The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26

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panese are planning to send the
nghai. This would mean thirty
Sthousand additional troops in or
der to smash the militant resist
ance of the Chinese.
The brutal butchery of the jap
anese imperialists is admitted by
American reporters in the Shang-
hal area. T. o. Thackery, manag-
ing editor of the American-owned
Shanghai Evening Post-Mercury,
reported in his paper Of Feb. %
the butchery he witnessed from
the Kangwan International Race
Club.
81 stood there in the grand
stand with one of my reporters"
he wrote, "and watched what
happened to those Chinese pris-
oners in the hands of the Jap
anese.
"a Japanese officer turned
4 one of a group of Chinese In
l peasant garb to face the sun.
His shining saber flashed up to
the hilt in its human sheath.
A second figure took its place
and once again the saber found
its pulsing scabbard.
There were women and chill
dren among the cOrpses. Women
shot through their padded coats
and run through with sabers.
Children whose bodies were rid.
died with bullets. Men CARRIED
as peasants were heaped gro
l. tesquely about, their wounds
d soaking the ground"
2 He told also how he had seen
re a farmer boy flung face down
lie on the ground and shot to death
il by japanese officers.
" An Associated Press reporter
It described the brutal murder of al
re old woman in the same area:
n Il visited the nO-man's land
~ north of the village of Kiang-
= wan today, where most of the
~ heavy fighting has taken place
le during the last two or three
N days, and found there the
III marks of reign of terror.
- "m the middle of the war
~ torn area | saw an old Chinese
n woman sitting in an open field,
n weeping and wringing her
- hands, ignorant of all but the
r. starkest externals of what was
e. going on about her and entire.
is- ly helpless 10 protect herself.
=, "SOme distance to the right, a
he Japanese soldier appeared, while
" | was looking, followed by sew
no eral more, close behind. The
leading soldier raised his rifle
aimed at the woman and fired.
He missed. The woman con-
tinued to weep. her face buried
In her hands. The riflemar
leisurely aimed again and fired
This time he scored with dead.
ly accuracy. His bullet sem
the helpless victim into eterni
~ ty. His comrades pushed for.
ward.
vi Large numbers of Chiness
dead could be seen before ths
: burning ruins of what had beer
IN their homes. / saw 10 Chimes,
dead piled beside cart path
Examination revealed that tn
hands of all of them were tie,
me behind their backs.
on, 81 passed the burning ruin
re- of the home of a peasant. TIL
ny. fire had burned down almost 4
les the ground. In front of it wer
hts the bodies of an old man sn'
use woman, apparently its forme
ag- occupants.
/ a Farther on ! passed anothe
the burning homestead. In front %
not it were scattered five dead Chi
ses nese, including one woman"
of Twenty thousand Chinese wor
~. ers and their families are refuge
e. in the vicinity of Marking. The
nj workers have been driven fro
-. their homes by the Japanese n
70 perialist butchers and are now
-, the verge of starvation. Tn
- are being fed one meal a day
porridge.
This butchery, this slaught
Ma this misery is being heaped on I
yon Chinese masses by the Japane
Yer imperialists to break their resi-
ada, ance, to permit the division a
j. looting of China by the imperi
ner, lists. The silence of the other i
d. perialists, the United States, Ell
tied land, France, and Italy proves Il
Gin they are at one with the Japan.
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