The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-28
Chinese Workers Correspondence

Route Army at Shanghai toes not seem to
know the prestige of the Imperial Force; that
accounts for their stubborn resistance"
For five weeks since January 18th all events
transpiring at Shanghai have told us fully what
the prestige of the force of the Japanese Empire
is. The prestige manifested through the most
inhuman massacres by means of the most scien-
tific ano up-to-hate arms!
On Feb 22nd two days before the Japanese
Military headquarters at Shanghai prohibited
foreign newspaper men to visit the war zone,
there appeared in the Shanghai Evening Post
ami Murcury an article with the headline of
"Gruesome Sights Mark Race Track" In the
article the observer said:
ST visited Kiangwan Race Course today. The
entrances to my favorite stand are blocked with
corpses, fresh corpseS newly made before my eyes
-. There are women and children among them
women shot through the back, their padded coats
run through with military sabres, children whose
bodies are riddled with bullets men CARRIED as
peasant farmers heaped grotesquely about, their
wounds soaking the ground, The houses are
burned, 1 saw them burned with neat precision
not a wasted match, nor nextra piece of kind
ling And they? Their corpes sweeten the ground
beneath the judges, stand one whose body was
soaked in cnl and now lies charred beneath the
O4AlC4d1S, COWcI Will JILL 1lO CUPS dSdAll
The flames from burning farmhuts throw
curtain of red behind new captive groups of
those who fled the fire An officer turns one of
the peasant-garbed group away, to face the sum-
His shining sabre flashes, up to it's hilt in the
human sheath the body falls second takes its
place and once again the sabre finds it's pulsing
Scabbard. And now diversion, the next tall
and likely lad, is flung unbound face down.
upon the two who clutch the painting earth in
death, and as he falls, volley from six officers
revolvers makes minor outline on his back and
courses up his spine. The volley dies the pistols
now are empty, the jerking figure on the ground
now is still and another takes his turn"
So far as time and space are concerned the
description is exceedingly brief. 1t is just the
observation of the writer over small area,
scarcely more than one square mile, during the
course of few minutes AS a matter of fact,
the Japanese artillery and bombers completely
ruined Chapie, Woosung. Kiangwan and other
towns along the Shanghai Soosung Railway
which districts were homes of five hundred
thousand just few weeks ago.
Revolutionary Ferment Among japanese Troops
In sharp contrast with the imperialist prestige
in plain words, with the brutal massacre of COL
onial masses, however, there has been now
breeding different power power whose mis-
sion it is to do away with the prestige, in the
Japanese troops at Shanghai The power has
gained a strong foothold in the imperialist army
and made important displays of itself during the
past few weeks.
The China Evening News at Shanghai on
Feb. 8. reported: DAY before yesterday, again,
group of 500 Japanese soldiers mutinied
and turned their rifles backward. But they
were disarmed with over one hundred
executed Immediately and the rest sent back
to Japan. 1t was told the latter were also
killed on the way with their bodies all thrown
into the sea-" On the same day, similar news
also appeared in other papers at Shanghai.
This mutny of the Japanese troops at Shang-
hal, however, was not the first one. According
to press reports, early on January 20, there was
a rnutiny of some 200 soldiers of the Japanese
landing force on the front at Chapel and on
Feb IL another of some 300 at Hongkew.
The motive for these mutinies is one and the
same for in each case propaganda articles issued
by the Japanese Revolutionary Soldiers Com
mittee distributed by the mutineers. The
writer happened to have obtained two kinds of
the literature:
l. distributed in the Hongkew district on
Feb 12) Japanese soldier masses at Shanghai
and at Home! Unconsciously we have been dis
patched to Shanghai! What for? We had been
once ordered TO siberia and during another in
stance to Korea and Formosa. Now Manchuria
also becomes the territory under the dominion
OF the Japanese Empire But after all what is
the improvement of our own living conditions?
Let us just think Are not those killed during the
present war toiers of either Japan or China?
The Japanese and the Chinese ruling classes
are still enjoying advantages and privileges!
Let us nberate ourselves from their receptions
and never fight our own brothers again. -
q dound scattered near the line of the
Japanese troops at .Yongtzopoo) Dear Japanese
soldiers: Look! Are we not here fighting our
Chinese soldier brother exclusively for the in
terests OF the capitalists? Let us be bold to
unmask the receptions of our officersl They are
nothing more than hunting dogs of the cap
italists and landlords Let us be determined to
act as the vanguard of the Japanese Red Army
fighting against the Japanese capitalists and
landlords for the interest of our own class of all
worker-peasant toiing masses! Let us join hands
with the Chinese soldiers! Defend the Chinese
Revolution and set up the worker peasant gov
eminent OF Japan! Our slogans: Against attack
ing China! Unite with the Chinese soldier
brothers! Defend the Chinese Revolution! Defend
the Soviet Unionl Build the worker-peasant-