanese yester-
day further consolidated their hold
on the country by carrying out a fake
revolt" through their Chinese mil
itarist tools A Mukden dispatch TO
the World Telegram reports the for
NAL Inauguration of an independent
government" The dispatch further
states
Yuan Chin-kai was at the head of
the government, presumably assisted
by japanese advisers" who have be-
come part of civil units in other
Manchurian cities"
The same dispatch reports Japan
ese support to Chang Hai-peng in an
effort to gain control of the Man
churian territory north of the Chin
ese Eastern Railway, and including
the strategic city OF Tsitsihar.
Japanese FOmented Revolt In
Tientsin
Evidence that the Japanese TO-
mented tie revolt" in Tientsin is
contained in a Washington dispatch
to the New York Times. The dispatch
states;
Official advices OF the American
Government, however, Indicated the
outbreak was fomented by japanese,
What troubled officials was the
motive for this action"
At the Japanese embassy at Tient-
sin, it was stated that the trouble
there appeared very serious and ap-
parently pointed to a Chinese revo-
luton" 1t is clear that the japanese
are fomenting this revolution" which
is being lead by their own tools and
is designed to facilitate the occupa-
ton not only of Manchuria but of all
China,
U. S.-Japanese AntagOnism
Antagonisms within their agree
ment are sharpening between United
States and Japanese imperialisms.
Yesterday the American-owned Shan
ghai Post-Mercury charged that the
Japanese censors We're suppressing
and changing reports from Man
ehuria. The Post-Mercury declares;
a censorship comparable only
to that during the World War has
been placed on news concerning
Manehuria by the Japanese miiit-
airy. Many of our dispatches from
Mukden have been held up, while
others have been distorted by the
deletion of phrases and some even
have been rewritten
The antagonisms between Japanese
and U. S. imperialisms were further
brought out in a statement by DR..
Peng Chum-chang, who declares:
American business In Manchuria
was already feeling competition
from the Japanese and the latter
would never permit Americans to
get any of the trade there"
United For Attack On Soviet Union
In the meantime the greater con-
tradiction, that of the irrepresSible
conflict between triumphant Social
ism in the Soviet Union and decaying
capitalism. with its mass unemploy-
ment, and home and colonial reyolts,
is forcing the United States and
France to the use of Japanese i'm
perialism in their attempt to enctrcle
the Soviet Union. This is shown by