The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1933, Page 6

Published Page Six 1 the Comprodally Publishing Co., 1 3th St., New York City, N. ¥ Telephone ALgonquin 4-7958, ine., dally exespt Sunday, at BYR. Cable “DATWORK.” Address and mall checks te the Daily Worker, 56 E. 13th St., New York, N. ¥. Demonstrate oviet Union Hits |sparxks Back At Embargo; Boycotts Britain USSR Won't Use Briti sh Shipping; Huge and Growing Orders for Goods Will Be Placed Elsewhere; Self-Defense By N. BU (CHW ALD (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 23.—An hibiting foreign trade organiz placing any orders in Englan that country. order was issued Friday pro-| S. R. from! ations of the U. S. d or making any purchases in The same decree prohibits Soviet organizations engaging USSR FOREIGN TRADE MONOPOLY IS REAFFIRMED Builds Socialism, Would Not Work Under Capitalism MOSCOW, April 23.—In connection with the ‘Sth anniversary of the es- tablishment of the monopoly of for- eign trade the Soviet newspapers are publishing a number of congratula- tory messages to workers in the for- eign trade system of the U.S. 8. R. fhe Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of People’s Commissars of the R. S. F. S. R. say: The monopoly of foreign trade, created under Lenin’s direc- tion, was and remains one of the most powerful weapons in the con- Struction of socialism on the un- shakeable foundations of Soviet eco- nomy. Assists Socialist Construction. The problems solved by the system of foreign trade monopoly assists in- Gustrilalization in the Soviet Union, the socialist reconstruction of the rural districts and the defense of the country of socialist construction from capitalist surroundings. These prob- lems have been conquered by the toil- ers of the Soviet Union and the workers in the Council of People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, The Council of People’s Commis- Sars of the U.S.S.R. appeals to work- ers in the People’s Commissariat 0! Foreign Relations to maintain a firm stand for the principle of the monop- oly of foreign trade. These workers also received a message from Litvi- noy saying: The monopoly of foreign trade has now become an object of enyy and imitation on the part of capitalist states, which in the throes of the capitalist crisis are definitely attempting to carry it out at least partially. Cannot Exist Under Capitalism. “They do not understand,” says Litvinoy, “that foreign le monop- Oly can successfully ful its func- ttons only in countries where private property has been done away with and 5] private trade culation has been uprooted, anc lism is un- der construction. The foreign t workers also re- Ceived addresses from various other organizations. Win. Honorary Orders. By resolution of the Centrai Exec- utive Committee of the USSR. a number of tanding workers in tite People's Commissariat of for- @ign trade were awarded the order of Lenin and the order of the Red} Labor Banner, among them, the People’s Commissar of Foreign Trade, Rosengoltz; the trade representative | fiom . the US. Veytzer; the rer land, Ozersky Germany. ntative to Eng- FRIENDS OF SOVIET UNION SCORE WAR PROVOCATIONS AGAINST USSR. ‘completed the Five Year Plan are Call for Resolutions, Telegrams to U. S. Gov-| ernment, Deman NEW YORK.—The Friends of the Soviet Union yesterday issued the following statement with reference to the conviction of the representatives of the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company and the action of the British Government taken in connection with their trial and conviction: “The decision of the British Government to impose an embargo on | Soviet imports to Britain is a step in the direction of war against the Soviet Union. The wrecking and spy- ing activities of the British citizens Who were convicted confirm this con- ausion. “At the same time, the recall of the British Ambassador from Moscow end the other acts of the British Government in connection with this @ase are intended to counteract the | Widespread favorable sentiment for recognition of the Soviet Government existing in the United States. Even many representatives of other for- cign governments in Moscow as well A newspaper correspondents have ex- pressed this view. The British Go ermment does not want to have the Soviet Government recognized by the United States. It is opposed to the Strengthening of the international position of the Soviet Government resulting from recognition. “In its attempt to delay recognition of the Soviet Government on the part of the United States Government, the British Government is receiving the support of all reactionary ele- ments of the