The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
On the
World Front
=" By HARRY CANNES =
Manchurian Uprisings
1000 Slaughtered
Forces of Rebellion

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vaders in Manchuria. are
breaking out with greater
stubbornness and heroism
than ever before. The news
has just arrived that Japanese
troops have slaughtered 1000 Chi
nese peasants and villagers for
resisting conf1scation of their land
This peasant uprising. put dow'l
with such brutality and 50 m,,c
oloodshed, took place in the Nortl,
eastern section of Manchuria where
the japanese army has built a. mil
lta1y road towards the border Of
the Soviet Union along the SungarI
River. They were confscafino
land to make way for a strateoie
railway, part of the war plans
against the Soviet Union. The rail.
road was mapped to run from Tun-
hua which is down near the center
OF Manchuria, to the Sungari river
which runs into the Anlur river
bordering the U. S. S. r.
The War Department in Toxic
makes the plans for the railroad.
Orders are wired to the militarv
stations in Manchuria. And In this
instance, the peasants were noti-
ned. along the line of the projected
military railway, that they would
have to register their land with the
japanese army authorities Now
many Of the peasants, who have
been toiling and moiling on the
land, do not have any titles "a
register. They know they own the
land simply because every inch of
it is watered with their sweat and
they have paid it's value ten times
over to the usurer and to the war
lords and rich landowners.
THEY refused to register their
4 land, knowing from experience
that the purpose was confscation.
Truckloads Of japanese soldiers were
sent to throw the peasants off their
land. or to murder the spokesman
OF the peasants. The Manchuria.n
peasants know OF an incident that
occurred near the Manchu1ian
border of Korea in 1892. Peasants
who refused to allow themselves to
be driven from their land, and ac-
cused Of harboring anti-Japanese
partisan troops, we're rounded up
outside of their village by japanese
machine-gunners, and over 1000
men, women and children were
eold-bloodedly slaughtered.
Three japanese punitive expedi-
tons which sought to drive the
peasants off their land in North
eastern Manchuria were waylaid
and defeated. Finally, a superior
force was sent in, and 1000 peas
ants. their wives and children. vera
murdered and their villages burned,
These facts are confirmed by the
New York Times Shanghai COR
respondent, though the original re-
port reached the Daily Worker bv0
wireless from Moscow.
But this savage deed is driving
new millions of the 10000 900 on
pressed Chinese inhabiting Nam
churia, to more determined anti
lmperialist struggles. Peasant re-
volts are reported from dozens of
widely scattered sections of Man
churia. Armed Partisan activities
against japanese imperialism is
gaining strength, and coupled with
the tremendous squirt given to the
peasant revolts, japanese imperial
ism is finding that in building its
ant1-Soviet war base in Manchurial
on the backs Of the Chinese peas
ants, the danger grows that the
peasants may stand up.
IN FACT, recently there has been
a tremendous growth Of the
partisan movement, particularly
that modified from the ranks of
the pooz and oppressed peasants,
the Big Knives. the Red Spears, and
the Self-Defense Detachments.
This late summer and fall. when
the kaoling crops begin to flower,
reaching height of nearly 10 feet.
an excellent hiding place
for the peasant bands and partisans,
we may expect tremendous in
crease in armed struggles against
the japanese invaders.
There are already in Manchuria
over 100000 varied partisan troops,
organized against japanese i'm
perialism. They are widely scat
tered. badly organized, poorly
armed, but represent a tremendous
rallying force for the mounting
rebellion OF the Manchurian peas
ants against the hated invader.
Chiefly, these anti-Japanese de-
tachments consist of three different
forces, many of them either led by
or under the influence of the COM
munist Party of China, forming the
for the future Red Army
of Manchuria.
In the first category there are
the former units of the Kirin army
OF the old Manchurian generals Ma
Chang Shan, Su Ping Wen, etc,
who we're defeated by the japanese
and Manchukuon troops. It is
composed of soldiers who broke
away and kept their organization
end arms, and still carry on sporadic
flghtine. These troops are usually
connected with the big Chinese
landowners and the bourgeoisie.
The second type are partisansl
led by Wang Teilin, and others.
which besides consisting of similar
segments Of the armies. of the old
Manchurian generals. contain also
sections of the petty bourgeoisie and
peasantry, as we'll as deserters from
the new Manchukuoan army. This
grouping carries on a united
front struggle in many instances
with the Communist Party, against
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