The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19
On the
World Front
Whose Victories in China7
Capitalist Reports
KuOmintang Crack Troops
By HARRY CANNES

huOmlntang crack Troops
GENERAL CHANG Kali
u SHEK'S report that he
has routed" the Red Army
of Kiangsi must be taken with
a good dose of soya bean
sauce. From the very first
anti Communist drive, Chi
ang Kai-Shek has been making
these reports with the regularity
of pilgrim turning prayer Wheel,
Yet each time he has been forced
to increase the anti-Soviet drive
each time he has been forced to I'M
crease his armies; each time he
has been forced to call on greater
support from the imperiahst pow
ers. And each time the Red Army
has defeated the Kuon1intang forces,
tremendously enlarging the Soviet
territories, increasing their armed
forces, and improving their econs
omy.
Even the foreign correspondents,
who know that Chang Kai Shek's
victory" announcements are made
mainly for export, to increase his
prestige among his imperialist
masters, express their graYest sus-
picion, showing that the sourcs
of these reports is absolutely
worthless.
The seriousness of the anti
Communist campaign" says the
Associated Press correspondent
in Marking, who is very sympa-
thetic to the Marking regime,
however, is easily underestimate.
News about it is scarce. Vir-
tually the only source of infona-
ton is the Nationalist govern
ment itself"
However, to show how absolutelX
faxed Chang Kai Shek's report
about his victory in Kiangsi, seat
of the central Soviet government,
is, we will refer to the outstanding
reports of the anti-Soviet war pub
lished by the leading newspapers
Of finance capital in the United
States, from their correspondents
In China.
m APRIL IA, 1884, the Herald
" Tribune published a cable from
Canton headed: Chinese Reds
Defeat Nationalist, Canton Hears.
10000 Communists Overwhelm Five
Regiments on Border" It goes on
to say: Dispatches said the Com
munists surrounded and disarmed
five regiments of 1000 men"
Then on May IA, 1884, the New
York Times Shanghai correspon-
dent dispatched his paper that:
Communists Gain in Chinese
Areas" We quote briefly from this
story of tremendous victories of the
Red Army:
Dramatic victories by General
Ho Lung, leader of the Communist
army in Human Province, in
SZechuan Province made possible
the capture of the Rev. Howard
Smith The Reds occupied
many roads and captured vast
area, Yangtse cities are threatened
from the northward by Commu-
mist victories in Eastern Hupe1,
Lotien has been captured and
KiShm is threatened. A Commu-
mist army of 10000 men marched
from Kiangsi to Human, captur-
ing Yungshin."
There are many more details tell
ing victories of the Red Armies in
many provinces, including Kiangsi.
But 1t is important to note that
Chang Kai Shek in his victory"
statement mentions not a single city,
not village he captured from the
Red Army.
As RECENTLY as June 2, 1884, the
Al Red Army in Kiangsi, on admis-
sion of the capitalist press, achieved
one of the most decisive victories in
all its history The Red Army had
been Systematically defeating the
Kuomintang forces, arming itself at
their expense, defeating them not
only militarily, but by propaganda,
by winning over huge sections of
the impoverished workers and
coolies driven into the Kuomintang
forces. But on June End. the CAPT.
talist press reported that the Red
Army had defeated the crack. picked
divisions of Chang Kai Shek, divi-
sions trained by the most outstand-
ng military strategist of the last
imperialist war, the Nazi General
Won Seeckt.
The New York Times Shanghai
cable reported that victory as fol-
lows: Chinese Reds Rout Won
Seeckt Army. Force trained by
German is said to have lost 1900
dead and wounded. Chiang's orders
upset. Adviser took reserves from
the rear for a baptism of fire in
Kiangsi battle"
"These troops" says the cable,
(which were considered General
Chlang ka1 Shek'S crack soldiers,
had been held in the rear as re-
serves, but General Hans Seeckt,
former commander of the German
Reichswher, is understood to have
urged the ACCESSIBILITY of a baptism
by fire"
THE soldiers fought well, but
transportation along the SINCE high
way to the front became disorgan-
lied under a flank attack by the
Communists and chaos followed.
The divisions affected in the fight
ing were the Fourth, Ninth, Tenth,
Fourteenth. Forty third, Fifty
ninth, and Eighty-seventh."
Here are names and divisions,
crack troops, destroyed by the Red