The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
On the
World Front
by HARRY CANNES
Arrogant War Lords
= and Professors
Manchurian Insurgents
Nv HARRY CANNES

THE arrogance of the Jap
4 anese war lords knows no
bounds. When the word goes
out for stimulation of provo
cations against the Soviet
Union, one never needs to
read the secret orders, be-
cause there Immediately results a
flock of incidents that show the
fine hand of the military gentry in
Toxic.
These provocations seem to come
in well-defned waves have a def.
mite purpose, and are always care
fully timed. The most recent ma
neuvers along the Soviet border in
Manchuria followed the Soviet
Unions refusal of the deliberately
low final offer for the US.S.R.'s
share in the Chicago Eastern Rail-
way. They are timed, also, for the
midst of the harvest.
DUT the arrogance Of the generals
ID is only exceeded by that of the
professors. For example. Dr. Shigeo
Suehiro, professor of Kyoto I'M
perial University, writing in the in
fiuential magazine, "Kaiko Jiho,"
offers the following proposal to the
Soviet Union in the Far East:
IF the Soviet Union is sincere
in her professions for the mainte-
nance of peace, she should withdraw
her army, to, say, west of Baikal.
If this is accomplished, there is no
doubt that it will remove all the
uneasy atmosphere hanging over the
two nations"
WHAT prevents the sstute pro-
W fessor from suggesting that the
Red Army retire within its own bor-
ders, say, to Moscow, is that Jap
anese imperialism for the first stage
Of its war plans is interested pri-
marily in the Far Eastern territory
of the Soviet Union up to Lake
Baikal. With japanese imperialism
maintaining an army of over 200,-
600 men, and constantly building
airdromes, military railroads and
roads leading to the Soviet border,
in territory it robbed from China,
the imperial professors advise the
Soviets to maintain peace. to with
draw from Soviet territory and
open the road to the japanese war
lords.
This is precisely the type of
peace" Japanese Imperialism wants;
1t is the type of peace" it is plot
ting for all of China.
The professor and his colleagues
in uniform are doomed to disap-
pointment.
AFTER nearly three years of mill
n tary conquest of Manchuria,
Japanese imperialism has been un-
able to crush the rebellion of the
Manchurian workers and peasants.
In fact, the partisan bands are
growing and their resistance against
japanese Imperialism is becoming
more costly. The Japanese press
calls all of the insurgents bandits :"
very much as Chang Kai-shek, and
the Trotskyites, dubbed the heroic
Red Armies of China.
When American marines invaded
Nicaragua on the pretext that San
dino was a bandit, throughout Latin
America revolutionary speakers,
when addressing mass meeting, used
to put the following question:
"Quienes son los bandidoes en-
Nicaragua" who are the bandits
in NicaraguaO The response Of
the entire audience would invariably
be: The Wall Street marinesr'
WHENEVER the colonial masses
W struggle for freedom, to those
who have billions in profits at stake
from the continued slavery of the
workers and peasants, every armed
struggle is "banditry."
Vigilantes are heroic. and patri-
otto" citizens, but striking workers
are criminals.
An idea of the size and effective
ness of the insurgent forces in Man
churia can be gained from the latest
report published in the China
Weekly Review" from which we
quote the following:
Despite japanese claims per-
tanning to the pacification of Man
churia, which are handed out to
foreign newspaper correspondents
in Tokyo and broadcasted to the
world by Japanese propagandists
abroad, authoritative reports from
foreign consular sources in Man
churia state there are still $4,000
Chinese volunteers operating in
Kirin province, while the number
in HeiIungkiang is estimated at
$4,000. And this in spite Of the
fact that the Imperial Japanese
Kwantung Army has now ex-
pended approximately 100000, 900
yen on pacification in Manchuria
since the original occupation on
September Is, 1881, the expendi-
ture in the fiscal year exceeding
65,000,000 yen."
The China Weekly Review also
points out that the number of sue
cessful attacks on Japanese forces
in important cities is growing
alarmingly for the japanese "paci-
fiers."
FROM the latest issue of the
Chinese Workers Correspond
ence we learn further that the Vol
unteers in Kirin recently scored two
victories against the Japanese in
vaders. They occupied two impor-
tant cities, Hsulan, which is only
so miles from the capital of Kirin,
and Ling Chin Teen o1co known