The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
us. WARNS JAPAN
IN QUARREL OVER
CONTROL OF CHINA
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which might challenge the "rights"
of the United States in China. The
present new Marking government is
dominated by the Canton tools of
japanese imperialism. The Canton
clique secured control of the Nam
king government following the col
lase of Chang Kai-shek as a result
of the mass upsurge in China
Chang is a tool of American imper-
ialism.
The Washington note is warning
that the United States does not in
tend to be left out in the looting and
partition of China. 1t is also in the
form of continued and intensified
diplomatic pressure on the japanese
to force them back to the limits of
the agreement for armed ipterven-
ton against the Soviet Union, with
the Japanese acting as the spear
head in the attack on workers Rus
STA and converting Manchuria into q
military base against the Soviet IN
ion. The present clash has been de-
veloping for some time as result of
the japanese attemts to push their
own imperialist interests beyond the
agreement with American imperial
ism, exploiting the chaotic situation
in Kuomintang China and the rise
to power of the Canton agents OF
japanese imperialism.
u. S. Tries Line Up Other Powers
The sending Of the American note
was preceded by secret conferences
for several days between Stimson and
the Ambassadors Of England, France
and Italy. The United States is
trying to line UP these powers for
joint pressure against the Japanese.
Copies Of the American note we're
given yesterday to the representa-
ives of these powers and to repre-
sentatives of Portugal, the Neither
lands, and Belgium. This was done
under the pretense of these powers
being signatories to the Nine-Power
Pact, guaranteeing" the territorial
and administrative integrity of
China.
1t is significant that all Of these
powers hold huge colonial popula-
tons in enSlavement. Norway, SW-
eden, Bolivia, Denmark and Mexico,
while signatories to the Pact, we're
not given copies of the American
note. These latter countries have no
colonial possessions in the strict
sense of the term.
The receipt by the Japanese gov
eminent Of the American note was
followed by the resignation in a body
of the Japanese Cabinet. The jap
anese Emperor refused TO accept the
resignation and requested Premier
Inukai to continue at the head of
the government. The resignation was
carried out as pretended protest
against an alleged attempt to assas-
sinate the emperor during royal
procession through the streets of To-
kyo. An American eyewitness of
the attempt to bomb the emperor's
carriage questions the sincerity of
the attempt He reports;
"As the second carriage passed
me ] noticed a queer sort of gray
object hurting through the air.
Then there was an explosion and
puff of smoke.
Il did not notice any conclusion,
and neither did the crowd, IL seems
although was about forty feet
from the place where the bomb
burst"
The eyewitness is James l.. vier-
hus, an American employed in the
export department of tractor COM
pany with headquarters at Peoria,
Ill.
Japanese Resentfui Over U. s. In
reference
The Japanese government is re-
ported TO be resentful over what it
terms American interference. Indie
ations are that the Tokyo govern
Inent will continue It's invasion Of
Inner China.
A Tokyo dispatch reports:
]
."The japanese Government In
dicated clcarI. to-day thatait might