The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
World Front
. By LARRY GAINES

by HAIRY CANNES -
Tainted Abyssinian News
MussOlini's Plans
China Red Army Advances
NEWS purporting to come
~ from Abyssinia, via the
capitalist press, should be
scanned with the greatest sus.
picion. Every avenue of in
formation out of that coun-
try, now the target of a huge
fascist army, is controlled by the
imperialist powers whose colonies
surround it. The only railroad goes
through French 5omaliland, Tele-
graph and cable news is filtered
through British censors. Most of
the purported news is manufactured
by that paragon of truth Musso4
lini's propaganda agency in Rome,
Here is the setting for the tuiciest
batch of atrocity stories ever to be
manufactured by war-hungry inn
periaist bandit power. Mussolini
can create no end of pretexts and
incidents" to suit his needs.
The guiding principle Of the war
now under way in Abyssinia was
developed in Manchuria by the jap
anese militarists. The idea is to
make war but not to declare it. The
next step is to seize the country
and declare it independent" and
free"
HAVING withstood the whole
II epoch Of imperialist expansion,
retaining its independence, Abys-
sinia now, on the brink Of the
doom of world imperialism, is
slated for colonial slavery.
1t was only by the stalwart, heroic,
fierce fighting qualities of the Abys-
sinian Negro people that Abyssiinia
is to date not shackled. This spirit
is rising again in Abyssinia, and
with the support of the proletarian
and colonial masses throughout the
world, Abyssinia can retain its in-
dependence, and help the toiling
masses of Italy to turn the imper@
ialist war into civil war, to destroy
italian fascism.
At Adowa, in 1896, the Abyssinian
armies inflicted a crushing blow on
the Italian imperialist army In
1885, the proletarian masses in all
countries should help the Abys-
sinian people to deliver the final
death blow to Fascism's imperialist
aspirations in the heart of Africa.
AT the other end of the world, the
n heroic Red Army of China is
marrying Chang Kai Shek in SEE
chuan province. Here is the latest
news from the British impe-ialist
daily In Shanghai, the North China
Daily News
Considerable nervousness is be-
ing felt in Chungking largest in@
dustrial city in that province with
nearly 100000 population) owing
to the threats from Communists,
who are making their way north=
wards through Kweichow, to enter
Szechuan and attempt to cross
the Yangtze to join their CONF
rades already in the north eastern
parts of the province"
And just as British gunboats al
Alden, Arabia, just across from Ital-
ian Somaliland, assist the Italian
troops in their march into Abyss
sinia, the British Tern, Falson.
Aphis and Scarab stand by at
Ichang and Chungking to assist
Chang Kai Shek shoot down
Chinese workers and peasants.
FROM the latest issue Of the
L Chinese Workers Correspondence
we learn the following about the
movements Of the Red Army in and
around 5zechuan.
The Red Army is closing in on
Chunking from three sides: From
North Szechuan, from South of the
Yangtze River, and from the West
of Chungking. Comrade Hsi Hsiang-
chien is commanding the army from
the Chinese Soviet base in the
North Comrades Hsiao KEN and
Ho Lung are moving upwards from
Human province. Comrade Chu Teh,
commander in chief of the Red
Armies, is leading 10000 men from
Hokiang, a city located between
Luchow and Chungking.
In Anwhei province, the ante
japanese vanguard of the Red Army
advanced to point Is miles of
Anking, capital of the province.
The Red Army in West Human is
still holding the important cities OF
Tayung, Yinshun, Kutsang, Sanchi
and Lungstan. They have success
sively defeated six divisions of the
Kuomintarg army. When this army
entered Szechuan, they took Yuyang
and Shushan. and affected a juno
ture with the 5000 Red Army sole
die-s under the command of CONF
rade Liu Pei-chen in Nanchuan,
They are now ready to march on
Peiling opposite to Chungking with
the Yantze River between.
Thus the defeated" Red Army is
massing greater forces on the most
important industrial city in the
largest province of China.
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