The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-17
Foreign Generals
Admit Marking War Va
on SOviets Failing
RooseveltF inancesWar
Against Chin es 9
Soviet Districts Il
BY HARRY CANNES

Chang Kai-shek's sixth ANTI
Communist Drive, which had for, It's
object the destruction Of the Central
Soviet District in Kiangsi province,
is faring worse than the past. five.
The sixth major war against the
victorious revolutionary workers and
peasants in China was begun by q
$50,000,000 contribution to the. Nan
king war chest by the Roosevelt
regime.
But it is already beset with the
gloomiest forebodings. One of Chang
Kai-shek's foreign military special
lists, returning from Nanchang, the
headquarters of the drive against the
KiaMgsi province, reports that the
drive is q failure.
Following this peSsimistic report
for the rich Chinese 1andholders,
usurers, gentry and eompradores las
well as their imperialiSt backers), the
New York Times dispatch from Nam
king, the Kuomintang capital, on
November IA reports: = 50
Many government officials appear
to share this view, although they are
not committing themselves"
Red Army Victories
While Chang Kai-shek concen-
trated over 100000 soldiers against
the Kiangsi Soviets, after three years
OF the most painstaking preparations,
with millions of dollars from British,
American, Japanese and French
bankers and imperialists, the Red
Army was hurting back his troops on
all fronts.
At the point of heaviest concen-
tration, Kiangsi, we learn that Nam
king government officials and Chang
Kai-shek's highly paid general ad-
NIT defeat.
In Szechuan province, the Red
Army has made sweeping victories.
The small band of Red soldiers. work
ers and peasants, led by Comrade Ho
Lung, that Chang Kai-shek drove
out Of the Red Lake district, near
Hankow, last year. has now sweiled
into an army Of over $4,000, with q
Soviet territory ten times larger than
the one formerly heidi The Yangtze
River is again threatened by the Red
Army. Starting at the Northern sec
ton of the province, entrencfing the
Soviet power among the peasantry
and workers, the Red Army In See
chuan has, without let up, been
smashing its way through over q ter
ritory of over 300 miles, making Its
way to the Yangtze inlet to Szechuan.
The Kuomintang, irnperialist-sup-
ported army, has been futile in its
efforts to stop the advancing Red
Army. Each city captured, each
defeat for the Kuomintang butchers.
has netted the Red Army tens of
thousands of rifles, millions Of rounds
OF ammunition. BY these means
greater masses of workers and peas
ants are armed and the agrarian
anti-imperialist revolution accom-
plished over wide expenses Of Chin
ese territory.
But now the enemy is crumbling in
his own fortress. The catastrophe
crisis which has gripped China from
the inauguration of the rnurderous
rule of the Chang Kai-shek, Soong
regime, is playing havoc with the
Marking butchers. The heightened
imperialist conflicts the world over
is whipping to greater heights the
battles of the Chinese war lords.
Now Marking is faced with new
detection in its own ranks, and at It's
very doorstepS. The latest news from
Shanghai declares that in Fukien
province, where the Red Army OF
Kiangsi achieved such brilliant vic
tories last summer against the famous
18th Route Army, the local war lords
have split away from Marking and
set up their own provincial regime.
But this regime, which is offering
aggression pact to the Red
Army and the Soviet districts, con
tains powerful germs Of its own dis
solution.
Fukien Regime
The Fukien regime Is composed of
the most miserable, right and. .'left"
elements Of the Kuomintang., 1t is
garbage heap of the Chinese bot1r-
geois enemies of the Marking regime,
and is inspired by British imperial
ism in its battle against Wall Street
control Of the Marking regime.
In Fukien, with :. the. 10Th -Route
Army as its base, General Chen Min
Shu, the so-called Third Partyfte"
leader in China, the spouter Of left
phrases, has made an alliance With
the British-supported, extremely right
reactionary forces of General Ii Chi
Sum and HUI Han Min. They have
announced their severance from Nam
king control, and the Chinese press
speaks of Fukien-Soviet alliance.
BY this means, Chang Kai-shek
hopes to wiring more money out of
his American supporterg to protect
Wall Streets market In China against
its chief competitor Great Britain.
But the Red Army makes no such
alliance. utilizing at the same time
to the hilt, the splits and dissensions,
the wars and chickering's between the
imperialist-backed native war lords.
Fukien is not an isolated instance.
Militarist war is raging in many parts
Of China and threatens in others.
There are riffs and riffs in the camp
of the Kuomintang butchers. The
sharp conflict between Canton and
Marking is increasing; while at the
same time, in the very ranks of the
Cantonese war lord, Chen Chi Tang,
there is developing deep splits.
AS result, the shaky. rotten stabil-
ity Of the Marking regime Is further
undermined. Chinese government
bonds. never very strong. are falling
precipitously. The Marking regime
is at its wits end, and as the threat
Of revolutionary success grows. the
imperialists act more openly against