The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-04

hal masses, has been betrayed by
the Kuomintang and the Com
mander, General Tsai, of the Nine
teenth Army. A Toxic dispatch
reports:
Information raching here indi-
Gated, officials said, that the Chi
neSe armies were not annihilated,
although they were badly shattered
and their morale was low. They
still comprised from 10000 to 10000
men, however, 1t wa seported, and
there was some conjecture here
whether General Chang Kai-shek
would seize an opportunity to dis
arm the defeated Cantonese"
An Example of Horrors of ImperialiSt
War.
Workers. This is an example Of
the horrors of imperialist war into
which the capitalist war mongers are
trying to plunge the whole world in
their attempts to get out of the cri-
| sis at the expense of the hfe-blood
Of the toiling masses, at the expense
of the looting and partition of China,
at the expense of the achievements
Of flouishing Socialism in the Soviet
Union and at the expense of Soviet
| China.
For the horrible butchering Of the
Shanghai Chinese masses, United
States imperialism is jointly respon-
Sible with the Japanese imperiansts.
The Wall Street government while
fighting for the lions share of China,
is supporting japanese Imperialism
on an understanding for the destruc-
ton of the Chinese Soyiets and for
armed Intervention against the work
ers and peasants of the Soviet Un-
ion whose glorious example in over
throwing tzarist capitalism, in abol-
ishing unemployment, in wiping out
race haired, is pointing the revolu-
tionary way out of the crisis of dying
! capitalism for the starving, destitute
masses Of the capitalist countries and
the colonies.
In the Soviet Union Security, In the
U. S. Starvation.
Workers. In the Soviet Union
there is securityI In the capitalist
countries there is increasing unem-
ployment, starvation, mass misery,
mounting suicides of discouraged
workers, and ruling class terror
against the unemployed white and
Negro workers. The Soviet Union is
your hope for the future, your ex-
ample in the struggle against star
Walton! Dying capitalism in its des-
peration is trying to destroy this
hope, this example.
Admit Defense Betrayed by Chang.
Officers of the Nineteenth Route
Army yesterday bitterly aSsailed
Chang Kai-Shek for his refusal to
assist in the defense of Shanghai.
This defense was carried out by
Chinese workers, supported by the
rank and file of the Nineteenth Route
Army who forced their officers TO
lead them against the Japanese. The
officers declare that during the 35
days of the heroic defense of Shang-
hal, Chang Kai-shek sent only about
5000 trops, most of them "unseasoned
fighters A Shanghai dlspatchc re-
ports that the soldiers OF the Nine
teenth Route Army were forced 10
diSarm some of Chiangs troops.
Some of the officers of the Nine
tenth Route Army, including the
Commander, Gen. Tsai, themselves
participated III the betrayal of the
heroic masses Of Shanghai. Gen.
Tsai gave the order to retreat, fol-
lowing a sham truce engineered by
the United States and British con-
Sular agents at Shanghai. Gen. Tsai
also admitted ten days ago that at
that time the Chinese forces could
have driven he Japanese out of
Shanghai, but that he withheld an
offensive for fear of damaging the
property of the foreign imperialists
in the foreign settlement.
Chang Too Busy Numbering Masses.
At Loyang, Chang defended his
failure to fight against the Japanese
invaders with the open and shame
less admission that he was too busy
attempting to butcher the revolu-
tionary Chinese masses in Central
China who are struggling against i'm
perialism. He declared he was han
dicapped" by unexpected Red ac-
tivities in Kiangsi, where Commun-
lists are attacking many cities and
towns. Hupeh Communists also are
said to be dangerously active again,
imperilling Hankow and forcing the
government TO hold in that area
troops originally designed TO rein
force General Tsai Ting chat"
Chang Kai-shek is busy trying TO
destroy the Chinese Soviet districts
where the workers and peasants have
overthrown the rule of the imper-
ialists and their Kuomintang tools,
the Chinese bankers ard rich land
owners. In this, he is carrying out
the orders of his imperialist masters.
AS exposed in the Daily Worker
some days ago, the Wall Street gov
eminent ordered Chang to send
troops against the Soviet districts in
Hupeh and Kiangsi Provinces.
The United States is reported con-
sidering a loan of $5O,0oo,o0o to
Chang to finance his fight against