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

white! Rally TO the fight against
the imperialists! Rally to the de-
Tense of your class brothers in
China, in Kentucky, rally to the
defense of the Scottsboro boys in
Alabama, Orphan Jones in Mary
land and other victims of imperial
ism. Defend the revolutionary
Chinese masses! Defend the Chi
nese Soviet Republic! Defend the
Soviet Union!
Advancing further up the Yangtze
River in their move to attack the
Chinese Red Army and the Chinese
Soviet Republic, Japanese warships
yesterday opened fire upon the city
Of Marking. The bombardment of
Marking was timed to occur after
the departure of Chang Kai-shek
and other officials of the counter
revolutionary Marking government,
which is now a government only in
name.
Chang Kai-shek, who few days
ago proclaimed his intention" to go
to the front against the Japanese,
was the first Of the Marking Off
Gals to take to flight. The Marking
ghost government is now located at
Loyang, in Honan Province, several
hundred miles north of Marking.
It's military officials in Marking have
proclaimed martial law in that city,
thus joining with the Japanese in
the effort to crush the resistance of
the Marking workers against the
japanese.
Japanese Erecting Barricades In
Yangtze Valley Towns.
Japanese nationals are reported to
be erecting barricades in many towns
along the Yangtze River. At Han
kow, Japanese troops have set up
machine guns and cannon in the
streets. The Marking troops holding
that city are cooperating with the
japanese in the effort to prevent a
mass uprising within the city to well
come the Chinese Red Army, which
is now at the gates of Hankow. The
United States and Great Britain are
removing their nationals from the
Yangtze Valley, in preparation for
the planned joint attack of all the
imperialist robbers against the Chi
nese Soviet Republic, which is ad-
mittedly supported by the Chinese
workers and peasants.
Open admission of the looting pur-
pose of the huge movement of i'm
perialist armed forces up the Yangtze
River is contained in dispatch from
washington, by William Philip
Simms, foreign editor of the Scripps-
Howard chain of newspapers. This
dispatch declares:
To-day there are only three
great powers in the running out
there, nancy, Britain, France and
Japan. Among these, division of
the spoils would be easier, their
sphere Of influence being respec-
lively in middle, south and north
China"
Intervention Aimed Against Chi
nese Soviet Republic.
Trying to cover up the crimes of
his own Imperialism, Simms forgets
to mention that the United States
also has sphere of interest and ire
mendous investments in China, for
gets that Wall Street controlled the
now bankrupt Marking government
and through it all of Kuomintang
China. The United States imperial
lists are as much engaged in looting
China as the other imperial buzz
yards with whim they are at present
carrying on a diplomatic struggle for
their desired share, a struggle which
may possibly turn into an armed
slaughter.
1t is because Of the collapse of
their Marking tools, following the re-
pudiation of Chang Kai-shek and
others by the Chinese masses and
the turn of the masses to the revo-
lutionary struggle as the only way
out of the oppression and misery
inflicted by the imperialists and their
tools that the imperialists have now
turned to direct armed attack on
the Chinese masses. This is clearly
indicated in dispatch from Shang-
hal, which describes the terrific mis-
cry of the Chinese masses, and adds:
This colossal scale of depriva-
tion among the inhabitants OF the
Yangtze Valley has given an i'm
petUs to the Communist movement
which years of intensive work by
propagandists could not accom-
plish, and even IL China had an
actual government without foreign
complications the Communist prob
lem would be serious threat to
the continuance of any constituted
authority"
Chinese Soviet Only Stable Force
In China.
To-day. the only constituted su-
sNority in all China is the authority