American population. ‘The Catholic Church, the American Legion, National Civic Federation, leaders of the American Federation of Labor and many of the less impor- (ant enemies of all progress have in- tonsified their ectivities against recog- nition during the last few weeks. ———* in any shipping of any kind |that it will be no easy matter to cross | under the British flag and re- quires the maximum reduction of the use of British ports and bases for transit and re-export. The decree likewise introduces re- | strictive regulations in regard to Brit- ish goods in transit through the U. 8. S. R. by placing heavy duties upon all such transport, which will compel | Britain to use long sea routes for aj| considerable portion of its trade to the Far East and imports of ma- terials from that part of the world. These measures will remain in force during the operation of the British embargo against the import of a number of Soviet commodities into England. Based On 1930 Decision. This order is based upon a decision |of the Council of People’s Commis- sars of the U. S. S. R. of October 20, 1930, on economic relations with countries establishing _ restrictive |Tegime regarding commerce with the | Soviet Union. | Information here is to the effect that the London trade representa- tives of the Soviet Union in England| will leave tomorrow for Moscow on| orders of Rosengoltz, People’s Com-| missar of Foreign Trade to give re- ports on the situation. Growth of Soviet Imports. The Moscow press is interesting data on the growth of Soviet imports from the beginnings | of Soviet rule. In 1919, Soviet im- 'ports totalled only 3,000,000 gold | rubles, rising to over 1,000,000,000 gold rubles in 1930. In the intervening years imports rose steadily year by year. During the past 14 years the | goods imported into the Soviet Union haye aggregated eight and a half billion gold rubles, 60 per cent com- ing from Germany, England and the nited States. Development of British Trade. |_ ‘Trade was begun with England in 1919. Operations grew uninterrupt- | edly and two years later imports from Britain rose to 111,000,000 rubles, reaching 120,000,000 rubles in 1925. Imports from England to the Soviet Union dropped sharply after the |break in diplomatic relations follow- ing the. raid on Arcos, the Soviet trading agency in London, falling to 41,000,000 rubles in 1926. After the |resumption of relations imports rose steadily. Huge Machinery Imports. Soviet imports of machinery dur-| ing the past fifteen years amounted to ov 000,000,000 rubles, while to- tal exports during that period were nearly 7,000,000,000 rubles. Under the Five-Year-Plan exports _ totalled nearly five and a half billion rubles, During these years of Soviet mon- opoly of foreign trade a large export 'base has been established for the shipment of timber, oil, furs, etc., abroad, = | NOTICE | Will the worker who sent in the | | item about getting Moscow by radio | on a low-wave set, which appeared in the April 21 issue, please send us | name and address? Other workers | are interested in getting in touch with him, | ding Recognition e ~ | |'They are sending petitions and let. | ters against recognition to the Presi- jdent and the State Department. |They are organizing meetings in opposition to recognition and, in gen- | eral, they are spreading all the lies |and slanders such as forced labor, | dumping, etc., which have long been | exploded.” | The Friends of the Soviet Union | | calls upon all those who are sympa- | thetic to the Soviet Union, all who | | are in favor of real human progress, not to allow the attacks of the British Tory Government and of the enemies | of the Soviet Union in the United States to go unanswered.’ All friends | of the Soviet Union should send tele- grams to the President urging imme- diate recognition, and help the | Friends of the Soviet Union enroll at | least one million signatures for recog- | nition within the next few weeks. STIFLE NEWS IN CUBA | HAVANA, April 23.