The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-22
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By ROBERT HAMILTON
CLEAN HANDS

endeavoring to find a formula which
will enable it to clear out of the
Manchurian mess with as little loss
of dignity and prestige as possible,
the Japanese Foreign Office unblush-
ingIy exposes the equally dirty hands
of the western inlperialist powers.
The japanese militarists say: why
do you oppose our actions in Man
churia? You must come into court
with clean hands yourself. France
is preparing to annex the Chinese
provinces of Yunnan and Kwangsi to
its colonial empire of Indo-China,
Tibet is being penetrated by British
interests, which also are waiting to
convert South China, Kwantung and
Fukien provinces into hinterland
of its Crown Colony Hongkong."
Pot Calling Kettle.
When the League pro lorna de-
nounces Japanese militarism in
China, it is merely a case OF the pot
calling the kettle black Britain and
France own valuable concessions on
the Chinese coast, in Shanghai, Can
ton, Weihaiwei and other cities.
And the United States is support
ing" China against japanese aggres-
sion only because, as a more efficient
industrial nation, the Open Door pol
icy ensures its advantages in the
race for the Chinese market.
China is again racked by inferno
cine strife, subsidized by various i'm
perialist nations. In Shantung and
Szechuan provinces the first battles
of the new militarist wars have al
ready been fought.
Last years harvest was good in
China, but the big crop led 20 { drop
in prices, and the peasants 1t has
not become any lighter. The poor
peasants are blocking to the stand
ards of Communism.
Chang Kai- Shek Drive.
Not for nothing did the Lytton Re
port declare that Communism was
the greatest danger to the Marking
Government. Chang Kai-Shek well
understands that his job is not war
for national emancipation from the
imperialist yoke, both in Manchuria
and in the rest of China, but in war
ring against the Chinese Soviet re-
gions.
He launched a drive against the
Red Army around Hankow and sue
ceeded in temporarily forcing it away
from the banks of the Yangtze. The
main body of the Red Army under
the command of Ho Lung retired in
good order-Chiang did not try to
pursue them into Soviet territory.
The second main drive was dir
ected against the Soviet district in
the provinces of Anhwei, Honan, and
Hupeh, because here the Soviet revo-
luton threatens the capital, Nank-
ing, and also controls one of the most
important railroads, the Peiping-
Hankow line.
The counter offensive of the Red
Army soon brought the Kuomintang
attack to a standstill, seven divisions
of the Kuomintang army being Yr-
tually annihilated.
In the central Soviet district the
Red Army seized the initiative and
went over to the offensive. AS a
result of these operations the Soviet
districts in North and South Kiangsi
province have been united for the
first time, with connections estab-
lished with the Soviet region in the
province Of Fukien.
New Soviets Arise.
While Chang Kai-Shek led his
picked troops-not against the jap
anese-but against the Soviet dis
tricts in Central China, new Soviet
district has come into being.
1t sprang up on the borders of the
provinces of Kansu and Shensi in the
North as result of the agrarian rev.
olution and the fight for national
emancipation. The Red Army here,
which was formed out of guerilla
attachments, now numbers over
10000 men. Thus the Soviet revolu-
ton has been extended to Northwest
China.
These are the military results of
the fifth major offensive of the Kuo-
mintang against Soviet China. The
political result is the confirmation Of
Leninism as the teaching of the Sow
let revolution in colonial countries.
P.S.-In the Yangtze valley, where
the rule of the Kuomintang has been
restored by force of arms, Chang is
sued decree ordering the return of
confiscated lands to big landowners,
and the payment of the usurious
debts by the poor peasants. This re-
turn to the old agrarian conditions in
this region will only serve to re-
awaken the revolutionary struggle OF
the peasantry for agrsrian enanci-
patton and will doubtless cause the
renewed flare-up of the revolution in
the Yangtze valley.