The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-03

Chinese masses. The United States
and other tmperialists are equally
responsible with the Japanese i'm
perialists for this savage wholesale
murder Of workers. While claiming
neutrality for the International Set
Element and threatening reprisals
against the Chinese if they carried
on any resistance within the Set
Element against the Japanese, the
imperialist Settlement police stood
by, unable to cope with the killings.
Some Of the Chinese sought refuge
behind the police, only to be dubbed
back into line by the ever-present
'ronins' Japanese gangsters)." In
plain words, the United States and
British police in the International
Settlement turned over these Chin
csc workers to the japanese to be
murdered
Use Field Guns Against Native City.
The Japanese yesterday resumed
the bombardment Of the Chapel ma
tive section, in which over 10000
Chinese workers we're murdered in
previous bombardments during the
past week. Using field guns as well
as machine guns and bombing
planes, the Japanese spread new
havoc and murder among the 100,-
600 workers who remained in Cha
pei because they had nowhere else
to go. Many additional thousands
were killed and wounded in the
latest bonbardment. In pushing
their campaign Of utter frightfulness
against the masses, the Japanese
even refused to permit medical aid
to wounded Chinese works.:
''The refusal to permit a Chinese
to have medical aid was not an
isolated incident Two Hongkew
police detectives asked permission
to take wounded Chinese to a
hospital, but the Japanese refused"
lombard Marking Masses.
On Monday afternoon, the Jap
anese opened a bombardment on the
city of Marking, recent capital Of
the bankrupt and fleeing Chang Kali.
shek CKuomintang) government.
Marking is 100 miles up the Yangtze
River from Shanghai. The Japan
csc attack on Marking shows clearly
the imperialist advance against the
Chinese Red Army and the Chinese
Soviet Republic in Central China.
Hankow, 400 miles further up the
Yangtze (from Nanking) is stated
to be the next objective of the Jap
anese warShips. Hankow is at pre-
sent surrounded by the Chinese Red
Army. Japanese forces in the city
already have set up machine guns
on the streets in the effort to pre-
vent a threatening uprising Of the
workers in Hankow to welcome the
Chinese Red Army. United States
and British warships are at Han
kow and other points along the
Yangtze River.
That these forces are there to make
war on the Chinese Red Army and
the Chinese Soviet Republic has been
openly admitted by the U. S. Rear
Admiral Yancy williams, who held
a conference with other imperialist
naval commanders few days ago
to work out plans for the attack on
the Chinese Red Army. U. S. Con-
Sul-General Cunningham in Shang-
hal has also admitted that the war
ships and troops the United States
is rushing to China are to be used
against the revolutionary Chinese
workers and peasants.
Both in Shanghai and Marking, the
imperialists and their Kuomintang
tools were successful yesterday in
breaking down the resistance of the
Chinese troops. Many of these
troops are reported on the verge of
revolt as a result Of this betraya lof
China. The imperialists are plainly
afraid that these troops will go over
to the Chinese workers and their
leader, the Chinese Communist Party
Following his failure to disarm the
troops which were fighting the Japa-
nese in Shanghai, Chang Kai-shek
has refused to send reinforcements
or munitions to these troops. AL
though there are $4,000 crack Chi
nese troops in Marking, there was
little resistance yesterday to the
japanese landing of marines under
cover of bombardment of the city
Nor did the Marking forts reply to
the fire of the Japanese warshipS
whieh were spreading death and ter
ror ssnong the workers Of Marking.
While Japanese planes are wiping
out whole populations in the con-
gested districts of Shanghai, Chang
Kai-shek refuses to permit his planes
to proceed against the Japanesel
Chang Kai-shek and the rest of the
Kuomintang traitors are faithfully
adhering" to their agreement with
the imperialists for the footing and
partition of China. Only the Chi
nese masses, led by the Chinese Com
munist Party and inspired by the
victorious advance of the Chinese
Red Army, are fighting back
The workers of the entire world
must rally to the defense of the Chi
nese masses, to the defense of the
Chinese Soviet Republic. The at
tack on the Chinese masses is an
attack on the entire working class
An attack engineered and being car
ried out by the very imperialist muir