The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1924, Page 7

ecent anges m ina = such as the Shanghai-Peking railroad. T first sight recent changes in| Im the last war betweem Chang Tso Peking would be hard to explain.) Lin amd Wu Pei Pu,. when. the advance However, those who are more or less:| of the former threatened the destruc- familiar with the Chinese situation} tion of the Shanghai-Peking railroad, will very well understand the signi-|the imperialist powers: declared that ficamee of what. happened in Peking. | nene of the warring armies would be * 9 ¢ ‘permitted to enter the so-called neu- ‘HE writer of these lines, while re-| tral railroad zone. As a result of this siding. in China some two: years | order, Chang Tso Lim was competled ago, expressed the opiniom that for a| to withdraw his armies from Shang- clear understanding of the future of} hai and Wu Pei Pu was: saved\ China, it was necessary to follaw the tenth policies and activities of the “Chris-| JV the: last war the great powers at- tiam General” FPenghu-Ysiamg. And|— tempted to extend this so-called only recently, while in London, the| neutral zone to include the city of writer expressed the opinion that it|Shanghai and the entire province.. would be impossible to appreciate cor-|' This attempt failed only because: of rectly the Chinese situation until! the | the interference of the Soviet govern- |}: plans of Fenghu-Ysiang become more} ment. Nevertheless, it can be stated apparent, that the great powers will not. permit eee ‘the complete destructiom of Wu Pei “A fOW, after Penghw-Ysiang has} Fu. openly taken @ position, it proves} ‘ eee to be decisive im the Chinese situation, the other hand, it must: be real- as. was easily to be expected. The old’) ized that Fenghw-Ysiang dees not | ‘belong to the group of small and weak | generals who have to depend em the support of the great powers. Fengiru- /Ysiang has a well-organized, well- ‘equipped and disciplined army of 30,- 000. Until recently, he supported Wu Pe? Pu, who is nothing but a servant Ysiang himself is also connected finan- cially and otherwise wittr the United States. The latter is continually ad‘ American Intervention in Europe of economic co-operation betweem the \Frenel: and German industries, but also because England was resolutely ‘opposed to such co-operation, for she ‘could not be unmindful of the fact ‘that a fusion of German coal and French metal must inevitably under- What then, did the Londen confer- By A. Joffe ‘vancing, its inflmence and power in|eventually also to the Soviet govern- China, holding the purse im ene hand} ment. If nothimg imterferes, he will and, the crucifix im the other. The}continue to consolidate: his power and -missionary and the merchant are the| to assume the vacant place of Wu two means hy which American capital} Pei Pu. extends its influence in Chima. The mf ° % army of General Fenghu-Ysiang con- ILL he succeed? We don’t think sists: mainly of christians, whe are} so. The time is past for the strongly influenced by and connected} success of single generals imposing with the American missionaries. Now |\their power wpon certain sections of the coup d’etat of General Fenghu-| China. The nationalist movement for Ysiang brings to power Tuaw Chi-Jui} the unification of China, led by Sun and saves from imminent destruetiom | Yat Sen, has recently scored great the army of Chang Tso) Lin, wire, altho victories. The prestige of Soviet Rus- ‘mot a direct supporter of Japan, yet sia, which supports this movement, is much closer to Japam tian to Amer: | has’ also grown considerably. No Chin- biea. ese government can now afford to ig: nere Sun Yat Sen or Soviet Russia. On the other hand, ever Japan, who will acquire great influence im Chinese ‘affairs, will not be able to ignore the | will of Soviet Russia, because her own ‘interests dictate a policy of friend: Ship toa us. »~ * * HE. question now is, whose victory | & is it? Is it a victory of the Amert ‘cam erucifix or of the Japanese purse? Both are no doubt invelved in the recent events. To us, however, ‘the + may therefore conclude that whatever the desires of the par- ‘ticipants in the present events in | China, the objective historical develop, ments. will compel them to move in ‘the direction of the national unifica- tien of China and its liberation from the oppression of foreign. imperialism. We Pei Fu, immediately disappeared. The military power of Wu Pei Fu is destroyed. There comes tmto exist- ence a new government, witiech will be dominated mainly by the Japano- phifes. Tt seems that Chang Tso Lin, the worst enemy of Wu Pei Fu, is be- to have become tired of playing the game of these powers, and feels strong enough to assert his indepen- dence and to follow the example of fa. few other powerful Chinese gen- erals. Aw @ christian, he is not popu- ‘ar enough te achieve his end by his |, Considered from. this point of view, owm effort, and for this reason he is the coup d’etat of Fenghu-¥siang is a ‘ompelled to look for asststance to| step forward and in the tight direc- chang Tso Lin, to Sum Yat Sen, and! tion. fact that Sun Yat Sen, the most popu-|' lar figure in present-day China, the representative of the truly national movement of China, im his struggles!) against the reaetionary alliances head- ed by Wu Pei Fu, is sympathetic to} the change made by Femgtu-Ysiang. Wheat does: it all mean? -—*.