The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-21
Manchurians
Desert Army
of japanese
Pravda Shows Failure
Of Imperialists to Build
Power in China

MOSCOW. Sept. 20. (Bv Wireless
On the third anniversary of the
Japanese occupation of Manchuris.
leading article in Pravda, official
organ of the Communist Party re-
views these three years Of Japan
csc imperialism.
These three years nave been
sufficient to finally expose the real
nature of this adventure by Japan
csc imperialism" Pravda points
out.
The seizure of this enormous re-
gion, with its population Of 100000
000 was an act of direct imperialist
plumber and can be concealed by
no maneuver of japanese diplomacy,
which has always depicted the oc-
cupation of Manchuria as a neces-
sary step towards the 'pacification
of the East and the result of the
Manchurian Nationalist movement"
the Communist Party organ de-
clares.
Japanese Lies Were Futile
mo one believed the occupation
lists when they stated that Japanese
troops will leave Manchuria after
fulfilling their tasks No one be-
lieved them, when for the purpose
Of legalizing their seizure of Man
churia, they hurriedly gathered to-
gether handful of hireling Jap
anese politicians and generals and
with these. in March 1882, under the
threat Of Japanese rifles, proclaimed
Independent Manchuris.' Nor was
anyone deceived by the coronation
of Pu VI" Pravda states.
This person, seated on a throne
imported from Toxic and sur
rounded by Japanese advisers and
gendarmes, was supposed to person
ify the independent source of gov
eminent power in Manchuria.
"The real meaning of Manchurian
independence has been exposed by
the Japanese seizure of all decisive
posts in the state apparatus of
Manchuria, from the central gov
eminent to the counties, together
with the transfer of Manchurian
railways, banks, foreign trade, and
mineral wealth into Japanese hands.
There has been mass confiscation
of Chinese land for Japanese
reServists, innumerable seizures of
Chinese enterprises, and finally, the
stationing of Japanese army, 100,-
900 strong, in Manchuria," Prsvda
says.
Japanese Fail In Manchuria
How do the Manchurian masses
appraise this regime of Japanese
occupation?
"The answer" declares Pravda,
comes in the struggles for eman-
cipation by the Manchurian rebels
against the occupationists. They
have never ceased for single day
during these three years. 1t is an
unquestioned fact that during three
years of rule in Manchuria, the
Japanese military clique has not
formed the least social basis for
their power here. Power is main
tanned solely by bayonets. They
cannot trust even the army and
the state apparatus of Manchukuo
which they themselves formed.
Manchurians Crush Legend"
This is shown with special clear
ness by the daily desertion to the
side of the rebels of units of the
Manchurian army, squadrons, pla-
toons, companies and entire guard
formations" asserts Pravda.
"The ruling classes of Japan
consider that their greatest
chance for success consists in the
legend, created with the assistance
of fascists and social-fascists, that
Japan will emerge from the
crisis with the aid of of Man
churia," denounces Pravda.
"Disillusionment has spread
rapidly in Japan. A wave of strikes
has hit Japanese factories. Con-
f1icts in the Japanese villages show
that the workers are now aware of
the true nature of military rule
which has now revealed itself COM
pletely to the masses by reducing
the real wage, by raising prices, by
still further increasing the indebt-
edneSs of the villages and intensi-
flying class contradictions in this
country, Pravda states.
1.-THE increase of the government
debt by two billion yen (the cost
of the Manchurian adventure to the
Japanese) is heavy burden on all
taxpayers.
Three years of Japanese occu-
patton in Manchuria have shown"
declares Pravda, that the seizure
of Manchuria has created a center
of unrestrained military adventur-
ism in the Far East, that Japanese
imperialism has erected fatal
menace to the cause of peace, and
that it is awakening and systematic
ally inflaming most unrestrained in
stincts of plumber, annexation, and
military violence"