The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-18
An Eye Witness View of the Robber
War on the Chinese People
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priests walked through the area,
where thousands of bodies, men,
women and children filled the
streets. Here and there dying
person moaned. The priests COR
daily greeted the Japanese marines
and soldiers as they went along!
MASS EXECUTIONS
: We want to the spot where Com
rade P Low, well known in the
U. S. for his talks in Hands Off
China" meetings, had been living.
Comrade Low was a graduate of
University of Pennsylvania and
Harvard. We found out what had
happened to him. He was among
the thousands who were executed
by the japanese on the first day
wholesale. Shipping was the uni
versal excuse. No record of them
was kept. All were shot! Bodies are
missing to this day. Fishermen
reported that they had seen the
Japanese burning thousands of
corpses and taking them out to sea
to throw overheard
We might mention here the
heroic resistance of the 10th Route
Army. This army supported with
requirements by Shanghai workers
held the line, as is known by most
of you, for days. The Japanese
and other imperialists and their
Marking puppets we're Infatuated.
In the ranks of the army, officers
shot down Communists as quick as
they could discover them. This
was in the 10Th Route Army!
MASS DEFENSE
The men fought long after they
had been ordered to retreat. The
soldiers for the first time in their
lives saw populace supporting
them. Traditionally despised by
the workers, they we're now receiv-
ing all possible aid. Foreign writ
ers and militarists talked for
months of this feature of the battle.
The Japanese Infatuated by this
stern resistance, took it out on
the Chinese masses. They beat
women and children and men In
the streets. Soldiers prodded re-
fugees with bayonets and whole
sale arrests took place.
10000 CHILDREN'S
BODIES
Representatives of the Shanghai
Municipal Council British con-
trolled international body) gath
cred up the bodies of 10000 chill
dren. In addition the bodies of
at least 5000 n-combatant adults
were found. Three times as many
children were killed as we're SOL
diers of both sides during the en-
tire fighting. The Japanese tried
in every manner to prevent for
eigners from seeing these sights.
Soldiers defending Shanghai,
lived on burnt rice husks for days.
We are told that adequate food
supplies for them we're sabotaged
by the Kuomintang leaders.
Countless other scenes Of terror
were observed. We saw the actual
horror of the next imperialst war.
We worked our way through Man
churia, seeing the same terror being
reproduced by thousands Of jap
anese troops, though not observing
any major battles.
Fifty thousand Japanese troops
were in Hardin when we arrived.
Tanks patrolled the streets. White
Guardist Russians (and remember
they were also in Shanghai were
arresting Soviet citizens and dis
posing of them through terroristic
tactics. Masses of peasants and
workers are starving in Manchuria.
Millions live in mud huts. Here,
too, heroic resistance by workers
and peasants is taking place.
We crossed the border at Man
chouli and arrived In Chita, USSR.
Here we're windows In buildings.
Factories humming, workers healthy
looking and happy. The Hammer
and Sickle shielding all. A few miles
behind us we had seen the mobili-
zation Of Imperialism to destroy
this. We must defend and extend
this Hammer and Sickle with its
ssssvIo pssssIddo rs o. u1opss1
and nationalities.