The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
J.. AND JAPAN
RUSH WAR MOVES
IN THE PACIFIC
Workers Must Answer
With Decisive Fight
on War Mongers

With the concentration at Hawaii
by the U. S. Government of what is
admittedly zone of the mightiest
armadas" assembled since the World
War, the japanese Navy department
yesterday revealed that the japanese
Navy will carry out a counter maneu-
yer this year southwark of the
islands composing the territory of the
Empire Previous reports are TO the
effect that the Japanese naval
maneuyer has been set forward two
months and will take place at the
Caroline and Marshall Islands, be-
tween Hawaii Guam and tfle Phil
ippines, outposts of U. S. imperialism
in the Pacific. The Washington Gov
eminent has accused Japan of forti-
flying the Caroline and Marshall
Islands, which are held under &
mandate from the League Of Nations
Further proof Of the increasing
tension between e. s. and Japan
csc Imperialism over JapaUs pres
ent threat to Wall Streets spheres
of influence and concessions in
China are contained in dispatches
reporting IL an attempt at meet
ing of the budget committee of the
Japanese Diet to force Fore gn
Minister Uchida TO question the
u. 5. ON the concentration of its
entire Battle Fleet in the Pacific.
and ~ construction of bombproof
shelters by U. S. troops at Chin
wangtaO, a few miles south Of
Shanhaikwan, North China city
occupied by the japanese in their
advance into Jehol Province and
North China.
In the meeting Of the budget conf
nittee of the japanese Diet, a MEM
Der suggested that relations between
the two powers might be threat
ened' by the U. s. feet maneuvers
around Hawaii. Uchida declared it
would be improper" TO question the
U. s. Government on the matter.
Japans answer will be a counter
maneuver directly between the U. S.
possessions in the Pacific.
In announcing the maneuyer. jan
anese Navy Minister, Admiral Mineo
OSumi, declared:
The southern islands, such as the
BOninS and even the inundated
maneuVer off them we are only
groups, are our home coast. If we
doing what the American Navy does
when 1t maneuvers off California,
Panama or Hawaii"
The japanese maneuvers, like the
U, 5. fleet maneuVerS, will involve
the entire navy.
A Honolulu dispatch TO the New
York Herald Tribune admits that
the U. 5. maneuvers are considered
the most momentous in Pacific
history" More than $4,000 sailors
and soldiers will participate. Ten
thousand soldiers are already con-
centrated in Hawaii, with every
modern equipment, including heavy
artillery, anti-aircraft guns and a
large fleet of bombing and combat
planes.
The U. s. has recently placed a
large order for additional planes, in
GLIDING SO of the latest type bombers.
1mperialist war is already on in
NiiAlAd anu OOuIIl america. The
toiling masses of the world are now
threatened with a transition of these
wars into a world imperial.st war,
more terrible than the last world war.
The rapidly developing war situation
calls for immediate and decisive
action by the workers and all persons
sincerely opposed to war. We must
at once strengthen the international
proletariat front against the capital
ist war-mongers by setting up anti
war committees in the shops and
neighborhoods, by intensifying the
struggle against our own bourgeoisie,
against the hunger and war program
of the Wall Street Government
against the increasingly murderous
terror against the Negro and white
workers, by which the imperialsts
are attempting to ''pacify" the home
front in preparation for imperialist.
war, directed mainly, so far as the
can control events.
against the Soviet Union and for the
partition and lootsnR Of China,