—The Cuban | |censorship has confiscated the latest [issue of the American Magazine be- | cause of an editorial on the Machado dictatorship entitled “Soothing | Syrup.” The editorial contains a ref- erence to the recent murder of six revolutionary students by the Mach- ado police which the military censor- shin considers objectionable publishing | | that the workers and peasants of the jcall to the workers of the world to experts of the R.F.C. have refused loans to orker’ Party USA Dail SUBSCRIPTION BATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, 96; six months, $3.50; 3 ménths, #; 1 menth, excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign an@ Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, 95; 7 wonths, $2. on May First Against German Fascist Terror | HOURS | OUT TOLYNCH | FINANCIAL press service reports | that “there has been quiet buying | in London and Paris’ in -companies whose Russian properties were expro- priated by the Soviet Government. It is based on the hopes that the Soviet is near collapse, and that a new gov- ernment would permit former owners | to assert their claims.” | These hopes are vain. The millions | of workers and peasants in the Soviet | | Union are ready to die in defense of their own Workers’ Government. As | for intervention, anybody who’ has |taken a look at the Red Army knows |the borders of the Soviet. Union. And | |if the capitalists place guns ‘in the |“hands of the European and Ameri- can workers, they will have a revolu- |tion on their hands, | But such reports are indicative of jthe way the wind is blowing. The threat of capitalist . intervention jagainst the Soviet Union. is growing |greater every day. | 88. 8 | 4 FASCINATING and instructive essay is that of T. H. Wintring- ham in the August, 1932, issue of the British Labour Monthly, called “Mo- }dern Weapons and Warfare.” Here are some of Wintringham’s conclu- sions: | Military technique has developed at |a more rapid rate during the last jfour years than during the first four jyears of the World War. | This development does not auto- imatically strengthen imperialism. The development of modern. mili- |tary technique makes the military |forces of the capitalist class more and more dependent upon uninter- |rupted industry at home. For example, the air forces: of an imperialist army are a highly refined mechanism whose effectiveness can completely be destroyed by any revo- |lutionary orz.nization among the machinists or mechanics. | An airplane squadron with its | workshops and equipment is a very teomplex economic group, needing wireless parts, delicate instruments, chemicals, light metal alloys and a | dozen other things. If @ supply of any jof these is held up, the squadron is | helpless. These conclusions are only a few |examples of the way in which Win- \tringham applies 4 Marxian analysis to the problem of modern military technique. He shows how the prob- lem of the overthrow of the capitalist class is. far from being the hopeless one so diligently pictured by the “revolutionaries” of Social-Democ- racy. . . . ‘HE New York Times carries a se- |4 ries of pictures supposed to show |how the prisoners of the Nazis are being treated. We do not see any of the tortures or brutalities. We see | only a few kind Brown Shirts smiling jin a genial way at their prisoners. We see pictures of food being brought to the. prisoners, etc. The New York Times is obviously engaged in a campaign to minimize the extent of the Nazi terror which is still going on at full blast against the working class. The pictures in the Times are a deliberate distortion of the facts. The article by. Egon-Erwin Kisch on this page, gives a true pic- ture of the fascist savagery now go- ing on in Germany. . 8 . ioe) is a sentence of Trotsky’s from a recent issue of the-Trotsky sheet in New York, Says Trotsky: “Stalin's faction hes raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October Revolution.” ~ Read this sentence. Read it again: What does it say if not that the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union’ is counter-revolutionary? And if the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is counter-revolutionary, then the wholé Soviet Government is. counter- revolutionary! And if the Soviet Union is counter-reyolutionary, then the workers and peasants who just counter-revolutionary! These are the implicit conclusions of Troteky‘s statement. The only alternative conclusion is Soviet Union are being forcibly kept in subjection to the Soviet Govern- ment. In either case, Trotsky’s statement Says exactly what all intervention Provocateurs say. Trotsky’s statement is an indirect overthrow the present Soviet. Govern- as being reactionary. The natural conclusion of Trotsky’s statement is that intervention is a revolutionary necessity! ‘Trotsky is exactly what Stalin says he is, “the leader of the. advance- guard of counter-revolution.” oe Ge | else economists have long sought to define the difference between proper investments and speculation. The Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation may be able to help them in this respect. The RiF.C. lent 50 million dollars to the Mis- souri-Pacific Railroad and its sub- sidiaries when it was obvious all the The RF.C. loaned the road three time that this road was bankrupt. million dollars