The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-25

Danish DestrOyers
JUST four days before the
- third anniversary of the
Japanese invasion of Chapel,
Shanghai, Japanese imperial
list troops are again slaughter
ing men, women and children,
In their march through Cha
har. Three peaceful Chinese
villages, Kuyuan, Tungshatze and
Tushihkow, were bombed by jap
anese planes and artillery. The
number of dead is not even a mat
ter of concern for those reporting
the event.
There is no limit to the imper-
iallst APPETITE of the japanese big
bankers and trust owners. They
want to swallow the whole of North
China. They want all of Mongolia.
But even all this is only the hors
d'oevres, the appetizer for the piece
de resistance, Soviet territory.
Great indignation and a rising
anti-imperialist Juror is spreading
throughout China, Hallett Abend,
New York Times correspondent re-
ports In fact, Chang Kai-shek for
a long time sought to keep the news
OF this latest invasion in Chahar
from the Chinese people.
Chang Kai-shek has been assist
ing the japanese in their war prep
arations against the Chinese people.
Not only has he made secret agree
ments with the japanese war lords,
aiding them in their plans, but he
has been carrying on war against
the Red Army of China and It's
anti-Japanese invasion armies
formed for the purpose of repelling
the invasion of japanese imperial
ism.
AT this anniversary of the Chapel
a war it is well to remember that
Chang Kai-shek deliberately gave
Japan the victory, at the expense
of more than 10000 Chinese lives at
the Woosung- Kiangwan battle line
in 1882. The 10Th Route Army, and
other Chinese divisions were hero
ically beating the japanese troops
back. The whole working class
population of Shanghai was ready
to go into battle against the i'm
! perialists, A general cotton mill
strike was called, If the masses vera
given arms. the victory would have
been on the side of the Chinese
people.
What did Chang Kai-shek do?
In order to save his bombing planes
to kill the Chinese workers and
peasants, he had them sent TO
places of safety" He did not use
them against the Japanese invaders.
In fact, he turned over to the jap
anese general staff the plans of de-
Tense of the Chinese armies. He left
unprotected the town of Liuho. the
gateway to the rear of the defend
ing Chinese army And when the
heroic soldiers of the 10th Route
Army, after the order for retreat
had been given, refused to leave
their trenches, Chang Kai-shek
himself ordered them to be fired
upon.
/ CWEDEN has a Socialist Minister
" Of Finance. Now when the oues-
! ton of the united front against war
and fascism came up at the last
session of the Second International
in Paris, the leaders of the Swedish
Socialist Party fought against ap-
proval of any such action They
even went so far as to declare that
tie Spanish workers should not
have taken up arms against the
LerrouX- Robes fascist government.
But when it comes to arming the
Swedish bourgeoisie, than that is a
horse of different color. In the
Reichstag Swedish parliament)
session now on, the Socialist finance
minister proposed budget include
ing 119,40O000 crowns for arma.
ments, an increase of nearly 9,0O0,-
900 crowns over last years war
budget. Is it all right for the bour-
geoisie to take up arms, Herr Social-
Democratic Minister?
In order that his royal highness
should not suffer the indignities Of
an unrepaired palace, the sans
finance minister proposed sn ex-
penditure of 1,729,000 crowns for
keeping the kings house in proper
order. This was an increase Of
100000 crowns over last year.
nm the very day that Hitler an
" nounced that the Nazis would
consider the problem of the reor-
ganization of the Storm Troops nee
essitated by the new aims set for
them" the British Fascist Mosley
declared he would organize Storm
Troops in Britain similar to those
which helped bring Hitler to power.
Hitler's purpose is to disband the
Storm Troops, and replace them by
more reliable forces, now that the
Storm Troop leaders have been
butchered because they realized
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