The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
World Front
By HARRY CANNES

AIESI news from emma,
IL as we'll as the most recent
comments from Japan on
Chang Kai Shek's latest cam.
paign, make imperative am
other column on the situation
in China, though we dealt with
the subject yesterday.
Bitter words are flying between
the Kuomintang bandits over who
is responsible for the victorious adj
vance of the Red Army to Szechuan.
But why is this necessary, we must
ask General Chang Kai Shek?
Didn't your news agency, the Kuo-
min, on at least five occasions IN
the last month completely annihil-
ate the Red Armies? In official
kilograms to Gen. Pei Chung Hsi Of
Kwangsi province, General Chang
Kai Shek admits some strange facts.
He berates the Southern militarist
for failing to stop 10000 troops Of
the Red Army with 100000 Kuo-
mintang troops who were sent to
surround them. General Pei, pecu-
liarly enough, replies that after five
days of fighting against great odds"
he was forced to give way.
THE comment from Japan, which
1 deals with this very subject,
should be of the greatest interest to
our readers. Says the Japan
Weekly Chronicle, a British
English publication in Kobe, Japan,
editorializing on "The Chinese
Reds"
THE Marking government is
finding the suppression of the Reds
little beyond its power 1t is a
queer war that Is now being fought
in South China, for despite oc-
casional successes, the Nationalist
troops appear to be no nearer the
achievement of their task than they
were at the beginning. In fact,
there is every likelihood of the
present campaign resulting in a
strengthening of the Communist
regime.
"Szechuan (province) appears to
be wide open, for town after town
is apparently falling to the retreat
ing Reds, who are meeting with
practically no resistance in their
march to safety. The refuge, when
won, will be worth having from
every point of view. In the first
place the province is easily de-
Tended. Communists already hold
considerable section of this
province-which is larger than
Japan-and the threatened inva-
sion, if it actually comes about land
there is nothing that can stop it
now.-H. G1 will almost certainly
result in the entire province turning
Communist. 1t is also more
probable that the province with
100000 inhabitants) will be on
the side of the invaders, who have a
far better record as administrators
than have the Szechuan militarists."
THE Japan Weekly Chronicle, goes
1 on at great length to tell of the
mineral and other wealth of SEE
chuan province and of how well
suited it is for Soviet rule and for
resistance to military drives Of
Chang Kai Shek.
THE Foreign Press" a news sheet
published weekly for the Associa-
ton of Foreign Press Correspon-
dents, in its issue of Dec. 3 (No.
24 has a very interesting review of
the best-seller in Germany. Mr..
Gareth Jones, former secretary to
Lloyd George, now on his way to
Japan, stated that when he was
in Germany he discovered that the
book by H. w. Won Doemming,
What Does Japan Want?" was the
most widely pushed book in the
Nazi bookstores.
THE book praises the role of jap
1 anese imperialism as a spear
head against the Soviet Union and
for the domination of China. The
prospect of war arises, says Herr
Doemning, in Japan's drive through
Manchukuo closer and closer
toward the Soviet border. Deem
ming tries to convince his German
readers that in such a war victory
over the Soviet Union would be a
certainty. This does not exactly
coincide with the latest news in the
New York Times, which has head
line on Dec. 10 reading: "Russia's
Strength Held Bar to Attack by
Japan unaided. Statesman in
Geneva Believes Tokyo Won't Act
Without Positive Western Help"
1t is to get this positive Western
help" that is the aim of BEGINNINGS
book. That help has already been
promised by Fascist Germany,
which is deluding the Nazi followers
about the easy victory that Japan
could gain in the East over the
Soviet Union.
THE political situation in Cuba is
sharpening to point where
there is little doubt that new armed
clashes will soon take place. In
the first instance, the Mendieta-
Batista government has ordered its
troops to march against the peasant
Soviets in Realengo 49, Oriente
province. At the same time, various
fascist groups in Cuba are battling
one another. Mendieta is trying a
| Machado stunt. He is supposed to
leave Office soon, if no elections are
held. And no elections are planned.
The top fascist bandits are fighting
over who shall serve the yankee i'm
perialism, not alone, of course, for
the glory but for the great profit
in it for them. Batista's fascist
gangsters invade the Office of "Ac-