a few weeks ago, af- ter the road had declared that it was unable to meet interest payments on previous loans. The financial thousands of small home-owners be- cause it would be “unsound,” Obviously, to lend 50 million dol- lars to a Morgan railroad knowing full well that the money never will be repaid is “proper” investment, and lending the people some of their own money so that they can avoid losing their life savings is “unsound” specu- lation Another Iegal Issue of the Rote Fahne, German Communist Official Newspaper TROTZ VERBOT Se "Leichen n gefungor,da schwennen when bverfaul- ane Land,da werden un- eattionglto bemisst— 3 ¢ Kramherhlucor eingeltes Fart una stecbon uijer den Hinde a” Ae ne Unsere Die Frauen und Kinde: deten sind 1 WEI? DAG BANNER B82EH? VENN DER wANy aver reat) Loom a a : ad oe es Sh Fm ‘The tfansiation of the first page of the Rote Fahne, re-produced above, is ae follows: In Spite of Suppression. 5 Pfennigs, No. 4, April ‘THE RED FLAG. More than ten thousand functionaries of working-class organizations been arrested in the last few weeks; hundreds of them have been murdered. The public hears nothing of all this. “Unknown” bodies are te in the woods. On the German rivers, haif-rotted corpses are cast up on the banks. Inhumanly mutilated and unconscious, people are breaght in to the hospitals and die under the doctor's hands, WORKERS MURDERED. OUR COMRADES. -The widows and children of the massacred are a living reminder for : That We Should Fight On. Comrades, Draw together. Close the ranks. We are responsible to those that have died. Our last greeting to the murdered: THE FLAG WILL STAND, THOUGH THE MAN FALLS. "Wha Is Fighting Hitler? The New. York Jewish “Forward” of Friday, April 21, finds it neces- sary to defend the German Socialist’ leaders’ betrayal of the German working class .°.. by slandering the heroic Communist Party of Germany. ‘The editor of the “Forward” quotes the organ of the American Trotzky- ites to prove “that the Communist Party of Germany is dead. All reports that the Communists are flooding Germany with revolutionary proclama- tions, that the Communist’ “Rote Fahne” appears illegally and that it is being distributed in hundreds of thousands of copies are pure fiction.” The “Forward” goes ‘on to say that “everything that the Communists say about the German Social-Democracy is a lie.” Yet practically every report of Socialist betrayal of-the German workers’ fight ageinst Fascism that the‘DAILY WORKER has printed has. been confirmed by dispatches appearing’in the capitalist American press. Does ‘the “Forward” dehy that the German’ Social-Democracy has resigned from: the Second International? Does the “Forward” deny that Leipart has been negotiating with Hitler for the incorporation of the trade unions. into the Fascist State? Does it deny Otto Wels’ letters to von Papen, or Otto’ Brdun’s cowardly resignation from the Reichstag and Prussian Diet? -Will it deny that half of the Socialist deputies in Bruns- wick have resigned, stating that they do not wish to impede the national revolution? ‘ The list could be prolonged indefinitely, so that even the last Socialist worker would realize that the German Secial-Democracy has infamously | abdicated to the Fascist regime, which they helped into power. ‘Yesterday’s ‘New York Times” also throws down the lie to the “For- ward.”.The ‘Times’~Berlin: correspondent cables that Leipart is planning to.resign from the executive’ board of the reformist International Fed- eration of ‘Trade Unions, in Amsterdam.. He also reports that the Am- sterdam™ International has broken off relations wiih the reformist Ger- man unions, charging in with “dishonorable conduct in that they have offered to Chancellor: Hitler unreserved co-operation of the trade unions and their ‘coordination’ in the Fascist State, thereby abandoning the class warfare platform of the International Federation.” We shall not go into the merits of the “Class struggle” platform of the reformist Amsterdam International here, which has misled the organized workers of the capi- talist world for years, nor into their demagogic purpose in rebuking their German brothers, but the “Forward” can scarcely call this a “Communist invention.” 4s for the “death of the Communist Party” and the “Communist lies regarding the illegal “Rote Fahne” and the activities of the Communists in Germany under the ‘Nazi regime—we print on this very page a photo- stat of recent issue.of the.““Rote Fahne,” the original of which is in our editorial office for inspection, if desired. Today's issue also contains fur- ther reports of Communist activity under the Fascist terror—Communist activity and victories! 