The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-26

the Woosung forts unchallenged, al
though the big guns Of the fort could
have sent the transports to the bot
tom of the Whangpoo River The
Chinese General Tsai Ting-chai gives
as his reason for not pushing the
offensive against the japanese that
such action would have imperiled the
imperialists and their agents in the
International Settlement These i'm
perialists have permitted the jap
anese to use the so-called neutral
area as military base against the
Chinese defenders.
Japanese Driven Out OF Three
Manchurian Towns
The Japanese yesterday suffered
several defeats in Manchuria as well
as at Shanghai. Manchurian par
tisan troops drove the japanese out
Of three towns. They occupied the
town Of Hailin, 100 miles from Har-
bin. They consolidated their sue
cesses in the Iminepo region on the
Chinese Eastern Railway east of
Hardin. Partisan troops surprised a
Japanese outpost in the Chinese sec
ton Of Hardin, killing II and wound
ing many more before they we're
driven off by Japanese reinforce
cents.
The Japanese are reported to be.
rushing huge force against the
partisan troops in the Imienpo re-
gion.
In the Shanghai area, japanese
planes yesterday dropped gasoline on
q Chinese town, then flew back and
dropped incendiary bombs, setting
fire to the entire town. The jap
anese planes then swooped down and
opened raking machine gun fire on
the fleeing inhabitants.
Japanese Cut Out Eyes OF Chinese
Bread Seller
A Shanghai dispatch to the New
York Herald Tribune reports the
case Of a Chinese bread-seller whose
eyes were put out by the Japanese.
The dispatch says:
TN the isolation ward I talked
with a Chinese bread-seller, thirty
eight years old, whose unbandaged
face disclosed empty, partially heal
ed eye sockets. He said:
1.-TWO days after the shooting
started, four japanese bluejackets
bought some bread at my shop,
and then offered me $50 If I would
throw hand bombs and set fire TO
buildings in Chapel. i said I could
not destroy the homes and en-
danger the lives of my friends and
countrymen, and they grabbed me,
tied me up and cut out my eyes.
Perhaps I can learn a blind mans
trade, though"
This is the sort Of deliberate ter
ror that the Japanese invaders have
been carrying out against the Chin
ese masses, in the attempt to crush
their heroic resistance to the loot
ing and partition Of China by the
imperialists. Tens OF thousands OF
Chinese workers were butchered by
the Japanese in their aerial bombing
OF the Chapel proletarian district in
Shanghai. Many others have been
murdered behind the lines by the
Japanese who tied the hands of men,
women and children behind their
backs and shot them down or de-
capitated them.
Workers! Demand a stop TO the
slaughter of the Chinese masses!
Stop the robber war in China! Pre-
vent the shipment of troops and
munitions TO the Far Easti Demand
the withdrawal of all imperialist
troops and gunboatS from China
Demand hands off China Defend
the Chinese Soviet Republic! De-
mand the expulsion of the diploma
tic agents of Japanese imperialism,
which is butchering the Chinese
masses and preparing a war of in
tervention against the Soviet Union
and its victorious socialist construc-
toni
Chinese workers in the city of Sw-
atow, on the Yangtze River, yes
terday defied the Kuomintang troops
and attacked Japanese marines and
civilians in that city Two Japanese
bank agents we're badly mauled by
the Chinese workers whose fury a.
gainst the Japanese invaders is
growing. The Japanese are reported
to be rushing two warships against
the embattled workers.
A Shanghai dispatch reports that
the traitor Chinese militarist, Gen.
Ma Chen-shan was shot and killed
yesterday by an indignant Chinese
worker. A few days ago he was for
mally inaugrated by the Japanese
as governor of Heilungkiang pro-
vince. He was one of the principal.
signers of the declaration setting up
a puppet state OF Japanese imperial
ism In Manchuris. He was reported
getting ready to lead his troops a.
gsinst the partisan forces fighting
the Japanese invaders,
The statement OF Secretary OF
State Stimson on United States pol
icy in protecting It's loot in China
was answered yesterday by the jap
anese to the effect that unless Stim-