The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-04

mission OF the Chinese Inc Japanese
military then threatened to hold the
Soviet Union responsible for the re-
fusal to permit the line to be used
for transportation Of troops. The
Soviet Union has maintained a strict
neutrality, refusing the use Of the
railway to the Chinese troops as well.
A Peiping, China, dispatch reports
that the capture of Hardin was i'm
minent yesterday as Japanese army
Of over 1900 fought back the Chin
,ese defenders of the city. The Jap
anese announced few days ago that
they would proceed from Hardin to-
ward the Soviet frontier.
White Guards Getting Ready For
Attack On Workers Russia
Soviet newspapers yesterday laid
stress on the Japanese intentions in
northern ManchWia and on White
Guard activities in Prague, Czecho-
slovakis, in connection with the mob
ilization of White Guards by the sap
aneSe in Manchuria. The Soviet
papers also reported that the French
and Polish military authorities were
aware of Japan's intention to invade
Manchuria long before September 10,
when the Japanese bonbarded Muk-
den and began their seizure Of Man
churia. 9
The Japanege resumed their ATTACH
yesterday on Shanghai, raining death
upon the Chinese. workers in Chapel
and other sections by bombing planes,
warships and field guns. The Chin
ese troops defending Shanghai in de-
fiance of the orders of Chang Kali
shek are reported to have repulsed
the Japanese troops and to have sunk
Japanese destroyer and cripped two
other Japanese warshipS. The Jap
anese, enraged by their defeat, have
threatened to wipe the Chapel dis
trict off the map. More than 10000
Chinese workers we're killed in the
first bombardment of the Chapel sec
ton four days ago.
Japanese Attack Under Protection Of
Other Imperialists
The Japanese are openly supported
by the other imperialists in their at
tacks on the Chinese masses. A
Shaghai dispatch admits:
Japanese artillery units were in
stalled on the rigle range at the
end of the North Szechuen Road,
which is International Settlement
property. They thus actually car
ried on their battle from neutral
ground, whereas a Chinese soldier
If seeking to enter the settlement
would be shot"
The International Settlement is po-
Iced by United States and British
troops.
Chinese Red Army Controls Central
China
Alarm is expressed by the imperi-
alists over the threat of mass up
rising in Shanghai, where the gen.
eral strike is continuing to spread
with increasing effectiveness. A
Shanghai dispatch reports, that a
wave of furious mass anger Is sweep
ing the working class sections of
Shanghai
The same dispatch admits that the
Chinese Soviet Republic and the
Chinese Red Army control most of
Central China and expresses the fear
that the events in Shanghai will fur
ther strengthen and spread the in
fluence of the Chinese Communists.
1t says:
"The repercuSsion of the events
in Shanghai upon the enormous
area in Central China where the
Reds control practically everything
except the garrisoned cities pre-
sentS problem staggering to the
imagination, for a land surface
equivalent to almost half of Europe
is certain to be profoundly af-
fected."
1t is this problem" that is alarm
ing the imperialistS. 1t is this pro
blem" the imperialists are trying TO
solve by rushing their warships up
the Yangtze River to spread murder
and rapine against the revolutionary
Chinese masses, at the same time
that they are trying to crush the
resistance of the Shanghai workers
and pushing their war moves against
the Soviet Union.
The dispatch further admits that
the garrisoned cities which are still
held by the Kuomintang forces are
encircled by the Chinese Red Army.
Situatiin In Hankow Tense as Red
Army Beleaguers City.
Another Shanghai dispatch reports
a tense situation in Hankow, which is
beleaguered by the Chinese Red Army,
with the workers inside the city
threatening an armed uprising in
support of the Chinese Red Army.
The dispatch reports:
"The Japanese there, protecting
a small, exposed concession, have
erected eleven small forts, dug
trenches and strung liye-wire bar
ricades on all roads leading from
the concession to the Chinese CITY,"
The Kuomintang officials at Han
kow are openly cooperating with the
Japanese imperialists. At Peiping and
Swatow, too, these betrayers of the
Chinese masses have conceded TO the