2 Further testimony from arch-bourgeois sources that the Communist Party of Germany is far from dead ts offered by the April 7 issue of the Hugenberg “Tag” of Berlin. Its editorial demands stricter measures against the Communist Party, which is now continuing its work illegally in Germany. The editorial states: © “The Communists haye made all preparations, to continue their work, primitive ag it may be, illegally. Single Communists are trying to cause unrest in the factories, in the unions and at the labor exchanges, and to incite the workers, All attempts to establish anything in the way of a new leadership must be severely crushed.” ‘The editorial then continues that the “Kampibund” against Fascism is the center for issuing directions, and that “instructions for conspira~ tive activity” have been issued and that the Communists are arranging the collection of funds, are recruiting new members, and are building nuclei in the various nationalist organizations. ‘The “Tag” editorial also admits that the anti-Fascist stamps issued by the Communist Party of Germariy are eagerly bought even by Socialist and Centrist workers, who are now losing all their, illusions about bour- geols democracy. This evigence from the most varied sources: The “New York Times,” the arch-reactionary “Tag” of Berlin, and the photostats published in the DAILY WORKER, ought to suffice to prove to every Socialist worker and reader of the “Forward” that the Communist Party of ermany lives and fights, that it is the German Socialist leaders who have betrayed the class struggle, and now surrender to Hitler, and that in spite of the lies of the “Forward” and its new ally, the “Militant,” the revolutionary work- qa of Germany ate rallying around the iilegs! Communist Party for ectstve battlo agninst Pasctst terror, Resistance Germany; Communist Party Leads Wide to Nazis Thruout Wins Shop Elections Illegal Papers Circulated by Thousands of Copies; Campaign of Ar- | rests Met by Strikes for Release of Jailed Workers; Storm Troopers Disarmed at Places and Swastika Flag Hauled Down BERLIN, April 10 (By. Mail).—The revolutionary activity of the German prole- tariat, under the Communist | all over the country. Party’s leadership, continues unabated, spreading to cities | Hundreds of Communists were arrested in Essen to break up the Gommunist Party, |and its organizations, but in spite of the Nazi repressive measures separate revolutionary | workers’ candidates were nominated for the shop council elections in 25 of the 32 local |coal mines, | Small local groups of the Communist Party were arrested to a man, all over the pre~ | vailingly rural districts of¢ Pomerania, but Party work | was continued in spite of that. | The illegal district paper has ap- | peared in an issue of thousands of | copies. | | In Bielefeld (in the Ruhr) the ile- |gal local Communist Party paper, | “Rote Volkswacht,” has appeared in} |@ 10-page issue, and its circulation | | has risen ‘from 300 to 1,000 copies. | | The Fascist terror, which is espe- | cially severe in the regions of Han-| | Mover and Brunswick, has been un- {able to suppress the work of the |Party there. In the town of Linden, {near Hanover, the workers disarmed | Six storm troopers and hauled down the Nazi flag. Communists pulled down the Nazi flag from union head- | quarters in the city of Goslar, al- though’ the reformist union officials tried to prevent this daring deed. Anti-Fascist Action Grows. In Hannover 12 trade unions voted against the Fascist control of the labor union movement.. The workers in the Piesteritz nitrogen works forced the removal of Nazi special police from the plant by passive re- | sistance. In the Gummi-Elbe plant |near Halle 200 young women workers | went on protest strike for half an |hour against the dismissal of the chairman of the shop council. A Nazi storm trooper and an auxil- \iary policeman called at the Selle & | Eisler factory in Berlin to arrest two | members of the Revolutionary Trade | Union Opposition during working | hours. The workers threw the Fas- ‘cists out of the. plant, and regular |policeiten summoned to the scene | did ‘not dare to arrest the two revo- lutionary workers. Red Gains In Shop Elections. The Communists are continuing to | gain in the factory council elections, ! {reports from more factories coming | in daily. In the huge Maffei- Schwartzkopff locomotive plant in| Berlin the Communist and Social- Democratic workers set up joint can- didates, who pulled 215 votes to 62) votes for the Nazis. i | ‘The Communist candidates topped the poll in the Gruenberg clothing | factory in Berlin, getting 57 votes to | 54 