The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES


A New DEAF for China
Against the SOviets
Starvation in IndOnesia
DEPORTS from Geneva and
IL Toxic reveal that the Ja-
panese government, at the
very time its troops were
shooting down Chinese on the
Chahar-Jehol border, was
making secret deals with
Chang Kai Shek, generahssino Of
the Marking government.
The crux of these deals, as an-
nounced in Geneva by official Ja-
panese spokesman, is, first, direct
Japanese assistance to Chang Kai
Shek in the war on the Soviets in
Szechuan province. Japanese COM
mercial boats of the N. Y. K. and
N, K. K. lines on the Yangtze River
are to transport Kuomintang troops
against the Red Army. Japanese
gunboats are to accompany them
and shoot down Chinese workers
and peasants supporting the Soviet
territories.
Second, in return for this more
direct military aid against the
Chinese Soviets, whom Chang Kai
Shek more than once announced
he had completely destroyed, the
Japanese militarists are to have a
free hand in North China, par
ticularly in Mongolia in their war
preparations against the Soviet
Union. They are to have the
dominant imperialist role in China.
The merger of Chang Kai Shek's
anti Communist war and the Ja-
panese invasion of North China is
a counter-move to the main OBJ
jective of the Red Army of China.
The Red Army is the vanguard Of
the anti-Japanese invasion army
directed against Japanese imperial
ism, and it's chief native agent,
Chang Kai Shek.
"EIJI AMAU, the Foreign Office
~ spokesman (TOkio)." cables
Hugh Byas, New York Times cor
respondent in Japan, "said today
that the Japanese CONVEX
sations had been started on Gem
eral Chang Kai Shek's Initiative
and were not an outcome Of any
instructions sent to the Japanese
minister"
Now with this bit of information
at hand, and another fragment
published in the Osaka Mainichi
on Jan, 6, that is, three weeks be-
fore the japanese troops began
their march into Chahar. we can
well ask: Was the invasion Of
North China against an independ-
ent Chinese army, resisting the in
vaSion Of japanese imperialism the
result Of definite agreement be-
tween Chang Kai Shek and ia
panese imperialism?
Every fact goes to prove this to
be the actual situation.
The issue Of the Osaka Mainichi
referred to on Jan. declared:
From now on Kasumigaseki (the
japanese foreign office is expected
to deal directly with Chang Kai
Shek, instead of through his satel-
lites, as has been the practice"
The deal has been made, signed
and sealed with the blood of Chi
nese men, women and children to
the north of the great wall.
COMPLETE silence Is maintained
y in the capitalist press of Holland
on the famine raging in large sec
tons of the Dutch East Indies. In
the parliament at Batavia,
the so-called Peoples Council, it is
quite frequently announced that
the natives lack money, but there
is no shortage of food. Quite true.
The workers and peasants in the
Macs, Kroja, and Sumpiuh district
have no money. And the ware
houses are bursting with rice. Yet
thousands starve to death. The
families which do have few cents
to spend cannot afford to buy rice.
but live on what is known az
"gaber," waste product of the
cassava root. This fills their bellies
(the slogan Of the Dutch imperial-
lists has always been, "flll their bell
lies and keen their heads empty.
Bat it does not keep them from
starving.
THE n d o n esian newspaper,
"Suaram Umum," recently re-
ported an interview with the Sec
retary of the National Revolution
airy Party of Indonesia. He was
handcufTed and sent to the prison
at Gank Tengah (Batavia). In
the same prison 60 Indonesian sea-
men, charged with having taken
part in the mutiny on the cruiser
Seven Provinces" are being held.
When this revolutionist entered
the prison the warden demanded
that he kneel before him. He re-
fused Then he was knocked down.
His feet were chained. He was
then forced to trudge in the burn
| ing tropical heat to another prison
at Tyiponang. There prisoners are
virtually tortured to death as an
example to those who resist the