The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1933, Page 4

eubliched by the Compredaity Protishing Co. IgM &., Mew York Otty, N. ¥. Totephone Atgenq Page Four Ine,, Caddy exept Bondar, at Be B. 4.7958, Cable “DaTWORK.” Ad@ress and mail checks te the Dutly Worker, 5¢ f. 19th %., New York, N. ¥. By Molt everywhere: One veer, 34; six months, 96.14; 3 months, St; 1 month, We, SUBSORIPTION BATES: Fe 26, Wee ereepttng Borough of Manhatian and Bronx, New York Olty. Foreign and Canada One year, 38; 6 months, $5; 7 ments, $8. CLARA ZETKIN'S BURIAL SHOWS ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY OF U.S.S.R. Her Life a Flaming Symbol of Proletarian Revolution Answers Lying Charge Hitler Dictatorship MOSCOW workers, that the U.S.S.R. is aiding the Hitler Clara Zetkin, though dead, has become the symbol of Soviet solidarity of thee z = : | Hall of Columns in the Trade Union with the Soviet anti-fi working sonified Despite German proletariat workers’ loyalty to the heroic ascist fight of the German class which Clara Zetkin per- the rigid Nazi censorship. he Zetkin funeral demonstration in Moscow will filter through the ears of the German workers, encaraging them to continue and Widen their resolute struggle against the Hitler dictatorship Clara 2 tkin was active in the anti-fascist struggle to the day of her death. The day before she died she was dictating an article attacking the Second International and the Social- ist leadership as chiefly responsible for the success of the Fascists in Germany. Clara Zetkin’s memory will live on. inspiring the workers of Germany and the whole world to continue their bettle for the victory of the proletarian revolution NEW YORK. June 22—Yesterday | the Jewish “Forward,” Socialist | daily. printed a scurrilous editorial on the death of Clara Zetkin, in which it said: “After the war she the Communists and thus ended her career in the Ger-| labor movemen ‘The speech | vered in the Reichstag| nanding the impeachment of Hindenburg and calling upon the| workers to establish the Soviet Re-| public of Germany—Ed. D. W.) made a most painful impression on all her old friends.” Clara Zetkin’s activity in fightirg| the patriotic war propaganda of ‘the June 22.—The burial of Clara Zetkin’s ashes im the Krem- lim wal on Red Square, the signal for a great demonstration of the Soviet symbolizes the answer of the Soviet Union to the lying charge | others, while a band played the revo: THE UNOFFICIAL R, Aids That U. S. Ss. regime in Germany. House, Yesterday the hall was opened at 9 a.m. to all wishing to take leave of the deceased leader Since early morning of the death of Clara Zetkin, oldest revolutionary fighter and beloved friend of the proletarian masses reached the Moscow factories and | government departments, thousands of toilers, made their way to the House’ of Trade Unions 100,000 Pass Before Coffin By 4 p. m. tens of thousands of workers and toilers of Moscow filled when news all the adjacent streets. Streei-car traffic was suspended. A dotible stream of workers passed before the | coffin in columns eight abreast. About 400.000 persons pasted before the bier PRESIDENT yesterday The coffin, covered with flowers, Was surrounded by a military guard and a guard of honor, the latter changing every five minutes. Dele- gations from factories and plants included Krupskaya, Lenin’s widow, | Ulianova, his sister, Felix Kon, Stas- | sova, Kollontai, Karl Radek and | Answer Her Call With -TETKIN'S LAST STATEMENT AN APPEAL Mighty Anti-Fascist Demonstrations All Over lutionary funeral march continually. | the Country on Saturday, June 24, National Anti-Fascist Day! Numerous wreaths were laid on the coffin. Krupskaye, Ulianova and FE zarova placed a wreath on the bier Clara Zetkin’s last public statement Wide struggle against.terror and fas- cowardly kneeling before it. PEASANTS 0 TAX STRIKE IN POLAND \10 Killed in Clash | With Police, 28 Hurt, | Over 100 Arrested WARSAW, Poland, June 22.