for the reformists and 36 for the | Nazis. This is the biggest vote ever polled by the Communists in this} tactory. In the Voss mine near Halle elec- | | tions were held on March 28, The | Communist candidates got 111. votes, | compared with 75 in 1932. The So- cial-Democrat vote was unchanged at 131, while the Nazis polled only 65 MASS MOVE GROWS FOR SUPPORT A OF WORLD ANTI-FASCIST CONGRESS Date Postponed to June 4-5 Because of Czecho- Slovak Police Prohibition of Congress Meeting in Prague~ COPENHAGEN, April 11 (By mail) —Th- Union of Laborers and Concrete Workers ¥ “ir solidarity with the fighting workers of Germany and called upon ots. without distinction of party to join in the fight against Fascism in —. its forms, The general meeting of the bricklayers of Copenhagen voted a resolution of sympathy with the German work- = ing class in its fight against Fascism. The Organizing Bureau for the >vention of the Danish factory council of the Mondschein é Speyer shoe factory voted to send @ European Anti-Fascist Workers’ Con- | delegate to the European Anti-Fascist gress states that the prohibition of | Congress, the convening of the Congress in e.e 6 Prague on April 16-17 by the Czecho-| sTRASBURG, April 9 (by mail)» Slovakian government (in which there are Socialist ministers) has necessitated the postponement of the Congress. until June 4-5, on which days it will convene in Copenhagen. A conference of ‘representatives: of the miners of Alsace-Lorraine and the Saar Valley has appealed to all mines in these areas to mobilize for JAPAN OFFERS VIENNA, April 9 (by mail) —The CAPITALIST PRESS IN GERMANY ADMITS NEW MURDERS BY NAZIS Out of Their Own Mouths Comes: Answer to Their Lying Propaganda About “Peace” ‘The DAILY WORKER prints below another list of Fascist murders in Germany, taken without exception from bourgeois German newspapers and giving but a small percentage of the political murders of workers that have occurred during one week in April. These authenticated instances should effectively disprove the lying propaganda of the Hitler Government that “Germany is quiet today.” The Berlin “Vossische Zeitung” of April 4 reports: “The corpse of a man was found this’ Morning near the Spandau Canal. ‘The body has # wound, possibly due to a bullet, tm the right temple. “The paper ree vorted that the murdered man was the worker Wilhelm Drews. vt, 7 | From the “Frankfurte: Zettung” Sov jet RR Spoils | April 6: “The Bochum police reports r le cap reap , | that a Communist who had fled was TOKYO, April 23.--At the momen: | caught and brought to Police Head- when the Japanese announced that| quarters. Since his serious condition the Anti-Fascist Congress. PEACE; ATTACKS France to Get Share in | their drive into China proper had ended, General Kawahara launched, @ fierce attack on the Chinese posi- tions southwest of Kupeikow, a pass in the Great Wall 65 miles north of | votes, In the Bitierfeld aniline works the ; Communists won 4 seats in the coun- | cil, with 5 seats for the reformist | union and 3 for the combined Nazis | and Stahlhelm, | The Communists polled 50 per cent of the total vote in the Premak plant | in Oberschoeneweide, a suburb of Ber- \lin. In the Wirchow metal works in Berlin, the Communists won 2 seats | to 3 gained by the reformists. | The Nazis suffered a severe defeat ; even in the printing plant of the arch-monarchist Berlin Deutsch’ Tageszeitung. The Nazis polled onl; 54 votes, compared to 430 votes for the trade union candidates. BIG BATTLES IN CHACO DISPU | Paraguayan — Victor at Aceval | |_ LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 23—The big | Bolivian offensive launched on Wed. |nesday appears to have been at least temporarily unsuccessful. The Boli: vian official military communique along the entire front north of the | Aliquata were decisively repulsed, | while Bolivian air raids have kept the Paraguayan air forces grounded. On the other hand, a despatch from Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, states that 250 Bolivians were killed in the battle of Camp Aceval, as compared }with Paraguayan casualties of thir- |teen men wounded, | The Bolivian Foreign Minister has | rejected the Brazilian offer of arbit- ration, demanding settlement of the Chaco dispute on the basis of com- plete acceptance of Bolivian demands. eset The war in South America ts part of an. economic war between Great Britain who dominates Paraguay, and United States who has practically 100 per cent control of Bolivia's finances. The war over the disputed Chgco territory began after rich oi) deposits had been discovered in the region. Attempts to settle the dispuie by