The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05
LZVESTIA REVEALS JAPANESE PLOT TO INVADE U.SSR
Imperialist War Continues
Stop the Robber Assault!


% carest confirmation been given in the last three
days the analysis of the imperiais in the Far
East made by the Central Committee of the Communist
Party, and the Daily Worker, its official organ
The three outstanding events which furnish this
pete confirmation and which stand out of the labyrinth of
lies and distortions by mperiaist press correspondents and
editors,
Q)-The publication of documents whose
thency the capitalist press dare not dispute coming
into the hands of representatives of the Soviet Union
showing the rapid preparation by Japanese imperial
ism of armed invasion of the Eastern provinces of the
Soviet Union.
(2) The continuation of the Japanese offensive
against the Chinese workers and peasants defending
Shanghai and against the rank and file of the Nine
teenth Route Army-in spite of the truce
(3) The open and loathsOme betrayal by Chang
Kaishek Wall Streets puppet dictator in China of the
defense of Shanghai and his capituation to imperast
invasion.
These developments place before the Communist Party
and the American working class sharper form than
before the vital need for the organization of struggle
against the mperast for the defense of the Chinese
revolution and the Soviet Union.
There is in China proper and in Manchuria grow
ing popuance struggle against the imperast powers and
their native mtarist representatives. like Chang Kashek
and General Mawho in Manchuria betrayed the Chinese
struggle for liberation and carried through series of provo
cations for Of japanese imperialism against the Soviet
frontier.
Latest dispatches through Associated Press state
that number of detachment of the army of General Ma
have revolted and taken control of Manchu and Haar,
strategic points the western division Of the Chinese East
Railway 1t is evident that in Manchuria the OF
the countryside of the towns and cities and the rank and file
of the carrying resoute struggle against the
Japanese conquest.
1t is likewise clear that the heroic struggle against the
Japanese and around Shanghai which and
allowed to the international Settlement base,
organized conducted by the official forces of the
Chang Kashek government in spite of the fact that the
imperat press tried create new hero the person of
General TsngTa but that this determined resistance which
stopped the Japanese offensive and amazed the military
pers of the mperast world carried in the face of
he oft
at various times the workers and peasants and rank and file
of the soldiers had to dsarm counerevoutionay forces
sent to the front by the government with the consent of
General Tsing-Tai.
is doubtful if in all history of the struggles of work
and peasants against mpert conquest there has been
despcabe attempt at betrayal than that of the Chi
ang Ka-shek wing of the imperast ouposts in China
Speaking of the forces of the Chinese defenders the
last days of the onslaught the New York Evening Post for
Thursday March Toxic Associated Press dispatch said:
"They still comprise than 10000 to 10000 men,
reported and there conjecture here whether
General Chang Kash would seize opportunity to dis
the defeated Cantonese"
All these circumstances show that the League of Ma
TONS the representatives of American imperialism and its
agents at Geneva and in China in arranging the socaed
ruce had only in mind to demoraize and crush
the defense against the mpeast invasion and that
the imperalst antagonsms between Japan and America
the question of which to rule and loot the Chinese
in the Yngtze ubordnated to the general
necessity for stemmng the rising tide of the workers and
peasants revolution against imperialism throughout China
The main strategy of American Imperialism during the
course this entire murderous onslaught upon the Chinese
and children has been to force Japan out of the
Yangtze River and make her c0ne the center of her
military attacks to the Far Eastern frontier of the Soviet
Union-that is, through Manchuria.
The document secured recently by representatives of
the Soviet Unon official document of the Japanese Foreign
Office and War Ministry give added strength the evidence
that Wall Street Hoover utilizing to the ut
that faction in Japanese mperaist circles which
the conquest of Manchua and the invasion of the
province of the Soviet Union the out of the deepen
ing economic crisis and rising class struggle There three
sets of these documents which state:
Il consider it necessary to assume firm policy
with relation to the Soviet Union and to be ready to
start at any moment. The purpose of such
must not be only to protect Japan against Communism,
but occupy the Soviet Far East and Eastern Siberia
The second states:
Taking into consideration the armed forces of
the Soviet Union, must begin Any delay
would conditions favorable for them and
consider necessary that the empire start the
against the Soviet Union quickly possible There
must be propaganda to attract the western neighb0rs