—Nine peasants and one gendarme were kill- ed, and 23 peasants and five police- | men injured, when the police clashed with peasants on a tax strike in Gra- | bine and other villages not far from Cracow, ancient capital of Poland. The peasants, under Communis: | leadership, refused to pay taxes, and |forced their way inio forests pelong- ‘ing to big landowners to obtain the | lumber they were too poor to buy. |The police, summoned by the land- | lords and the-tax collectors, fired up- on the peasants when they refused |to disperse, but the peasants stood their ground and fovght back heroic- | ally. a | More than 100 peasants haye al- ready been arrested by volice rein- |forcements summoned from neighbor- ing cities, and more are being arrest- ed daily, according to on official gov- ernment statement, which admits having suppressed news of the peas- | ant uprising until now. ARICA MADE FREE PORT BY CHILE |21—The Chilean Government an- |nounced yesterday that the port of | Arica, Pacific outlet of the railway to |La Paz, capital of Bolivia, will soon | become a free port. This action ef- | fectively nullifies Argentina's recent- | ly imposed embargo on Bolivian arms imports, and reflects the growing in- fluence of American finance capital jin Chile (the recent nitrate agree- iment between the Guggenheims and the. Chilean government. etc.). Brazil is reported to have offered | its mediation in the Paraguay-Bo- BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, June; | with the inscription: “To Clara Zet- kin, Lenin's oldest friend and fellow- fighter.” The stream of workers continued past the coffin until 10:15 p.m. The German Socialist leaders and in the Communist Party was e logical continuation of her whole militant political life. Her flaming Reichstag speech, in which she raised the banner of proletarian revolt on high, “made a painful impression Piatnitaky, Knorin, Heckert, Kolarov Bela Kun, Stetzki, and others. At 10:30 p. m. the coffin was car- was a call for mass mobilization for the International Relief Week of the International Red Aid, from June 17) to June 25, follows: “To all those who work by hand last double guard of honor included |@nd brain! “To all those who honestly struggle for the progress of humanity and its development to a higher standard! 15 your attention on Germany O|where dying capiialism, sensing the “Fascism has established a regime only on the Socialist leaders, who see Lig eS STI aca Pot pe RI consistently betrayed the reyolution-| 1100S. the procession aso) s ist at every opportunity. But her the Moscow Crer- y, Where the | threat to its very existence, looks to speech. like her whole revolutionary | COdY Was creme.cd. | fascism as its saviour. life, cheered and encouraged the| OM June 21 funeral meetings took | German working class, for whom she | Place in all the districts of Moscow. | of physical and moral destruction, a gave her all Since early morning today scores of | regime of barbarism, that surpasses The “Forward” slander is of a) thousands of Moscow workers are |in cruelty that of tne Middle Ages. piece with all the Socialist lies poured *#@in visiting the same hall where the out about the German Communist | tiff with the ashes of Clara Zetkin Party and the Soviet, Union. The/ i§ on view Socialist workers will know what to eS : think and do about thetr leaders’! DANZIG, June 21.—The new Sen- infamies | ate, headed by Hermann Rauschn- By N. BUCHWALD. (Moscow Correspondent of the Paity Worker.) MOSCOW, June 22—The coffin containing the body of Clara Zetkin was conveyed on June 20 to the big rule over the more than 400,000 peo- ple of the Free City of Danzig. The tionalist, was formed after the re- cent election on May 28. Wallace Thicacens to Launch Dumping Driv Will Raise Bread Prices to Consumers at Home to Corry on Cut-Throat Competition Abrcad CHICAGO, June 22.—Higher bread prices, hence further beating down of the standards of life of the masses at home, in order to carry on cut- throat competition in the world market—such is the program put forth by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace in a speech yesterday before the National Millers’ Federation convention. Wallace made the brazen statement that efforts will be made to force consumers to pay the highest possible prices fer bread in this country so that the American flour dump wheat on the world market at less than 20 cents a bushel. Secretary Wallace said some means had to be devised to get rid! of the 350,000,000 carry-over of | wheat, because there will soon be| U.S. INTERVENES - TO “CALM” CUBA Bourgeois Groups Hail Welles’ Mediation HAVANA, Cuba, June 22.—Amer- jean imperialist intervention in Cuba was officially admitted today when Senator Pardo, Liberal, arose in the Senate last night and declared: “We must remove the mask. Interven- tion is already decreed.” His speech caused a political sen= sation, and the President of the Sen- ate hurriedly shut him off, and or- dered a secret session of the Senate.