The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
On TIE
World Front
Roundabout Chinese News
Red Army and Missionaries
Mr. Whang Complains
BY HARRY CANNES

THE scarcity of news of tbs
L Chinese Soviets is made up
to ay by two roundabout
sources. The first source is
his holiness, the pope himself,
and the second, the China
Weekly Review. From Shang.
hal his holiness received a cabls
that the wicked Red Armies in
Anhwei Province have gone and
seized most of the southern portion
of the territory, and with it there
fell into the hands of the workers
and peasants armies various
church buildings The Catholic
missionaries fled with the retreat.
ing butcher armies of Chang Kai.
shek, where they felt more safe.
CATHOLIC missions in China.
very closely associated with ths
feudal landlord bourgeois and VII
lage gentry, are Of great help to
Chang Kai-shek against the So
VETS. When territory Is seized
where these agents of the oppres-
sion of the Chinese masses happen
to have built their churches, thess
are naturally taken over by the So.
VETS and transformed into schools,
hospitals and other centers for the
welfare of the Chinese masses.
| REMEMBER one instance OF the
l capture Of missionaries at a sum-
ner resort. There were four Amer
lean missionaries with their wives
and children present. The Red
Army soldiers rugged up sedan
chairs and carried the women and
children on their backs. Because
the task of feeding the children was
too difficult, they finally trans
ported them back, at the risk Of
the lives Of Red Army men. and
turned them loose where they could
make contact with their friends
When foreign correspondents
tried to get anti Communist state
ments from these missionaries, they
refused, stating they had never
been treated better in their lives
THE latest issue Of the China
Weekly Review which we re-
ceived shows Chang Kai-shek's
sixth Communist drive is not
going so we'll. In fact, in Szechuan
Province it Is meeting with utter
disaster I n Anwhei, Kweichow, /
and Fukien Province, the Red
Armies are making constant ad-
vances.
Gen. Liu Hsiang, Commander-jn-
Chief Of the Szechuan anti-Com-
munist armies, suddenly resigned
his post. He left his military head
quarters at Chengtu for Shanghai,
"As a result Of Gen. Lius de-
parture," comments the China
Weekly Review, military operations
against the Communists have been
temporarily suspended"
The China Weekly, however. Is
all balled up on cause and effect.
The reason for the suspension Of
the anti-Communist war is not
General Liu's departure. Quite the
contrary. The victories of the Red
Army in Sgechuan forced the sus-
pension of the anti-Soviet war and
forced Gen. Liu's resignation.
1T appears" continues the China
Weekly Review, that on August AZ,
Gen. Liu received reports about
serious reVerses on the part of the
provincial forces at the hands of
Communists at Wanyuan. Realizing
that the provisional leaders cannot /
present united front against their
common enemy and that the anti
Red campaign has failed to bring
about the desired effect, General
Idu left Chengtu secretly that day
and proceeded to Chungking.
IN KWEICHOW, the Red Army
4 under the leadership of Comrsde
Ho Lung. has made sweeping gains.
The Red Army captured Yenho,
taking the Kuomintang troops COM
pletely by surprise and inflicting
heavy casualties on them. Yenho is
city on the west bank of the WI
kiang River not far from the
Human border, and very strategic
point for further advances for the
Red Army In Kweichow.
CHINESE writer's, in view Of the
" conflicting reports of victory
against the Red Army issued by
Chang Kai-Shek, and subsequent
authenticated reports of Soviet adj
vances, are beginning to complain.
For example, Paul K Whang of
Shanghai. faithful supporter of
the anti-Soviet drive, writes:
"The exact situation concerning
the Red-banditry this is the same
term the Trotzkyites use1 in China
has never been clearly understood
by the public because of the vigil
lance exercised by the government
officials in suppressing authentic
news and their readiness to release
biased reports for domestic con-
sumption. What we have read in
the vernacular press have been
nothing but encouraging reports,
as for example that the govern
ment forces have the situation we'll
in hand that the military phase Of
bandit-suppression will soon come
to an end, or that the downfall Of
Soviet China is only matter of
days. Once in great while, small
items of news have escaped the
axes of news censors and these
have betrayed that the situation
as whole is not as encouraging
as the government officials would
have the uniformed public believe.
The ubiquitous presence of Red