The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26

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inintang tools to send an army a.
gainst the Chinese Red Armies. Sew
ersl missionary agents of imperial
ism are reported cooped up in XIV
angchow by the besieging Red Army.
Fear of a mass uprising at Han
kow and Ichang is expressed in i'm
perialist press dispatches from
Shanghai. The tension between the
Chinese masses and the Japanese
forces in these cities has grown
sharply during the past few days, as
result of the heroic resistance at
Shanghai of Chinese workers and
soldiers fighting in defiance of the
orders of the Marking Kuolnintang
government. The dispatch says that
the Japanese concession Cat Han
kow) has become fortified war
camp" Japanese civilians have been
armed against the Chinese masses.
Supporting the Japanese invaders,
the traitorous Kuomintang militar-
lists have disarmed their own gen.
darmes on duty near the Japanese
concession. The Hankow militarlsts
several weeks ago declared martial
law against the masses.
A Japanese gunboat, with 200 ma
rines, has been rushed to Ichang to
attack the revolutionary Chinese
workers in that city.
Kuomintang Preparing Attack On
Soviet Districts
Chang Kai-shek and the Canton
leaders, acting under the orders Of
the foreign imperialists, are report
ed. to be mobilizing huge armies in
the four provinces Of Kwangtung,
Kwangsi, Kweichau and Szechuen
for new Communist suppression"
campaign. Three similar campaigns
against the Chinese Soviet districts
have been decisively beaten back.
Kwangtung and KwangS are to the
South of the big Soviet districts.
Kweichau and Szchuen are on the
west. The Kuornintang traitors are
planning to attack the Chinese Soviet
districts in the rear at the same
time that the imperialists attack
from the east.
Fear Mass Uprising At Shanghai
The imperialists in Shanghai are
in deadly fear of q mass uprising
in Shanghai among the starving
tens Of thousands Of homeless re-
fugees. A Shanghai dispatch says:
families were broken up, men,
women and children wandering
around without means Of susten-
ance. Many were so near starving
they lived from garbage cans. The
real peril to the Settlement Hes in
rush on the part Of this des-
perste horde"
The foreign imperialists have set
up armed barricades against these
homeless masses, barring them from
the international settlement, and
threatening them with machine guns
unless they abjectly submit to the
misery inflicted upon them by the
japanese invasion and the attacks of
the other imperialists.
Japanese Again Suffer Set-Backs
Chinese soldiers and workers de-
Tending Shanghai, last night swarm
ed out of their trenches and threw
back the Japanese invaders after a
day of slow Japanese advance at
heavy cost against the heroic re-
sistance OF the Shanghai defenders.
A Shanghai dispatch to the New
York Post reports:
Hammered all day long by q
terrific Japanese bombardment,
the Chinese army in the Kiangwxn
sector swarmed out Of its trenches
tonight, launched a surprising
counter attack. and won nearly all
the ground it had lost during the
aay."
Shanghai Defenders In Clash With
Chiang's Troops
Fighting also occurred during the
day between soldiers Of the Chinese
Nineteenth Route Army and the
Eighty Eighth Division of Chang
Kai-shet. The Nineteenth Route
Army has strong Communist ele-
ments in its ranks. It's soldiers took
up the defense OF Shanghai in sup
port of the revolutionary Shanghai
masses and in defiance OF the orders
OF Chang Kai-shek. They threat
ened to shoot their officers unless
the officers led them against the
japanese. A few days ago, in an eff
fort to save his face in view of the
fury OF the Chinese masses, Chang
Kai-shek sent one OF his divisions to
take part in the defense of Shang-
hal. Evidently his officers had or
ders to betray the defense The re-
volutionary elements in the Nine
teenth Route Army discovered the
plot to betray the defense, and there
was an exchange of shots between
the two forces.
The commander OF the Chinese
Nineteenth Army is also apparently
trying to disrupt the defense. In a
statement 10 the imperislist press
he yesterday admitted that the Chin
ese forces at Shanghai could have
driven out the Japanese during the
past few days, before the arrival OF
the reinforcements which are being
rushed from Japan. This has been
pointed out by foreign observers in
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