| ‘The intervention of Sumner Welles, American Armfbassador, in the domes- tie Cuban situation is becoming more pronounced day by day. After lead- ing groups of Machado’s bourgeois opponents, such as the ABC student organization, the fake Left organiza- tion, the OCRR, and the faculty of the closed University of Havana, has accepted American intervention, masked in the form of mediation, Machado himself has also come out for Welles’ arbitration. All these moves for a compromise between the conflicting groups of the business and landlord class are meet- ing with opposition from the Cuban Sugar workers and peons. who are waging a bitter class struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Cuban National Fed- eration of Labor for shorter hours) harbarowsty and higher pey ip the 5 oppressive suger plantettons and stu- gar milla trust can@ additional surplus. He did not regard | the cutting down of wheat acreage as probable and said: “It is likely now that it will not be possible to make any great cur- tailment of next year’s ‘crop, be- cause of the fact that the interna- tional wheat conference is still in session. ‘9 it is conceivable that the Unites States—if Australia, Argentina @nd Canada do not see the light, might resort to dumping its surplus on the world market at a price as low as: 20 cents a bushel while holding the domestic price at around $1.” A. J. Weaver, head of the wheat division of the Department of Agri- | culture, stated that the processing | tax probably would go into effect | July 3. Price of Bread To Rise The processing tax is fixed at 30 cents a bushel. The tax, which is to be passed on to the consumers |amounts to 70.4 cents a hundred ; pounds of flour. It will enable the grain trust, holding enormous sur- | pluses, to unload inside the country | at a profit so they can dump below the cost of production on the world market. The price of small loaves of bread will rise one-half cent and large loaves one cent. At the same time the poor farmer will not benefit thereby because the little he would receive from the proc- essing tax will be more than eaten ‘up by increased prices he must pay | for every kind of product he must | buy. This shows further sharpening of the world struggle between the capi- talist powers, with the toiling ma bearing the burdens. When trese con- flicts break forth into open warfare | then those who es der arms and defend American for- _ eign markets, The cry of indignation against the cruel treatment meted out to its vic- tims by the brown terror resouncs throughout the world. Tens of thou-, sand* have been thrown into jiils, prisons and concentration camps. Other thousands have been made vic- py Ned ee Ti tele ‘0 | tims of indescribably bestial tortures. other thousands have been brut- | Still ally murdered. Many have been new Senate Cabinet, including two) driven aa refugees acrcss the borders, Catholic Party men and one Na-) while their children liave been de- of bread arid shelter. Workers Are Fighting “But in spite of all this, workers prived are undauntedly, heroically, fightin, against fascism, Solidarity with the | fighting toilers, and relief, material \ent task of the moment for all who|iry, with your unconditional adher- | | million bushels of wheat and one | Federal Farm Board sale of 15,000,000 | stant threat. are now being lowing starved will be called upon to shoul-| ag 9 “starter” for “rehabilitation of | China, { \ reiief, in order to assure at least a bare existence for the victims of mur- dexous fascism—this is the most urg- th: and resent the crimes of blood- uhirsty fascist terror. “Tne International Red Aid. which |for ten years has carried on a world- |the way for fascism and are now cism, in the same of rts 14 million, |men and women members in all) countries, calls upon all and. eve body to rally to the International Re- lief Week for tho victims of fascist t in Germany The immediate | ‘ask af to heip nat.rially—with mo- | ney, Cothes, f heltef, care of) children, medical assistance, finding of work. etc. Help is necessary for | the political prisoners and their de. psndents whom they know to be in bitter need; help is necessary for the | political refugees who are in other | countries without bread or shelter. | Not Sympathy—But Struggle | True to its great historical charac- | ter, the R.A, asks not for alms but | ‘for understanding. It does not de- | mand sympathy—it calls for struggle. | Our relief action