The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1931, Page 7

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The feudal - bourgeois - militarist government of the Kuomintang in Nanking and its master, interna- tional imperialism, are by no means blind to this important achieve- ment of the international revolu- tionary movement. Their answer is the most savage and ruthless at- tack on the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army. Since its betrayal of the Chinese Revolution in 1927, the Kuomintang has jumped into the camp of im- perialism and combined with the semi-feudal and imperialist forces to murder the Chinese workers and peasants. It drowned the heroic Canton Soviet and the Soviets in Hai Feng and Lu Feng in a river of blood. The revolutionary upsurge and the establishment of many soviets in southern and central China na- turally drive the Nanking Govern- ment and world imperialism to concentrate their murderous at- tacks on the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army. After the temoprary stoppage of the military war between Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-Hsiang and Wen Shi San last spring, the Nan- king Government, under the dic- tate, and with the support of the imperialists announced its big “Communist Suppression Cam- paign” in five provinces in southern and central China. It boasted that the government would with ease exterminate the Soviets end the Red Army “before the end of April.” Since the start of this suppression campaign last spring, the Nanking Government has despatched more than twenty divisions of its army, more than thirty bombing planes and numberless militia and police forces to suppress the reds. The most destructive tactics and instru- ments were used in the campaign. As was openly admitted by the United Press, the agency of Amer- ican imperialism, which reported on March 18 that, “Activities of the rebels in the railway zone have be~ come more serious, resulting in gov- ernment’s decision to utilize air- planes in the offensive...Poison gas is being used against the ban-~ dits in both Hupeh and Kiangsi.” Once the Kuomintang army suc- ceeded temporarily in occupying some Soviet district, the most bar- barous efforts were made against the workers and peasants and their families, The constructive achieve- ments as the Soviet banks, schools, nurseries, factories, etc., were com- pletely ceed IMPE ISM HELPS. e«.In the suppression campaign, international imperialism not only supplied Chiang Kai-shek with military advisers, munition, finance, airplanes, etc., but ac- tively participated in the direct attack on the Soviets and the Red Army. The imperialists bom- barded the Canton Soviet and helped to send the white army to Canton in 1927. They also bom- barded and aided the Kuomin- tang in crushing the Changsha Soviet last July. Japanese infantry fought against the Red Army in Yo-Chow and twice repulsed the Red Army from Tayeh. French airplanes bombarded the Soviet in Lung-Chow. Ameri- can, British, French, Japanese and other imperialist gunboats and cruisers have continuously fired on the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army along the Yangtse River. It has been admitted by the’ imperial- ist agency in Shanghai that in two months time, the imperialist gun- boats have fired upon the soviets and Red Army not less than one hundred and seven times! The fol- lowing report of the North China Daily News dated December 11, 1930, tells us glaringly the role of the American and other imperial- ists in suppressing the Reds: “American sailors, together with their British and Japanese fellows, are getting daily practice at living targets on the upper Yangtse River this winter, and these members of the Yangtse Patrol may become the best sharpshooters in the Navy... These sailors have amused them- selves by firing upon the living targets (that is the Communists and broad masses) on the upper Yangtse River... But during the autumn and winter months of this year, battles between foreign guards and Chinese Communists have become so common along the Yangtse that they are no longer “news” unless some com- munists are hurt.” This praise to the barbarous at- tacks of imperialism on the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army bears out the role of American and world imperialism in its attempt to crush the Chinese Revolution. Red Army Grows. But the Communism Suppression Campaign was by no means suc- cessful, mainly due to the heroic struggle of the Chinese Red Army and the Chinese workers and peas- ants. Temporary defeats of the So- viets and the Red Army might be registered, but the fundamental strength has been preserved and increased. During the campaign the Soviets and the Red Army also made impertant and strategical vic- tories and advances, The 18th and 50th Divisions of the Kuomintang Army were deci- sively defeated by the Red Army in Tonkoo last January, with the cap- ture of the divisional commander, ;'greatly increased. It has not only Chang Hui Tsan, of the 18th Divi-~ sion. The First Corps of the Red Army, over 10,000 strong, together with the local Red Defense Corps, succeeded in occupying part of the Ping-Han Railway (from Pei-Ping to Hankow). On March 5, two regiments of the Kuomintang Army went over to the Red Army with all the arms they possessed. The 34th Division of the Kuo- mintang Army, despatched to fight the Reds, suffered overwhelming defeat. The telegraphic message of the Japanese Press from Hankow dated March 13, stated: “The 34th Division, whose Cem- mander being Yo Wei-Chen, was bitterly attacked by the Reds; with the larger part of the division dis- armed and two of the brigade com- manders captured by the Commu- nist Army. Yo himself was, too, captured.” The Reuter Service, the agency of British imperialism, reported from Hankow that “.,.Private re- ports state that more troops sta- tioned at Kwangshui have revoit- ed.” As & consequence of the ceaseless mutinies and revolts in the Kuo- mintang Army, the fighting strength of the Red