The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1926, Page 3

? Shao Li-tst One of China’s Fighters By WILLIAM F, DUNNE, Ri news today ts that Italy fs con- sidering intervention in China tm company with Great Britain against the Chinese national independence forces. It this fe tras, end the next few days should serve to confirm or dis- sipate tt, it means that a wofld war is just in the offing: The meeting betyeen Chamberlain and Mussolini seeihs to have brought quick results. Italy’s foreign policy is an eggressive one and the fascist government may choose to make its first demonstra- tion & bid for power in the Far Hast. extent of the panic which has seized the British foreign office as the victorious drive of the Kuomin- tang and the national armies conti. nues cannot be overestimated: Brit- ish -interests are being cleaned out of the Yangtse valley with thoro- ness afid dispatch; Wu Pet-fu and his latest ally, Sun Chuan Fang, ff latest dispatches are to be trusted, no jong- er represent a serious military op position; Mi A dispatch from Hankow states that the political section of the Can- ton army has begun its work there (the center of the Chiness heavy in- dustrial distriet) and thet 88 working class organisations have resumed ac- tivity since the defeat of the impe- jevery for There Must Be No intervention in China! against aC wer and put the qnes- tion of a Wwe war on the agenda of gn\office in the worli? The answer, ft seems to me, ts to be found in the complete failure of the British strategy in China, which threatens the collapse of British pres- tige and the immediate Itquidation of British spheres of infinenca‘and bases with the exception of Hongkong, British strategy is described by Tang Shin She, writing in Number 62, the tssae of the International Press Correspondence for September, He cites {ts two-sided character: The imperialists had two objects. They wanted elther to de- stroy the Canton government and the Kuomintang or win them over to thelr side. The Anfu (Tuan She Sul) Party Would welcome the fol- towing ‘edlution: Co-operation among thé flye chlefs, Chang Tso- lin, Sum” Chuan Fang, Feng Yu Hslang and Chang Kal She and a common cabinet undes Tuan She Sul, ‘OF only. have Britain anf Japan faflea to win the Knomintang and the Canton, government for a pro- gram, of imperialist exploitation af Chind, buty¢hey tailed miserably to destroy the revolutionary bage of the Oinese messges—the Canton govern ment: Instead, the armies of the Canton rialist armies, The Kuomintang or ganizations are spreading ever all the liberated territory, HH dispateh queted the Amerlean paper, the Hankow Herald, speak Ing of the entry into Hatkow of hte Canton army! The troops are marehing thru the streets and thousands of workers, employees, coolles and businessmen are marching with them For the first time we heard shouts of greet ing and applause When troops marched by, ‘Tremendous masses of workers sesembled at the rall- way station and talked to the troops and the students of the military aoademy + 1 1 There were ho triumphal archee, no committees of greeting THE PEOPLE ITSELF QREETED THE VICTORS WITH STORMS OF GREETINGS. Ww: published a dispatch the other day in which Sha Lits!, member government, supported by the masses Page tinece y Undoubtedly the Brttish ruling class | depends, as it did in the general) strike, upon the reformist leadership | of the labor movement to prevent} thig indignation being translated into; action; Upon the Commmmnist Party | of Great Britam and the minority) movement in the trafe unions is) placed the task of stopping the begin- ning of @ holocaust in the Far Hast} intended to crush the Chinese Ifbera-| tion movement and strike a blow at| the workers’ and peasants’ govern-| ment of Soviet Russia, (CH the above was written the! news of the victory of the Canton | armies has been confirmed, General! Wu and his ally, San Chuan Fang,| have been annihileted in the military sense and there extsts in Ohina to-| day as a serious military imperialist} fotee only the armies of Chang Tso- lim tm the north, Latest news ts that Britetn ts send- ing battleships end marines to Can- ton and at the same time ts imtrigu- ing with Japan for an offensive in the north, How suecessful these military ad- ventures Will be is problematical but it is eertaift now that an imperialist offensive against China will meet with ; the full resistance of a united national army based firmly on and supported | leyally by the masses of workers and Boone of Present Military Operations In Ohina ‘Chiang Kai-shi Armed and United for Freedom of the political bureat of the Kuo- mintang, predicted the contolidation of all of southwestern Ching under the nationalist revolutionary govern ment, sip But’ the dispatch stated also that intervention by Britain was possible. The announcement of Italy's part in the proposed offensive is of funda- mental importance when ¢aken in con- nection with the provocative: activi. ties carried on by Chang Tso-lin) against the Chinese Dastern Railway and the Soviet officials who manage it i i 6 ] iy Htital li Wf - : - r4 ® ‘ con Sr oS 4 : The Student Type Ponies in co-operation with Ohinese direct ors. : Note ae mS an of tensive by ‘western imperialism being prepared, but by Japan, the im- On Septembér 8 the “Isyostia,” of- ofal organ of the Soviet Union, pub- Hshed an editorial on the situation in the east which said in part: In epite of the firet note of the Boviet government dated August 31, Chang ‘Teo-lin’s hangers-on con- tinue thefr activity. Admiral Shen expreseed himself In a disgraceful manner In regard to the oconfisoa- tlon of the