ar- bitration have been in the past dis- honest moves by either of the two big powers. The proposed arbiters of the Chaco variably turn out to bet onpseelied Amerton. ther by England or | Claims that tho Paraguayan advances | Peiping Peiping. The Chinese had attempt- ied to recapture Kawahara’s posi- | tions on Friday, and the new Japa- | | nese attack is in the nature of a | Counter offensive, Large losses have been suffered on both sides. | | The Japanese announce that they; | will form @ “neutrality zone” in all| | the regions of China proper whch | they have captured. This they in- | terpret to mean that any Chinese forces entering the zone will be | bombed by Japanese planes, and if | this is unsuccessful, driven out by fapanese infantry. Obviously,, the ‘neutrality vone” was set up without | the preliminary of consulting China. | The announcement that the Jap- ; anese drive is at an end, makes for- eign observers fear an imminent Jap- ‘anese attack on Peiping and Tient- sin. Colonel Drysdale, U. S. military | attache, hurried to Tientsin to confer | with the Chinese governor of Hope! | Province concerning defenses. Bea ie Japan has decided to restore her | Port Arthur naval base, in violation f the terms of the Washington Arin~ | Conference of 1922. Port Arthur will | become a secondary base serving the | second oversees squadron of the Jap~ | anese navy. This gives Japan a new | center for attacks on China and the | Soviet Union, and will provide a mili- | tary base for actions cither against | end Tientsin or against Vla- divostock and the Maritime Province. | | Pe BAN) | PARIS, April 23.—France has re-) ceived the assurance from the Man- chukuo government that French in- terests will be consulted in the pirat- ical campaign of. Japan against the Chinese Eastern Railway. The French have invested $600,000,000 in | the Chinese Eastern, and have re- ceived no dividends since the Bol- | shevik revolution. They are hence keenly interested in the Japanese acts of brigandage against the Sov- jet-owned line, and in case the Sov- jet Union can be induced to sell t! railroad for @ nominal sum are wil- ling to be let in on the ground floor. ‘This Japanese plan of barefaced rob- bery and blackmail is one of the tiés which united the French and Jap- nese governments in Far Bastern policy. ‘ { “The Chicago Mooney Congress, April 30 to May 2, will be a big step toward my bo cipcg re haa Mooney. oe did not allow of his preventive arrest, he was taken to a hospital. His Lan | exhibits a number of wounds due blunt instruments. “He is critically injured. The circumstances undes which he was wounded could not be ascertained as his condition does not allow of his examination.” Shot In ‘The Back The Nazi “Voelkische Beobachter” of April 7: “A worker was shot in the back curing @ political debate in Humboldt Strasse; Hamburg. The assailant escaped.” (The Press Ser- | vice of the SocialsDemocratic Party of Switzerland reports that this worker was attacked by three Nazis from behind and stabbed in the back, Although several persons witnessed the cowardly murder, the police pre- tend that the miirderors are un~ known). * The “Muenchener Neueste Nach- richten” of April 11: “Sunday mornisg’the Jewish cattle dealer Pressburger committed suicide (2) by blowing out his brains. Press- burger had been arrests! under sus- picion of spreading Jewish atrocity stories.” ae The Berlin’ “Boersen-Zeitung” of April 11: “A munitions depot was discovered in Neukirchen near Crem~ nitz. When the Reichsbanner man Max Rupff heard of this, he fled. He was later found dead in a nearby forest.” ve Meioie. Struggle The “Vossische Zeitung” of Apri ll: “WTB reports: that Alwin Hans- pach, a Communist of Friedersdorf near Zittsu, attacked a Nazi storm trooper in the Zittau Public Library where Commuhisis~ are held under preventive arrest, wounding him sev- erely, Hanspach then tried to force his way into the storm troop dor- mitory to objain arms. Confronted by a storm trooper he tried to wrench the pistol out of the latter's hand. The storm troopad, fired into the adr, and when Hantpach did not sume render, flred and* hilled him. The slain man’s widow has been placed under preventive artest under charges of Communist ‘plofting.” . These are the <teports printed tm the Nazi-controlled German’ bour~ geois press. As the Czarist general wired to St: Petersburg seventy years ago: “Order reigns in Warsaw.” The modern hourgeois society that bas sprouied trom the ruins of fuedal secleiy, has not done away with class antagonisms, It has but established new chisses, new condi- tions of oppression, new forms ef poclngdr obo) Mantonta of the eld |