goes hand in hand| against the monstrous fascist reac- | th the great siruggle against the eator of this suffering—against the | fascist regime. “Men and women friends! All you | who stand ready to work for relief land in the ‘struggle! Sympathizers! , I urge you to support the action of H the LR.A. with all your strength and | devotion! I urge you to take up | 85 your own cause the cause of the fighters and the sufferers. : Answer Socialist Chiefs | “Social-democratic men and wo- | men workers, men and women mem- | bers of the reformist trade unions, | |ence to the fighting Red Front, to atone for the betrayais of your lead- lers who, with their policy, cleared “Tolling women, remember that | livia Chaco-war, which Paraguay is ascism is depriving you of the rights | Said ~to have accepted eagerly, but that you achieved with bitter strug- | gle. Fascism is depriving you of your work and independence. Re- member that the “Third Reich” ii degrading you to birth-machines and the “servants” of your husbands. Do | not forget the heroic women fighters ‘hom fascism has thrown behind the | prison walls, and who have. been. martyred to death by fascism. | “Men of science, artists, teachers, | writers, followers of the free arts! | See the bonfires in which fascism is burning. the works of culture that | you created and nourished with such | great care. and in WhOse destruction | humanity loses 4 souteé of spiritual | progress. Your aid in thé struggle | tion and your material assistance for | the victims of fascist terror is an | offering to that internationally as- | pired to by the bright spirits of all peoples. Away with the shameful fascist persecution of other races, particularly the indescribable shame of the Jewish pogroms! Toilers of all nations and races! Answer the Jewish pogroms in Germany with the struggle against fascism and the most energetic support of its vic- tims! Internatienal Solidarity “Anti-fascists in all countries! I call upon you, together with the In- ternational Red Aid, to fulfil your solemn duty of international solid- arity. The sacrifice demanded from you by the International Red Aid Bolivia has rejected the offer. This is due to the fact that Brazil is one of the pro-British nations of South! | | ISsPARKS| 'HE editor of the New Republic says that “we are net yet out jof the woods, but the trees Iook a | little thinner ahead.” | So are the meals the workers are getting these days. ROM a contributor, Zaftra, comes the folowing: J. P. Morgan was eel at his club. He growled: | |“This is getting to be a hell of a | country.” | “Then why not give it back to us?” | said his waiter. The capitalist money grunted. lord only | of course, grunting is a sound that would come naturally to a Mor- gan, * * RIMSON KRANK from Los An- geles sends us a sizzling account jof the current “Biggest Battle of the | Century” between the Pound and the | Dollar; | Pound vs, Dollar | Kid Pound ambled out of his cor- ner with a smirk calculated to stop “Old Glory” Dollar, wear- ja clock. jing a sneer a mile long, rushed out’ Southern Manchuria yesterday, ac- |of his corner and aimed one of his \famous shoe lace haymakers at. Pound's chin. Evident had an effect, for Dol! quired so terrified a that three Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution in the front row fainted dead away and had to be carried out. Round 2: For some reason the men must have got the idea that the | fighting was over fer the evening and the racing events were on, for the men exchanged not a punch but spent the entire round escaping from each other. Also, they exchanged some of the most horrible cursing ever heard in these parts, Round 3: Round 3 opened with a shower of cushions, whiskey bottles and blackjacks and other articles calculated to remind the men that this was a fight and not a foot race. The sparring was quite uneventful. Eyen round. In between this round and the next the British government an- nounced the abandonment of the gold standard. Round 4: The announcement evi- dently injected new life into Pound, for he came raging out of his cor- ner in a cyclonic fury, cursing hor- ribly and waving his arms like Dutch windmills. One of his haymakers connected and Dollar flew clean out of the ring, between ropes 3 and 4, America, as is Paraguay, while Bo-|and landed in the laps of three livia is one of the countries con-| buxom Daughters of the American trolied by American imperialism. | Revelution in row six. They, of { is very little in comparison with the | life and blood that is being sacrificed every day by the revolutionary work.