Montana labor news., 1938-11-03

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lenge and started a major war on
the Amur River, Russia would like
ly have had to fight it alone with
the possibility OF China being on
Japan's side; and now Japan is
wondering, even suspecting, that, be-
tween Stain and Litvinoff, they
played Nippon a devilish trick on
the Amur.
Trick No. 2 Japan played on itself
when she failed to conclude a nego-
tiated peace before destroying
Shanghai and Nankin, which unified
the Chinese nation as nothing else
could have done-even turning the
Shanghai bankers against imperialist
Japan.
Trick No. 3 was the logical out
come of cause and effect: the
"arming of the peasants" Kai Shek
and the bankers dreaded TO see the
peasants supplied with weapons, a
thing never allowed before in Chi
nese history, but it was that or a
quick humiliation by the little
Brown Men. In Chekiang province
alone, 10000 farmers a month are
being called for training as guerril-
las; and, after a 3-month training,
10000 are sent to the front, the rest
sent home, each with a gun and
ammunition. Realizing what hap
pened in Russia after the World
War, this is not only worrying ia
pan but England as well on account
of her vast holdings there.
0utclassed
Japan, confronted by armies in
front, %guerrillas behind, financial
difficulties aecumulating with a
growing unrest at home, she is
reaching out to Germany and Eng
land for help, with some success
from the latter-England having re-
fused China loans. But of the great
est significance and which might be
termed setback No. 4 is the drubbing
Japan received at Lake Hassan, both
from a military and a diplomatic
point of view. At 3 a. m. on July
31st, a division of japanese troops
with the assistance of heavy artillery
made a surprise attack on a Soviet
border patrol, forcing it back from
the Z%aozernaya height southwest of
Lake Hassan and planted artillery
and machine guns to prevent Soviet
re-enforcements coming up the slope
from the lake. In spite of their
strategic advantage, they were i'm
mediately driven off by a frontal
infantry charge, assisted by heavy
artillery and aircraft, leaving on
Soviet soil 400 dead and wounded,
five cannon, IA machine guns, l57
rifles and a quantity of ammunition.
Soviet casualties were So wounded
and 10 killed. One Soviet tank and
one gun were disabled and one
Soviet flyer, descending in a para
chute from a scouting plane, fell
inside the Japanese lines. In another
section, one Soviet pursuit plane
alone brought down three japanese
planes.
AT dawn on Aug. End, they made
another attack which proved SO dis
astrous that Japan was forced to
concede the justice of Litvinoff's
arguments.
Why Pick on Soviet?
There is a reason why all capital
istic nations pick on Moscow, name
ly: "the fear of paper bullets
(propaganda) and an additional rea-
son why Berlin and Toxic do SO, an
economic one and the only reason
able one, if such it al be called.
Eighty per cent of Soviet fishing
concessions on Kamchatka fishing
banks are bid in by japanese fishing
concerns and is to Japan of the most
vital Importance but they are only
to be had for year periods which
is an injustice to Japan owing to
expense of rigging them up. An
other thing annoying to Japan is the
number of airplanes stationed at
DLavidostok (roughly estimated at
from 800 to a thousand) and the
number of submarines located there.
AS Japan's industrial cities are but
two, three hours flying time from
there it produces more nightmares
in Japan than the combined nayies
of the world could do.
With Hitler it's a little different.
He is frantic about getting the Afri-
can colonies back and, while he
could use some of the Ukraine grain,
he is aware of the fact that they
are amply prepared to take care of
it there. Those millions of corpses
(starved to death, according to the
hearst press nave come to LIE
again and between harvesting bump
er crops, play soldiers and form the
NUCLEUS of the mightiest and best
equipped army in the world. That
is the eason why | think Hitler will
draw in his horns in the present
crisis, and as the minority Germans
in Czechoslovakia enjoy more privi-
leges there than the Germans in
Poland or the Poles in Germany, all
the fuss is but a screen to hide some
Interior design.
Insurance is the sensible way to
take care of what you'll need If