Army has China and the Soviet Union By HARRY GANNES. T the behest of the imperialists the Nanking government in 1929 broke off all diplomatic rela- tions with the Soviet Union. This was preceded and followed by a frantic drive against the Chinese workers and peasants, In order to prove worthy of his hire, Chiang Kai-shek did everything Wall Street wanted him to do. He pre- pared for war over the Chinese Eastern Railway. Stimson, under the Kellogg pact, tried to advance this war so that Wall Street couuld come into possession of this valu- able railroad as a spearhead against the Soviet Union, Since that time, Chiang Kaishek has followed the policy toward the Soviet that Wall Street desired of him, However, among the Chinese masses the feeling of sympathy for the Soviet Union is growing at a tremendous pace, not alone in the Chinese Soviet territories, but throughout the country. The books most in demand are about the So- viet Union, and especially the Five Year Plan, The Five Year Plan is capturing the imagination of the Chinese masses, Chiang Kai-shek promised “reconstruction.” Instead, he gave the masses greater starva- tion; deeper crisis, and heavier bur- dens under the yoke of imperialism. The Chinese masses are learning of the successes of socialist up- building in the Soviet Union. They see that the attacks of the impe- rialists against the Five Year Plan become furious because it shows a way to emanicpation to the colonial masses through revolutionary up- surge and socialist constructions, This has resulted in a frantic gesture by the Nationalist govern- ment. At the hand-picked meetings of the Chinese Yuan (supposed to be a national legislature, but really a few puppets who can be counted on to follow Chiang Kai-shek’s bid- ding) recently held, a proposal was passed favoring a “Five Year Plan.” This farcical step is like Chiang Kai-shek’s promise of “reconstruc- tion.” It is to make the masses be- lieve that the achievements visible in the Soviet Union can be achieved by the Nationalist government. This will fool no one—least of all the Chinese masses whose condi- tions grow worse each day. Meanwhile, the imperialists, and especially the United States, is preparing the Nationalists for war against the Soviet Union. Just now this consists of an attack against the Chinese Soviets, financed by the imperialists, supported by them with their gunboats on the Yangtze River and with their troops in Shankhai, Hankow and Canton. The proposed silver loan of Wall Street, amounting to $40,000,000 is offered, mainly, with a view to rooting out “Communism.” The ob- ject is, if the Nationalist is strengthened, to direct its efforts, with the backing of the imperial- ists against the Soviet Union. American imperialists look to China as a grave yard in which to bury the economic crisis along with millions of starved Chinese work- ers and peasants. It looks to China as an important war front against the Soviet Union. Red Money Kiangsi Soviet paper money, issued by the Kiangsi Workers and Peasants Bank. (See the article by Chinese Worker Correspondents for detailed report province.) . on the issuance of Soviet currency in Kiatysi ere defended the basic soviet districts from militarist and imperialist at- tacks, but has made new advances. The number of soviets has in- creased to more than two hundred in Kiangsi, Hunan, Hupeh, Fukien, Kwangsi, and other provinces with more than twenty-two corps of the Red Army over four hundred thousand strong. According to the Chinese Workers’ Correspondence, “The broad Soviet districts in South China still exist steadily growing despite the posi- tive besieged suppression upon them by the Kuomintang and im- perialism, This is the result of the heroic struggles of the broad peas- ant masses,” Admit Anti-Red Failure. The Kuomintang militarists and the imperialists have been com- pelled to admit the truth. Ho Yin Chin, the commander-in-chief of the suppression campaign, has openly stated to the press that the suppression campaign had been a failure and asked the Nanking Government for re-inforcement. The North China News reported repeatedly that “No progress made against Kiangsi Commiunists,” “Red menace increasing,” “There has been no cessation of the Commu- nist bandit menace in Kiangsi and according to reports, the mauraud- ers are becoming stronger and more active daily.” In the New York Times, May 23, 4inder the headline of “Reds in South China Pressing Forward,” Hallett Abend, the imperialist core respondent of the Times in China, reported that, “While the Nanking Government admits carrying out encircling movements, Communists in Kiangsi are steadily increasing their pressure,” and that “the gov< ernment regards the Communist menace more seriously than any- thing else.” Militarist War. The inevitable antagonisms among the militarists and imperial- ists have already precipitated an- other military war in China. Chiang Kai-shek has to despatch his troops, who have been engaged in vain to suppress the soviets and the Red Army, to fight against his rivals in the north and the south, This undoubtedly will objectively enable the soviets to further con- solidate their forces, and to make further advances, This, however, does not lessen the danger that, in view of the upsurge of the “Red Menace,” the militar ists will again concentrate their brutal attacks against the Soviets and the Red Army with the indirect and direct support of world im- perialism. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the Communist International, and with the revolutionary support of inter- national working class, the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army has placed China “in the front rank of the national revolutionary move- ment of the colonial world” (Theses of the XI Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist In- ternational). Workers in the Unite ed States and other capitalist coun- tries must carry on propagandist and organizational measures to fight against imperialist interven- tion in the Soviet Districts of — China! ‘