The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-23

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Element, setting fire 10 the build
ing. United States warships were
reported TO have been In The line
of fire from the Chinese guns.
japanese Fortify In Hankow AS Red
Army Tightens Net
The japanese imperialists are
throwing up more defenses at Han
kow, as the Chinese Red Armies con-
tinue to tighten their net around
tina important industrial and stra-
tegic Central China city. A Hankow
dispach reports that the Japanese
concession in the city has been for
titled by earthworks supported by
steel and iron plates. All roads into
this area loosed from China have
been blocked by barbed-wire entan-
clements. Sandbag barbados and
machine gun "pillboxes' have been
erected at various strategic points.
These preparations are directed a
gainst the threat of an armed up
rising by the workers in Hankow in
support Of the Chinese Red Army.
The early fall of Kanchow, in
Southern Kiangsi, a Chinese Red
Army force is expected. The United
States imperialists are demanding
that the Marking government send
troops to Kiangsi Province to beat
off the Chinese Red Army. The Nan
king traitors, however, are unable
to carry out this instruction as most
of Kaingsi province is in the hands
of the Chinese Red Army and the
revolutionary workers and peasants.
Attacks on Japanese Increase in
Manchuria.
In Manchuria, too, the japanese
are facing determined resistance at
the hands of Red partisan troops.
Mukden dispatches yesterday ad-
mitted that an important revolt had
broken out against the new puppet
government set up by the Japanese
and their Chinese tools. Two thou
sand Chinese troops are reported
marching on 1mienpo, an important
railway station about $50 kilometers
from Hardin. The dispatches admit
that the Chinese had already driven
out the Japanese garrison of Wukim-
tho, and occupied that town. wiki
niho is 20 kilometers northwest Of
Imienpo. The troops Of the puppet
Chinese governor Of Kirin are re-
ported retreating to the South.
News of Defeats Increases Unrest in
Japan.
The reverses suffered by the jap
anese at Shanghai are intensifying
the unrest in Japan and causing
grave concern to the japanese inn
perialists. The Japanese government
has suppressed news as far as was
possible of the events at Shanghai,
issuing lying statements of tremen-
dous Japanese victories against the
Chinese defenders of Shanghai, but
the news of The Japanese defeats
have leaked out The Japanese gov
eminent is reported to be rushing
more troops to Shanghai. There are
already over 1900 Japanese troops
at that city, although the lying i'm
perialist press has been putting the
figure at little over $4,000.
Japanese Jobless Demonstrate.
Large demonstrations of unen-
ployed Japanese workers were held
yesterday in various districts Of
Tokyo in defiance of police ban
against such demonstrations. Com
munist leaflets we're widely dis
tributed. The police arrested sew
enty of the unemployed workers.
The European border states on the
Soviet frontier are busy carrying or
vicious war provocation against the
Soviet Union at the same time that
the Japanese are consolidating their
hold on Manchuria and pushing
large bodies of troops nearer to the
Siberian borders of the Soviet Union
Two days ago, the Polish fascists
broadcasted over the radio state
ment that the Stalingrad Tractor
factory had stopped the production
Of tractors and was turning out
tanks. They based this statement or
the claim that the Soviet Union had
stopped reporting on the number oil
| tractors daily turned out by the Stall
ingrad factory. Yesterday, the Hun
garian newspaper Reggeh Ujsae
printed a dispatch from ConStanza
Rumania, saying a Rumanian war
ship returning from the North, re-
ported the SOVIET Union was laying
mines near Rumsnia's Black Sea
border, and blocking the entrances tc
Soviet Union ports with mines. Pre-
viols statements broadcasted by the
imperiahsts claiming war prepare
tions by the Soviet Union have been
subsequently admitted to be false
even by the imperialist liars them
selves.
Even the Japanese ~imperiahsts
while carrying on their monstrous
provocations against the Soviet Union
have been forced to admit the firm
peace policy of the Soviet Union.