The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-03

International Settlement. Chinese
Shippers become active at every OPP
pOrtunity.
IAN attempt to explode the
japanese cruisers Ole and Idzumo
the latter the flagship of Admiral
N0mura-with mines floating in
the WhangpOO River yesterday
gave the foreign settlement its
worst fright"
The Kuomintang militarists imme-
diately denied responsibility for the
attack on the Japanese warships and
apologized to the japanese and other
imperialist enemies of the Chinese
masses.
u. S., British Troops Attack Refugees
United States and British troops
yesterday attacked Chinese re4lav-5
attempting 10 escape an aerial
bOmbardment by japanese planes
dropping 250-pOund bombs on
crowds of refugees. The refugees,
attempting to get into the Inter
national Settlement, were met by
the Unied States and British troops
who attacked them with clubs and
rifle butts, holding them up and
making their rear ranks an easy
target for the japanese bOmbers.
| Many hundreds were killed and
manned by the Japanese bombs.
A Shanghai dispatch reports in
tense activities on the part of Chin
ese Communists in rallying and Or
ganizing the destitute refugees and
tens of thousands of unemployed
| workers for resistance against the
imperiaIsts and their Kuomintang
agents. Many soldiers in the Kuo-
nintang armies are rallying to the
leadership of the Chinese Communist
Party, leading the Japanese to ex-
press doubt of the ability of the Kuo-
mintang Ito keep its troops to the
terms of the arlnistice."
Communist Agitation Among
japanese Forces
The japanese are also gravely con-
cerned on the growing unrest in the
japanese forces at Shanghai which
is fostered by an extensive campaign
of Chinese and Japanese Commu-
nists among the troops. A Shanghai
dispatch reports:
10 nIS.t that Chin
csc Communists in Shanghai have
become extremely busy and arc
now even distributing Communist
literature urging a mutiny by jap
anese soldiers and sailors"
Eugene Chen yesterday admitted
that China has been betrayed again
but attempted to cover up his owr
| part in that betrayal by placing full
blame for the latest treachery on the
| Wall Street Butcher Chang Kali
shek. Chen admitted that the --latest
betrayal of China had made of the
gallantry Of the Nineteenth Army 8
tragic sacrifice because China today
lacks leadership competent To giyt
direction to the great rising patriotic
impulses of the masses
This is the same Chen who hal
many times engaged in bloody at
tacks on the revolutionary Chimes
masseSi
! lie declared that Chang continue
a non-resistance policy toward tn
Japanese, a policy which many in
volYe "the abandonment OF all China
coastal river ports and the retire
ment Of the Chinese armies to point
in tho interior difficult of attack
Euomintang Planes Sent Against
Soviet Districts
Chen further admitted that Chisnl
and other Marking officials hat
blocked the sending of reinforcement
to the Shanghai defenders. He ad'
Initted that the failure to send TIN
large fleets of Marking and Cantor
planes against the japanese was be
cause these planes wee being used II
the interior against the revolutionary
masses and their Red Armies.
Chen, who q few months ago
openly supported the japanese
seizure of Manchuria, predicted
ION good information, no doubt
that the japanese will begin
military movement up the YangtEe
coast Chinkiang and Marking as
volutionary struggl against tn I'M
pralst brgands and hrs ?jKrag ainedtt
far as Hankow.'
Such a move would be directed
against the Chinese Soviet District;
and the Chinese Red Armies. thu
only force in China leading O. re-
yo1utionary struggle against the I'M
perialist brigands and their Kuomin'
tang tools Japanese troops are al
ready al Hankow, where they have
turned the japanese concession int
q fortress against The hankow work
ers and the Chinese Red Armies OPP
Grating around Hankow. Japanese
United States and British Warshipt
are attacking the Red Armies and
the Soviet districts.
Japan ese Business Men Admit y. s
support
The Denkikoyokai, the Electrical
Association OF Japan, yesterday
broadcasted an appeal to foreign In
terests TO support the Japanese I'M
perialists against the rising anger o.
the masses in the American ,aIlc
European imperialist hountries. T'ht
appeal points out that the the actt