The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15
On the
World Front
Wolves and a Diplomat
Japanese War Plans
From a Fascist Jail
BY HARRY CANNES

T 4At'S1 iASAC " JIlo
TAPPING gate in Marking, on
Wednesday, there was found
the crouching and disheveled
figure Of the Japanese Vice
Consul Einei Kuramoto. The hon-
orable gentleman said, believe it or
not, he was waiting for the wolv' ,
to nibble at him. The rights !
Japanese diplomats in China.
course, include the privilege, though
1T is not mentioned in the extra
territorial treaty, of unmolested
suicide.
Had the wolves not been particu-
lar of their diet, the Japanese gum
boats in Marking harbor would
have repeated the Chapei-Woosung
bombardment of 1882, leaving heaps
Of corpses as a monument to the
slain" japanese diplomat. Kura-
motto explained his disappearance"
which was made diplomatic Incl
dent of world Importance, by the
fact that he had been rebuked for
some official mafeasance.
Even a superficial knowledge OF
japanese imperiaist methods leads
to the unacceptable conclusion that
the honorable gentleman was really
anticipating. He fell down on the
job. He was sent out to emulate
Captain Nokamura, a jealous milf
tarist, who sacrificed his life in
Inner Mongolia as a pretext for the
invasion by the japanese of Man
churia. Every act of the Toxic
government is crying proof of this
fact.
Not only were Japanese gunboats
and marines ready at Marking, but
they were modified at Shanghai,
and others were waiting at Maya
saki for intervention in China. No
provocative act is too daring or SEN
sational for the Japanese imperial
lists to commit for new drive into
China or for war against the Soviet
Union.
The hapless Kuramoto was Just
one Of the weaker links in the
greater chain of the plan of colonial
plumber and war of Japanese i'm
perialism. On the same day that
Kuramoto was deciding on the
moss covered Ming tomb whether
to be or not to be, the Associated
Press in cable from Tientsin re-
ported some Japanese plans that
are not going awry.
IN the pretext of leasing land for
v agriculture near the Tientsin
race course, the Japanese militarists
were building an airplane landing
field and airdrome. The purpose
of this is to prepare for the seizure
Of more territory in North China.
Japan has built more than fifty
modern military airdromes in
strategic areas in Manchuria, in
Guiding about a dozen in Jehol
Province, which she recently seized
from China. Japan also has
number of formidable air stations
at vital points near China's Great
Wall, and is in a position, according
to military experts, to swoop down
on Peiping and Northern China at
any moment.
While the Japanese imperialists
perfect their plans for plumber in
the Far East, building airdromes in
Manchuria for war against the So
Wet Union, the Nazis in the West
also prepare for territorial expan-
sion at the expense of the Soviet
Union.
Whatever Mussolini and Hitler
may talk about in their conference,
the main question will be war
against the Soviet Union. This was
very clearly shown in the recent
declaration of NaZi Goering's
mouthpiece. the Essen National
zeitung. The plans of the fasciSts
for conquests in the Baltic and the
Soviet Union were explained in the
following details:
The Southeast territory of Eu-
rope and the Northeast must be
brought into contact with tina
territory of the North and Baltic
Seas. And some day the circle
must be complete across Russia.
This honor undoubtedly falls to
the foreign political Office of the
National Socialist Party of hav-
ing made proposals and plans in
this direction, which are already
in course of being carried out to
certain extent"
THANKS to the betrayals of So
cialist leaders like Otto Bauer
in Austria, proletarian mothers,
brothers and comrades receive let
tiers like the following written from
an Austrian Fascist concentration
camp:
"Dear mother.-We are not los
ing our courage. A few words on
the conditions here. The sick men
are left lying for weeks With high
fever. If the doctor cannot find
out the illness, then he says: II
you report ill again you will be
sent to the cellar! You cannot
imagine what this cellar is like.
/, too, was kept in the dark in this
cellar for AZ hours, and don't even
know why.
THE cellar is six feet under
the earth, has no window, is wet
through and through and has
nothing to sit or sleep upon.
Seven of us lay half the night on
few rotten boards, the other
seven the other half. We were
not allowed to take our rugs with
us. The men tainted, but the gen.
darmes took no notice. We were
forced to drink the water trick
ling down from the cellar ceiling,