The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
BY R. DOoNPING

The imperialist partitioning of
China now has far graver impnca-
tons than before the World War.
1t has become part of the struggle
between the two worlds, the world
Of imperialism and the world of
Socialism. The partition of China
is closely tied up with the drive of
the Imperialist Powers for a war
against the Soviet Union and the
destruction Of the Chinese Soviet
districts.
Both Czarist Russia and Japan
were prevented from entirely swal-
lowing up Manchuria before the
war by rival imperialists in West
ern Europe and America. But in
1881 no European or American
Power offered any effective opposi-
ton, except empty verbiage, to
Japan's virtual annexation of Man
churia. Evidently, Japan reaped
the benefit of her position as the
Far Eastern spearhead in the inn
perialist design for war against the
Soviet Union. The anti-Soyiet issue
occupies such a paramount place in
the mind of the British ruling class
that, in addition to Manchuria, they
were willing to permit Japan to eX-
tend her influence to North China,
where the Kailuang mines, the larg-
est coal mining enterprise in the
Far East and an outstanding British
concession, was situated. Japan is
now proceeding to consolidate her
position in North China, which she
acquired through the Tanku agree
ment with Chang Kai-shek, and to
penetrate further in Mongolia. On
June IL, the Tientsin Yee- Shin Pao,
an influential Catholic daily in
North China, reported that Japan
plans shortly to seize Chahar and
Suiyuan, two provinces in Inner
Mongolia, and set up a Great Mos
lem state to include the northwest
ern provinces of China.
Japan Plans New Coup
In fact, Japan has already opened
custom houses in eastern Chahar
and placed all government institu-
tons under their control. Under
the Washington dateline Of July 10
William Philip Simms, Scripps-
Howard Foreign Editor, reports that
according to reliable advices from
the Far East just received by the
writer. new coup designed tc
enlarge Japan's slice of Asia at the
expense of China is impending" ano
that "the entire area between the
Great Wall and the valley of the
Yellow River, including the Peiping
and Tientsin area. is being sys-
tematically 'ripened' to fall into the
lap of Nippon"
While Japan is clipping off the
map of China from the northeast
Great Britain is engaged in the
same work in the west and north
west. Tibet has long been known
as a sphere of influence of Great
Britain, which is now taking full
advantage of the recent death OF
Dalai Lama, the ruler of Tibet and
a notorious British agent, and the
quarrel over succession to conso-
ldiate her position. Further north
ward. the British agent, Sheldrake
lf-styled king of Sinkiang" Chin
csc Turkestan), supported by the
Second East India Company, a firm
with large business interests in
South Sinkiang, is engaged in con-
verting Sinkiang into a puppet state
Of Great Britain. The China Press
of Shanghai, an American mouth
piece, reported on June 4 that, af-
ter a series Of conferences between
the British agent Sheldrake ane
various Moslem representatives, g
decision to establish an Eastern
Turkestan Empire" with its capita
in Kashgar, was adopted.
Move Against Soviet China
The partition of China is accom-
panied by a systematic attempt OF
the Imperialist Powers to stamp out
the revolutionary movement of the
Chinese masses, and above all tc
wipe out Soviet China. which is the
rallying point and base of opera
tons for the heroic struggle of the
Chinese people to liberate China
Using Chang Kai-shek as theil
chief agent for this purpose, the
inperialists are supplying him with
loans and ammunitions, American
financial and political councillors
and German military advisers. OF
course, the imperialists do not and
cannot cooperate in an organized
way without friction. Loans and
ammunitions to China mean trade
and profit and increase of political
influence and economic control of
which each Imperialist Power de-
Slres larger share. But they all