- ers in their heroic struggle agaiust fascism. None of us should resi in peace until fascism, with its awful consequences of bloody oppression, | terror, hunger and war, will be con- | quered ana destrcyed. } “With Red Aid Greetings, (Signed) Clara Zetkin, Chair- | in Of the Executive Committee of | the International Red Aid. | Pores ies .-In the United States the collec-| tions referred to by Clara Zatkin will take place July 17 to 23 inclusive. ee ee The International Labor Defense, | in whose name Comrade Zetkin calls the workers of the world into action, is a leading participant in the relief united front of the National Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German | Fascism, 75 Fifth Ave, New York, N. ¥.. Every. workers’ organization, | every sympathizer should respond to| this. call, assisting in, organizing | united front relief and protest con- ferences in every city, and engaging in immediate and broad collection of funds for the victims of the Hitler terror. cowrse, promptly helped him back iuto the ring. Round 5: This was a veritable slaughter. Pound had Dollar down four times for counts of 5, 7, 8 8. Dollar was slammed about the ring, absolutely at Pound’s mercy. The American President evidently saw that something drastic would have to be done, for he immediately called his “Brain Trust” into execu- tive session, and they unanimously voted to place into their man’s hanes a huge wooden mallet (aban- \donment of gold standard). Pound over} Round 6: Doller hit the head with his wooden mallet and brought Pound to his knees plead- ing.for mercy. Dollar has his mallet raised again, but whether he will administer the coupe de. grace re- mains to be seen. Meanwhile further action of Dol- lar is awaited with consternation in Lombard St., and British press com- ment is bitter and to the point. BERLIN, June 20.—Maximilian Spichalski, a worker was sentenced to five months in prison yesterday for spitting on the swastika flag, emblem of the Nazis. The judge ruled the Hit- lerite party bannér was equivalent to the national flag. ROOSEVELT FINANCES NANKING GOVERNMENT Lends $50,000,000 te Aid Campaign Against Chinese S oviets While He Refuses Relief for Starving Millions in United States By K. KITA Recently, the Reconstruction Pin- ance Corporation announced the ex- tension, with Roosevelt's approval, of course, of a credit of $50,000,000 to the National Government of China | “to purchase American cotton and wheat in the ‘open market.’” It is claimed that this is done to “reduc the surplus stocks of wheat and cot- ton. But even the bourgeois press says this won't help much China is going to buy only 10 to 15 million bales of cotton out of a pre- sent surplus of 300,000,000 and 13,- 900.000 respectively of each. The New York Evening Journal Hearst, par 14, entitled ‘iHions for China, but not a Cen‘ for New York,” assailed | this loan bitterly, saying China “ie | as bankrupt as any nation could be”; | she has “no responsible government, and the chances of its ever paying back is about 1,006 to 1,” etc. This Hearst paper, is attacking the loan in order to stir up jingoistic senti- ment and at the same time pretend to be the friend of the unemployed. Nevertheless, it makes the workers and farmers, especially the unem- ployed and their family, think in one respect—“Hoover and the Reose- velt administrations gave $1,875,116,- 624 of R.F.C, funds to bankers, rail- roads, and insurance companies. The latter gives sanction to R.F.C. to ad- vance $50,000,000 to China, despite little chance of its being paid back as a loan. Yet this same govern. ment won't do anything to aid mil- lions of American workers, farmers and their families who go hungry and unclothed. Why?” Let us consider first Nanking’s pur- | pose in getting this loan. We will} understand it sbetter_ then “Where Nanking Wishes To Place Them” George G. Anderson, of the New York Herald-Tribune, let the cat out | of the bag when he, wrote the fol- | After referring to this loan | a | | Chim” (Kuomintang of | ore KK), he some “The ger. | in an editorial on June | |ernment at Nanking is not in the | wheat or flour business, nor is iv operating cotton mills. Its purchases in this country will be promptly sold ie the operators of flour and cot- ton mills (thus aiding Chinese cap- ulists —K.K.) and the proceeds, less amortization and interest