The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
On the
World Front
News from China
Selling Manchuria
de Matin" on China
Through Mongolia
BY HARRY CANNES

SOMEWHERE in Chins
~ there is the office of the
Chinese Workers Cores
pondence," where workers
and intellectuals risk their
lives to provide news on he
revolutionary struggles n
China and of the Soviet dist. S.
I have just received their latest
bulletin. I have on hand also the
speech of Comrade Mao Use Tung,
chairman of the Central Soviet
government of China, delivered at
the recent Second Congress of the
Soviet Government Besides, we
have the most exhaustive economic
analysis of the catastrophe crisis
in China and the conditions of the
workers and peasants 1 have yet
seen.
In future columns I will publish
some of the most salient facts and
statements in this column.
Just now Chang Kai-Shek is
striving to come to an agreement
with the Japanese guaranteeing
their domination in Manchuria,
and opening the way for their
further penetration in North
China. The chairman of the Pep
ing North China political coun-
Gil, Huang Flu is the go-between
for Chang Kai-Shek and the
Japanese invaders.
Chang Kai-Shek recently held
conference In Nanchang in order
to satisfy Japan and yet at the
same time arousing the minimum
of anti-imperialist struggles among
the Chinese masses.
I'm anticipation of the storm Of
protests from the masses" says the
Chinese Workers correspondence,
Marking has to proceed cautiously.
The Marking conference is dis
cusSing the measures to be adopted
against the growing anti-Japanese,
anti-imperialist, ti-Kuomintang
(Chinese Nationalist Party move
ment led by the Communist Party
of China, which receive fresh i'm
petus from the new sale of the K.
M. T."
IN LIE MATIN," the leading Or
gan of French imperialism, or as
a Russian writer put it, "the bour-
geoisie turned newspaper" there APP
peared an item recently from one
of its correspondents in Chunking,
Szechuan Province, declaring that
the imperialists were seeking to es-
tablish international control over
China; and that Roosevelt had sent
a representative to discuss the ques-
ton.
England sent Cadogan, Amer
lea Smith, and France me,s
writes M. PalOi, ito make investi- q
cations in the Yangtze Valley, in
the Huangho Valley, and in
Yunnan Kweichow- Kwangtung =
Kwangsi, respectively, with view
of instituting international con-
troll over China. 1 finished my
survey in Yunnan, Wangtung and
Kwangsi."
IN NORTH CHINA, the japanese
are strongly entrenching them
selves. wrestling the land, mines and
industry away from the Chinese
people. The japanese control over
one quarter of the largest norther9h
province, Hopei. They own tn
mines in Tsinhua, Hsinglung, Min
sien. They control the important
Peiping- Mukden railway
Imperialism controls 10 per cent
of all industrial investments in
North China, with the British and
japanese battling nip and tuck
for domination. The strongest
British position is in the KaiIan
mines, with an annual production
Of 100000 tons, or 81 per cent
of the entire Chinese output.
Ninety per cent of the 10000
miners in KaiIan are indentured
slaves, working under contract.
The iron mines in Chahar and
North Hope, in the so-called de-
militarized zone Chat is, the IONS
from which Chang Kai-Shek with.
drew all troops to make it easy for
the japanese to seize everything)
have fallen to the Japanese i'm
perialists.
CEVERISH anti-Soviet war prep
l arations are being carried on by
Japan in North China. The mat
ter is discussed quite openly in the
Chinese press. On April 8, the
Shanghai Shun Pao, the leading
Chinese newspaper in that city, de-
clared that the japanese were pre-
pairing their first, second and third
line of attack. The first is in Sin
an-lin, in Manchuria, the second in
the province of Helunkiang, and
the third at the Great Wall.
T he Tientsin newspaper, Ia
Kung Pao, tells of military activities
in Chahar Province, Inner Mon
golia directed against the Soviet
OHloH. Inc japanese ann, through
this province, is to cut the Trans
Siberian railway, blocking military
connections in the Far East along
the border of Manchuria The
Japanese, also. are aiming at China
through Eastern Mongolia. In prep
aration, the Japanese troops have
built a wireless station at Shilin-
gorek, and have advanced to Dolonor
and Kuyan in Eastern Mongolia.
To facilitate her military OPP
erations against the Soviet Union,
the Japanese have built a net
work of military roads and air.
dromes in Chahar and Suiyan,
recruiting 10000 to $4,000 Chinese
workers in the Ncrth for Con
struction work" Some of the
workers. are compelled. under