The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-22
World Front
by HARRY CANNES -
Chang Kai Shek's Threats
Against His Own Army
Mao Use Tung Answers

/ ClOllctI NOllSI CoS VI lilS huO-
mintang on November IL, and
announcing the humiliation Of
the Soviets and Red Army in at
least one province of China have
been utterly shattered.
Proof that the Kuomintang troops
are refusing to fight the workers
and peasants armies, or do so un-
der the greatest threats of execu-
ton by their own officers, is con-
tanned in the latest reports on
Chang Ksi Shek's latest order to
the Fukien KNIT forces. The China
Weekly Review comments:
AN order has been received by
the Foochow authorities from Gen.
eral Chang Kai Shek requiring the
complete liquidation Of the remnant
Red outlaws in Fukien province be-
fore November IL, the date for the
| convocation of the 5th National
Congress of Kuomintang Delegates,
and threatening severe punishment
of those military units failing to full
fill their duties within the stated
period
AS the 18th Of November nears.
the nti-Communist drive instigated
by the butcher Chang Kai Shek
with the aid of Japanese. British.
American, French and other inn
perialist powers assumes tremen-
dous ferocity. Not relying on the
massing of over 100000 Kuomin-
tang soldiers alone, Chang Kai Shek
depends more and more on aerial
bombardment. artillery attack, the
building of block-houses, and the
economic blockade. BY bombarding
villages, killing men, women and
children, he hopes to terrorize the
population in the Soviet areas. BY
his block-houses, he strives to hem
the Soviet districts in with a series
Of forts, and by the economic block
ade to starve out the Red Army and
Soviet population
Answering Chang Kai Shek's re-
peated claims of victory" Mao Use
Tung, Chairman of the Central So
Wet government, in an interview
with Feng Chung Agency, re-
Gently made the following state
ment:
OUR strength can never be mag
" ined by the KNIT bandits, who,
pointing to their alleged sweeping
success, have long since predicted
the approach of our end. In fact.
it is the KNIT that, rotten to the
core, is rapidly heading for the
abyss. Chang Kai-shek always
boasts of the construction of one
line of blockhouses after another
covering several thousand Ii of
Soviet territory, hoping to score in
the near future victory for policy
that is calculated to catch the fish
by pumping out the water!
True, Chang has built up null
titude of blockhouses, seized couple
of districts from us, hoping to oc-
cupy Changing, Shichen, Ningtu
and Shinkuo but he withholds from
the public the truth that many
KNIT units have persisted under the
iron fist of the red army Chang
and Co. is too much fool to under
sand that the approach of the end
does not refer to the Soyiets and
red army but to the landlord-bo
geois KNIT itself and to imperialism
which directs Chang and the whole
KNIT.
These are incomp. ehensible to
the KNIT, Let us single out two
things for further Qualification. In
the first place over LOCO, 900 men are
compelled to attack us. 1t is a mys-
terry to the KNIT that this huge mass
of soldiers, mostly, coming from
Kiangsi, Szechuen, Human, Fukien.
Hupeh, Anwhei, ETC., is going
through revolutionary education
in Soviet territory which, we may
say, constitutes revolutionary uni
verSity for the KNIT soldiers. For
this reason, not the red army alone
but the KNIT soldiers as well are
digging graves for Chang, a fact
that is so much Babylon language
| to Chang.
Secondly, the KNIT tries to sell
| the country by a series of humiliat-
ing acts and from day to day kneels
down before the Imperialism which
is the deadly enemy of the masses,
/ handing half of China over to Jap
anese imperialism. Not one shot is
fired at the several hundred thou
sand japanese robber troops over
running China. But, on the other
hand, all troops have been with
drawn from Manchuria, Jehol, Pek-
ing, Tientsin, Shanghai, Hangchew,
Hankow, Tonan, Checkiang to at
tack the red army, leaving these
provinces to imperialism for oppres-
sion and exploitation.
1T may be asked: Will the broad
masses tolerate the betrayal of
Chang and Chen? Will the mass
of troops under their command toll
crate the killing and burning of
imperialism in their villages and
towns? Will they be easily handled
to fight their own brothers, that is,
the red army of workers and peas
ants? The answer is d;ecisively Mega
tive.
''The.e is not the slightest doubt
that toiling masses and white SOL
diers of the whole country give
full
gramne of the Communist Party
of China, to the declaration OF war
on Japan by the Soviet Government
of China to the appeal of the Soviet
Government and the Revolutionary
Military Council fer Don't fight the
red army but ally with it in COM
mon war on japanese Imperialism