pay- mente, HI go where the Nanking | governme..” wishes to place them.” | Now, workers and farmers of Am- experience, for example, the 1930 ‘Load Munitions for Japan in Chester | (By a Worker Correspondent} CHESTER, Pa. — The meamer here in ballast on June 12. bushels of wheat te Nanking, where Nanking wishes to place them, i-c., as Anderson says, cell them. Towards anti-Communist campaign expenses, to be sure! Besides, that part un- sold will be used to, feed and clothe Chiang’s army. For the past few years, the posi- tion of Nanking has been very pre- carious. The successes of the Red since | erica, know very well from previous| Army under the leadership of the | Chinese Communist Party was a con- Four times, Chiang’: ‘anti-Communist “punitive expedi- tion” ingloriously failed atthe hands Jof the Red Army. ‘The fifth, which is now going on, at the expense of leffective resistance to Japanese in- | vaders, and with German advisers ‘and American munitions, airplanes, Fepanese | et¢., is also doomed to a similar fail- “Vancouver Maru” arrived | ure. Even the great city of Han- She is|kow was not so long ago in danger. loading heavy crates of castings, auto | Something must be Gone. To “‘free parts, and other heavy material for | itself” of outside “worries,” so that the imperialist war lords of Janan.|it can concentrate upon the inside —0. enemy, Nanking. was willing to con- Chiang’s Executioner Killing a Worker clude, despite mass “truce” with Japanese invaders. And it did. But for a real anti- Red campaign, the army must be fed, clothed and well equipped. Yet the Nanking Treasury, due to offi- cial plunder and heavy anti-Red campaign expenses in the past, is empty. Nanking—An American Lackey American imperialism has main-' tained its influence in China chiefly through its Chinese lackey, the Nan- king government. The Nanking gov- ernment, however, besides being threatened by the rising tide of Sov- iet revolution, is challenged by the rival government at Canton, which has British supvort, and new is in- trigued upon by various doubtful figures, such as Pan Fu, generals Feng Yu-Hsiang, Shih Yu San, etc., at whose back the hands of Japanese imperialism are seen. On top of all this, the failure: to properly defend the country from Japanese invaders who carved out a big slice from Chinese territory, in- creased dissatisfaction of the masses {against Nanking. So, the United States is very anxious to help Nan- king in order that thru its Nanking lackey to be able to continue its struggle against Japan and in the first place against the Chinese people. “Fortunately,” the Wang Ching Wei- Chiang Kai Shek-Soong clique is car- rying on a campaign to build “na- tional unity” ostensibly later to “ef- fectively” fight against foreign in- vaders. By all means, they must be assisted. And here the interests of the ruling clique of Kuomintang at Nanking and U. S, imperialism meet. The loan is therefore made. Directed Against Chinese People ‘The ability of Nanking to pay back the loan is not so much a concern to the U. S. imperialists. The very strengthening of its hold over China, if attained, will mean a blow against its rival émperialists, in the first place Japan atl England and far exceed the mere’ $50,000,000 loan. Besides, the entire $50,000,000 age not to be f ageciereyrorslp sesh delle eal indignation, a and shipping of purchases are to be done by American firms and steam- ers. We can very well understand why Roosevelt gave sanction to this joan. It is done for the benefit of the boss class. The announcement of this loan had immediate international repercusions. London severely criticized it, con- | tending it “may conflict with the {1920 banking consortium, to which U. S., Britain, France and Japan were parties.” The Canton government, it is reported, is “not satisfied” with the arrangement. Ti. “sending a spe- cial envoy to Tokyo” to have “secret deals.” | In China, today, tens of millions ;go hungry and unclothed because of the mercenary Nanking government, incessant civil war among the rival factions, corruption, and imperialist plunder. Nanking is allowed to “buy” $50,000,000 worth of wheat and cot- ton in the United States. But they are not to be used to feed and clothe these millions. They are to be used for the benefit of a handful of Nan- king cliques which eventually means benefits to the handful'of American bosses. 