The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-10
EXPOSE SECRET PLANS OF
JAPANESE FOR WAR ON CHINESE
-.. MASSES AND SOVIET UNION
CHINESE RENEW FIRING"
Chang Tries to Exploit Resistance
He Opposed

Chiang Tries to Exploit Resistance
He Opposed
The United States and British I'M
perialistS continue to permit the
Japanese to use the Settlement as a
base for military operations against
the Chinese. The two divisions Of
1000 troops each, which the jap
anese are rushing to Shanghai are
being landed in the Settlement.
Having failed in their attempts to
darn the Chinese soldiers in Shang-
hal and to break the mass resistance
to the japanese, the Kuomintang be-
trayers of China are now attempting
to exploit the heroic resistance of the
Shanghai defenders in an effort to
recJperate their shattered influence.
Wang Ching-wei, Feng Yu-hSiang,
Chang Hsiao-h Hang, Yen Hsishan and
other militarists have united with
Chang Kai-shek in a gesture of re-
sistance against the japanese. WI
Peifu has also come out of his en-
forced retirement to aid the new
move to deceive the Chinese masses
and block the rapid spread of Com
munist influence among the masses
and petty-bourgeois sections.
The hypocrisy of this move is COM
pletely exposed by the failure of the
fugitive Marking government to de-
clare war against Japan even at this
stage of the imperialist invasion of
China. Marking militarists are still
maintaining ther truce with the jap
anese armed forces in Marking and
other parts of China. This truce
enables the Japanese to concentrate
most of their warships and troops
against the resistance of the masses
nShanghai and against the adj
yancing Chinese Red Army, at latest
reports five miles from the great in
dustriaI city of Hankow.
Soong In Shanghai to Supervise
Betrayal
In Shanghai itself, the Kuonin
tang officials are reported to be
favorably considering the proposals OF
the japanese, the United States and
British iinperialists for the with
drawal of the Chinese forces de-
Tending the city.
Marking Finance Minister Soong
Is at Shanghai to direct this betrayal
In deadly fear of the anger of the
Chinese workers, he goes about with
a huge body-guard. A Shanghai dis
patch reports:
"Mr. Song Is living in one of the
spacious houses he owns in Shang-
hal. Wherever he goes he is pro
tected by bodygusrd with sub
machine guns"
U. S. BUSHES More Warships
|. Against Chinese -RedsArrnE /.
The imperialists, alarmed at the
victories of the Chinese Red Army,
continue to rush their warships up
the 'Yangtze against the Red Army.
A Washington dispatch reports that
two United States destroyers have
been ordered from Shanghai up the
YangtZe River" Several U. S. war
ships are already at Hankow. Two
destroyers are at Marking. Another
is on its way to Chingkiang, about
Is miles below Marking. The re-
moval OF Americans from the Yang
TIE Valley continues, in preparation
for the attack on the Chinese Soviet
Republic. One Hundred fifty eva
cuated from Marking yesterday.
Several hundred thousand Chinese
refugees from Shanghai are struggl-
ing up the Yangtze Valley by foot
and boat and any available con-
veyance. Most OF them are destitute
workers blasted out of their homes
by the Japanese naval guns and
borniaing planes. Over $4,000 are
flood refugees driven out of Shang-
hal by the Kuonintang officials who
fear a mass uprising in the city.
Their misery Is further increased by
a severe blozzard now raging In the
Middle Yangtze Valley. The refu-
gees are entirely without shelter.
Most OF them are In rags and have
no protection from the intense cold.
In addition, food is scarce and many
are reported to be starving. The
Kuomintang officials are making
not the slightest attempt TO help
them. The flood refugees have been
given a Chinese silver dollar to start
life over on.
The United States yesterday made
representations to the Kuomintang
officials at Marking and Canton de-
manding that an army be sent to
Kiangsi province, where II mission
airy agents OF American imperialism
are cooped up in the city of Kan
chow, which is surrounded by forces
of the Chinese Red Army.