The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
On the
World Front
by HARRY Cannes
Japan's Secret Plans
China Today
Machado's Graft
= uARRY CANNES.

against the Soviet Union was
long planned by Japanese inn
perialism.
What Baron Giichi Tanaka
advised the emperor Of Japan to do
as far back as July 95, 1927, is now
in the process of being carried out
by japanese bayonets.
On that date, the Baron presented
the emperor with Memorandum
which forecasts the whole secret i'm
perialist policy of the japanese
trusts. Much of what the Baron
urged has been accomplished,
namely, the seizure of Manchuria
as a preliminary move to the seizure
of all of China, and Soviet Siberia
up to Lake Baikal, and then COM
quering of the entire world.
What Tanaka had to say in 1927
about the Chinese Eastern Railway
reads like news today. We quote
him:
"DUT If the C. E. r. belonging
" to Soviet Russia develops In
this district then our continental
policy will receive blow which
will inevitably bring about con.
fiet with Soviet Russia in the
near future. In this case we shall
be obliged to play the role we
played in the Russo Japanese war.
The C. E. r. will become ours just
as the South Manchurian Railway
became ours, and we shall seize
Kirin (the Northeastern province
of Manchuria) as we seized Dali
rem. 1t seems that the inevits
ability of crossing swords with
Russia on the fields of Mongolia
in order to gain possession of the
wealth of North Manchuria Is part
of our program of national deveI-
Opment. Until these hidden
rocks are blown up our vessel
cannot move rapidly ahead. We
must demand from China the
right to build important military
ways. with control of Man
churia, these railways are already
cOmpIeted.-H. g. When these
r-----ways are finished, we can all
North Manchuria to overlooking
with our forces. (AlsO accom-
ca"
EIFTY-ONE prominent Norwegian
scientists, writer's and artists, in
GLIDING Ingeborg Rolling Hagen,
Henrik Sorensen, Hedge Krog and
others signed an appeal demanding
the release Of Ernst Thaelmann and
other anti-fascist prisoners.
The appeal was issued by the
Relief Committee for
the victims of Hitler fascism. This
release movement has
into the remotest COR
ners of Norway. In the small town
of Hamar, nearly the whole popu-
lation, or 500 people, signed the APP
peal.
Eighty-seven protest kilograms
have been sent to Berlin in a few
days. Fifteen trade union groups,
five sports organizations and ten
other workers organizations have
decided to send declarations to
Berlin to demand the release Of
and the other prisoners
Of fascism.
In the large industrial plant Of
Borregaard, the workers collected
sufficient funds to send a special
delegate to Berlin.
EVERY worker and sympathizer of
L the liberation struggle in China
will be happy to hear that China
Today" will appear after its present
August issue (mimeographed) as a
regular monthly printed magazine
THE Far East and China
Today" The August issue is re-
plete with the most up-to-date
on events in China, in
Guiding such articles as: Mao Tse
lungs declaration to Japan; TN
the Kingdom of the Living
Chinese Military Ex-
penditures for Defense Against
Whom" and Chinese Red Army In
Action" by Comrade Chow-en Lai,
only part of which appeared in
the New Masses. Copies can be OBJ
tanned from Friends of the Chinese
People, 1853 w. 18th st. New York
City.
MACHADO has not been as lucky
lsl with his graft as he had been
with the workers bodies he threw
to the sharks. Only few of the
latter bobbed up again, but his
r a + tt n 6 ventures reappear to
plague his accomplices, the Chase
National Bank and the National
City Bank of New York.
Just recently Cuban bondholders
a committee of u. S.
Senators, lawyers and professors to
protect their interests in Cuba, and
to investigate" the graft charges
The Mendieta government sons
time ago issued a report charging
that the $40,000000 loans made to
Cuba by the e-mentioned
banks were "annuled by the vice
and graft Of the Machado regime"
Mendieta forgets to mention the
greater graft of the Wall Street
banks. For every dollar Bloody
Machado grated, the Chase and
National City Bank stole ten. But
they are more skilfull grafters than
the butcher of Havana. Though
there is enough evidence now in
the files of the U. S. Senate to
convict every officer of these banks
for graft, it will never see the light
Of day.
Mendieta is not against paying
the $4,000, 000-out of the hides OF
the Cuban workers and peasants.
However, he sees an opportunity for
bargaining. He knows these loans