2 In the United States, 17 million unemployed starve. There are tens of millions of bushels and bales of surplus wheat and cotton respec- tively. They are to be handed over to Chiang-Kai-Shek and his hench- men 5,000 miles away, but they are not to be given to the hungry Amer- icans. ‘This is the logic of the bosses and we know, now, why. The Roosevelt administration spends millions to finance the Nank- ing mercenary armies. The starving millions in the United States should demand that the enormous surplus of wheat, cotton and other products be used for the starving unemployed. The $59,000,000 loan to Nanking should be turned into a relief fund for unemployed, instead of financing the wars of Nanking against the Chinese people, against the Chinese The American MANCHUKUO “ARMY TAKES “NORTH CHINA CivilWar in Szechwan; Canton Orders Boyeott Yangtze Flood Peril SHANGHAI, Jung 22,—Thousands of Manchukuo troops are secretly i- tering into the “demilitarized zone” north and east of Peiping and Tien- tsin, according to dispatches from | 'Tientsin, Over 6,000 troops have en- tered the zone within the Jast few | days, taking over the policing of the zone, which the Chino-Japanese trace provided was to be entrusted to the Chinese. All rail service from Tientein east has been suspended. Thirty Manchukuo railway guerds | were kidnapped by insurgents, who | derailed a freight train near Kirin, t cording to dispatches from Mukden. J Civil War in Szechwan Civil war is again raging on a large scale in far-off Szechwan Province; 10N, | between Governor Liu-Wen-hui and” “ | rival militarist leaders for control of the rich area. Severe fighting is go- | ing on near the city of Kwan-Hsien- | Sze, 30 miles northwesi, of Chengtu, provincial capitai. Thousands of ref- ugees are fleeing to the south. Manchukuo Boycott in Canton ‘The Canton Political Council has ordered a complete boycott of Man- |chukuo exports, and the continuation | of the anti-Japanese boycott. This | step of the British-controlled Canton | regime is a repercussion of the An- | glo-Japanese trade war in the Far East and New Zealand tariff rises on Japanese exports recently decreed. . Yangtze Flood The waters of the Yangtze River are rising rapidly, reaching the 48 foot gauge mark below Chunking and exceeding 43 feet at Hankow. A dike at Wuchang, opposite Hankow, broke, inundating farm areas and drowning eight workers. Hankow itself, indus-- trial center of China, is threatened! with a disastrous flood as the Yang- tze is now only 18 inches from the top of the levees. JAPAN BUILDING NAVY BASE. OFF ‘SIBERIAN COAST |$2,000,000 Harbor “To | Aid Fishing Fleet” Planned TOKYO, June 22.—Under the prew text of providing a harbor for the Japanese crab-fishing fleet, operating off the coast of Soviet Kamchatka, the Japanese Navy is taking steps to construct a naval harbor and base, at the cost of $2,000,000, at Paramu- | | | | Kurile Islands, off the East Siberian | coast. The Nationalist newspeper “Koku- min” provocatively asserts today that Japan will raise the questiox of the Soviet Union ceding Vladivostok, So- viet Pacific port, to Japan in con- nection with the eventual sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway. 5 Althougn denied by the Foreign Office, this “trial balloon” shows the aims of Japanese imperialist expan- sion in the Far East. What is raised today as “possible cession” becomes forcible annexation tomorfow. NAZIS SUPPRESS SOCIALIST PARTY OUST DEPUTIES S. P. Leaders Tried to Evade Blow,Accepting Fascist Rule BERLIN, June 22—The Hitler re- gime today banned the German So- cialist Party, suppressed its newspa- | pers, confiscated the partys property tha RetoMstag and other pariiament- ary bodies. This action, cagring on the heels of the Socialist iaders decision to re- organize the Par, make it acceptable to the Fascist rulers, is a sequel to the similar action taken with the trade unions, which were seized by the Fascists immetiiately after the Socialist. union leaders had declared their readiness to cooperate with the Fascist regime. In both cases the evident unwillingness of tte Socialist leaders to fight for their organiza~ tions’ survival showed the Fascists that they would offer no resistance to their complete annihilation. NAZI INTERNMENT CAMP FOR WOMEN In WUERTTENBERG berg camp at the western end of the State. ‘They have to live in stone-floored barracks, and on iminy days stone floors are as cold as ice, are completely cut. shiro, the northernmost tip of the f 3 ij rt 5 f ‘ if | |. Vig and unseated all Socialist deputies in |