The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05

Behind a diversity Of activities,
aims and views affecting the ques-
ton Of peace negotiations with
Japan it is obvious that an enorm-
GUS wave of feeling against Chang
Kai-shek is sweeping the country"
Fighting Continues At Shanghai
Mass resistance against the jap
anese continues at Shanghai The
Kuomintang officials are making
every effort to disar1n the masses.
United States and British troops are
searching Chinese workers for arms.
Severe fighting broke out last night
between the retreating Nineteenth
Route Army and the japanese. A
Shanghai dispatch reports the re-
capture of the town Of Liuho by the
Chinese soldiers and workers after a
bitter fight which lasted several
hours. The Japanese were said to
have fallen on the retreating Chin
csc in an effort to annihilate these
troops which had defied the orders
of the Kuomintang and joined the
Shanghai masses in resisting the
Japanese invaders.
Woosung Garrison Defies Orders To
Retreat
The garrison of the Woosung forts
defied the order Of the Marking gov
eminent to retreat and fought the
japanese to the death. The entire
garrison has been annihilated. A
Shanghai dispatch to the New York
Daily News reports as follows this
epic of the heroisn of the Chinese
defenders of Shanghai:
when the field guns failed TO
sill their mOcking tongues, naval
bombing planes took the air and
added thc'c fry to the unequal
contest
There were not so many Of the
200 left to laugh by this time. Their
field guns were caught In the ter
rifle explosions of the aerial bombs
and tossed about as If they had
been toys. Stiu figures in faded
gray calico again sprawled within
the ramparts, whence SO many had
been borne before.
But the survivors-their last ar
tillery effort siIenced caught up
rifles and manned machine guns to
face the final Japanese assault.
ut was soon over. Naval Land
ing parties and Japanese infantry
advanced in overwhelming num-
bers. Their artillery laid barrage
on the Chinese position, in which
no adequate defensive fire could be
maintained"
u S.-British Engineered Betrayal
The betrayal of the heroic Chin
csc masses Of Shanghai was carried
out by the Kuomintang at the orders
Of the United States and British i'm
perialists. The fake truce which pre-
eeded it was engineered by the Brit
ish and United States consular
agents at Shanghai. The frightful
hatchery Of the Chinese masses now
taking place is being carried out by
the Japanese, United States and
British imperialists. United States
troops have fired on crowds of Chin
ese refugees fleeing the Japanese ter
ror and trying to gain entrance into
the international Settlement.
The whole imperialist world Is re-
presented at Shanghai by troops and
warships, which are being used a.
gainst the Chinese masses, to crush
the Chinese Revolution and to carry
out the looting and partition OF
China as a prelude to the planned
armed intervention against the Sow
let Union.
Workers. Rally to the defense of
the Chinese maSseSl Demand hands
off Chinai Demand the withdrawal
of American warships and troops
from China! Prevent the shipment
of troops and munitions to the Far
Eastl Drive out the diplomatic agents
of Japanese imperialism which is
butchering the Chinese masses and
acting as the spearhead for war
against the Soviet Unionl support
the heroic struggles of the revolu-
tionary Japanese and Chinese mas
Sesl
Find Bodies OF Muir cred Babies In
Chapel
A Shanghai dispatch reports that
removal yesterday of the bodies OF
more than 100 babies from one de-
yastated area of the Chapel prolet-
arian district Of Shanghai. This is
the district against which the Jap
anese concentrated most of their
s,ry in the attempt to crush the re-
kstance Of the Chinese masses. over
ten thousand Chinese workers, laen,
women and children were slaughter
ed in this district alone by the Jap
anese aerial bombardment. A Shang-
hal dispatch to the New York Times
says:
"The number of Chinese civil
lians killed in the early days of
aerial bombing and artillery shell
ing of Chapel will never be known.
1t must run to a staggering figure,
for uncounted thousands Of wound