* F™ # correct understanding of Chin- ese events, it is necessary always’ to have in mind that the Chinese gen- erals, who are constantly warring with each other, are not only agents of one practically nullified the rights of France. If we add to all that the 800 mil ‘Tion mark loan to Germany floated by the British and mainly American bankers, if we further remember that the conference was) commanded by bankers, notably by American bank- ers, then the pieture becomes com- piete: French supremacy hag received a knock-out blow, French supremacy have given way to Americam supre- Sueh are the results of the London conference. Seme believe om this ground that ‘heneeforth the conflict of interests within Europe will fade before the spectre of Americam supremacy; that America, interested in exporting ca- pital to Burope, will be able to put ‘the European countries on a ration and force them: to sit still in the mame of the enrichment. ef their bankers: that. peace in Europe, the compulsory, may, therefore; be considered more or less warranted for some consider: able period. This belief is entirely erroneous. By f. STALIN, Secretary Russian Communist Party : LONDON Conference of the i Entente is the fullest expression of lying, false bourgeois democratic paci- ‘fism. If MacDonald-Herriot’s accession -to power and the noise about “estab- coe tae wane eats eerie ence of the Entente give instead? and mask the cruel class struggle in| Firstly; the conference rejected the Burope. and the mortal hatred. of. the | C°"TS¢ of independent solution of the capitalist states. towards the Soviet | T¢P2tations question by France, recag- Union, the London agreement of the nizing that disputes must be settled in Wishente: a icusk the’ cer aud tamale the last resort, by an arbitration com- the desperate struggle between. Eng- mission composed of Entente repre- land and France for European su- ‘sentatives and headed by an American premacy, the growing hostility be- Tepresentative—in other words: if Ger- tween England and America in the|™#2Y is to be robbed she is to be local income, because the general in-| struggle for domination of the world |'Pbed jointly. come of the federal government is| market, the struggle of the German} Secondly, the conference rejected ‘people against the colonial Entente op-| the occupation of the Ruhr and: recog: pression. There is no longer any war |inzed the necessity of evacuation, econ- ‘between classes, the revolution has; omically (immediately) and military come to an end, now things can be| (Within a year or sooner). The rea- sons: the occupation of the Ruhr at the present stage is dangerous from. the point of view of the political situ- ation of Europe, and inconvenient Large scion ieee 4 Ma Pirst, because the conference set- Ant Gat the Extent is preparing. te pangiersad ys cule scanaanes ba uaty Germany thoroughly and spetems, ‘out the German people. You mey, of oie caer pete in| COUTSe, plan the conversation of Ger- feervention tthe ecnference wholly ap-|M#ny into a first class colony, but to proved intervention of a financial ana/™te™Pt to make a colony out of a country such as German, now that oe wae or nae Pa veven the backward colonies are held ‘many 4@ bank of issue under the con- oe = ae te 2 pani ‘trol of a special foreign commis-|” , : be sioner; (6b) the handing over to pri- the “ gah tack’ ‘vate hands of the state railways Secondly, conference _ pemtly of the Allies, for France had a “ ies ter bneatahe ter abrended Seaton. be governed under the control of a ‘special foreign commissioner; the| Which naturally gave England the ve conte upper hand in Europe. However, to mittee" ot ie sixem ng gat ge ‘think that France can reconcile itself lies concentrating in its hands all the |‘ British supremacy means to dis- {reparation payments in Germany, fi-|?@8ard the logic of things, which nancing the German deliveries in kind|"Sually proves to be stromger than ‘from the reparation payments, and|@"y other logie. authorized to imvest a certain part} Thirdly, the conference recognized of the reparations payments (in case|Americam supremacy. But American ‘capital is interested in financing the ‘Franco-German industry, in the most Europe. Hower: ‘being in complete control of the|rational use of this industry, for in- re ‘stance, in the spirit ‘of combining powers, or groupings of them, but are also conducting an independent strug: gle of their own for power. *“** Chinese armies are made up of mercenaries. In order to main- i and England, Between Germany and ; | : ) it ! | | | Fs ' : 2 S : ; : | : | oceupation only hardly necessary to prove that this}French iron with German coal. It can ; Franee oo ne means a conversion of Germany into|hardly be doubted that American cap- less: adequate payments |an Entente colony ital will take advantage of its posi- tion in this most profitable direction ( i i i Ff i for itself. But to think that England of German. coal andi chemicals} will reconcile itself to this situation imuperialist policy,|for the course of a certain period,|means. not to know England, means fraught as it was with new wars and | stipulating, however, Germany's, right |not to know to what an extent Eng- As vegards Franee’s su-|to appeal to the arbitration commis-} land values the interests of her metal, “Sun Yat Sen (left), Wu Pei Fu pred: Y of these compulsory deliver-| And finally, Hurope is not an iso- (Center), Tehang Tso Lin robbery precluded the possibility kind. It thereby nullified or (Continued on Page 5.)