China-Eastern Railway's flotilla on the Sungari river, The school of the China-Eastern Rall- way was sealed and closed and the employes driven away. In Peking Itself the Russo-Chinese University, which was under the protection of the China-Eastern Rallway, hae also been closed. The recent successes In North China seem to have af- fected Chang Tso-lin’s head. On the other hand, the “Invisible” ad- visers, who are driving the Mar shal of Manchurla on to a danger ous adventure, seem to Impose thelr will forelbly upon him. . . » We appeal to the tollers of the whole world, BUT ESPECIALLY TO THOSE OF ENGLAND AND JAPAN, They plot intrigues and organize political adventures In or der, to ruin the Soviet Union, or at least to do it grave Injury. At present they are concentrating thelr onergy In Mukden. .. . “But every deed has Its loglo.” If the storm breaks over the fields of Manchuria, it will inevitably spread to other countries, .. . In the Far East storm clouds are riging. We want peace and would warn you of the danger which Is threatening. 4 _ Was written before the victo- striking gains in southwestern China of Great Britain was as desperate In the United S largest arsenal In in 8—Junotion of the the Independence forces, Is located In perlalist power of the east, whose in- strument in China is Chang Two-lin. under General Feng. possession, of the armies of national all of the population, workers, peasants and students, as the American press in Hankow admits, have captured the imperialist base in the southwest, have been welcomed joyously by the masses and are consolidating its tre- mendous gains, ‘UN CHANG FANK, after coquet- ting with Wu Pet-fu, the tool of Great Britain, and at the same time professing sympathy with the Canton government, made @ final demand that the Communists should be expelled from the Kuomintang and all Rus- sian military advisers dismissed. These demands proved that Sun Chuan Fang was at best a bourgeois revolutionist, concerned only with se- curing concessions from the imperial- ists for the big and small capital ele- nients of the Chinese population. Sun Chuan Fang has continued conduct- ing negotiations with Wu Pel-fu end ai the an alliance which did little, according to the best news available, to atrengthen the hands of British imperialism’s military leader, since one of the five provinces which Sun was supposed to|control, Kiangsi, has lost more, than half its territory to the Cantom government forces un- der command,of Chang Kai She. 8 Snassrad an alliance can be consum- mated between Sun Chang Fang and ‘Ohang Tso-lin and the forces of Wu Pei-fu (a present not a serious military factor) rallied for a new of- fensive, British domination of the Yangtse valley is at an end. Fatling intervention on a large scale in the near future, we can expect the +} agriculture for a considerable period Key to Map 1 and 2—Wuchang, Hankow and Hanjang (Spelt Kiuklang on map), three Important Industrial cities in what correspondents to the Pittsburgh area captured by the Chine Independence forces. The this district. eking-Shanghal rallway line now In the handa of 4—Approximate position of northern army of the Independence forces a. 8—The capita! of China which Is still held by Chang Ted-lin, provapanese ‘The arrow polnts to Shanghal, great seaport at the mouth of the Yangtze river, the whole valley of which Is now controlled by the Independence forces. Sun Chuar-fang, British Imperialism’s sole ald in China since the defeat of Wu Pel-fu, ls making a stand at Nanking but hie position Is hopelesa, The southern, central and southwestern provinces of China are now In ilberation. In the Yang-tze provinces @ there are 289,000,000 Chinese—rmore than one-half the total population. peasants and all other honest ele ments of the population. The testimony even of the enemies of the Chinese liberation movement fs unanimous on this point. DB slogan of “Hands Off China” ts more than ever a rallying point for the world’s working class. Much depends upon what course the development of the Chinese strug- gle takes in the next year. If the mass fortes aro strong enough to re- sist all attempts to re-conquer impor- tant sections of China and begin the building of a real workers’ and peas- ants’ /power, allying itself with the Soviet Union and establishing the basis of a modified socialist economy suitable for a predominantly peasant country, following the example of the Soviet Union and controlling all for- eign trade and capitalist concessions, the doom of imperialism in China is sealed. f, on the other hand, the working class of the imperialist nations al- low their rulers to mobilize all the! forces for an attack on China and succeed in subjugating the nation, there will open up a new era of ex- ploitation and expansion for imperial- ism which will allow it to overcome to some extent the disintegrating in- fluences now at work at home and in other colonial sections; It does not appear that the imperial ists will be able to overcome their internal conflicts sufficiently to ac complish the subjugation’ of China, especially since the expansion and consolidation of the revolutionary movement and the liquidation of all anti-imperialist forces except that of Chang Tso-lin, But an invasion of China would at least set back the do- velopment of Chinese industry and and no effort must be spared to make be eran “Hands Off China” a living ‘act, Noxt to the worker and peasant governmont of the Soviet Union, the national liberation movement in China {s the most important development for the world revoluuonary movement eee Dramas dis! 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