The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1934, Page 6

Page Six 4 Daily “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 19m Published daily, except Sunday, by the Publishing Co., Inc,, 50 East 13th St., New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954. ‘Daiwork,” New York, H ¥ le Address shington Bu Room 984, National Freee Desiding, 4th and F. St,, Washington, D. ©. Subscription Rates: Sy Mail: (except Manhattan snd Bronx), 2 yeas, 98.00; $ months, $3.50; 2 months, $2.00; 1 month, 78 cents. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $8.00; $ months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By Ci 18 cents; monthly, 75 centa, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1934 Silencing Their Own Agent Ss LONG as Van der Lubbe, the Dutch derelict who Worked as an agent of the Nazis, was alive, he was ® living accusation of their own guilt in the world- notorious Reichstag fire frame-up. That is why they executed him with such desperate haste. That is why they suddenly, and without warn- ing, killed him, after taking great pains to keep him in a continual state of stupefaction by drugging him. The deadly fear of the Nazis that Van der Lubbe might at any moment spill the story of his connec- tions with the Hitler-Goering murderers and provoca- teurs did not let them rest until they finally silenced Rim for good. Let no one forget that day in the trial when, under the hammer blows of Dimitroff’s cross-exami- nation, Van der Lubbe, slowly coming out of his ‘weual torpor, began to splutter about his meetings “with the Nazis”! ‘That is why, from the very first, as the secret Nazi documents which were exposed by the Daily Worker proves, the Fascists were planning to get rid of him as quickly as possible! If Van der Lubbe began to talk then, when might he not begin to talk again! And to hide their own guilt in the Reichstag fire which stares through even the testimony of the Leipzig trial, the Fascists with ‘unseemly speed killed him. SUDDEN, secret, execution of the Nasi tool Van der Lubbe by the Fascists should come as a shock of terrible warning that our four heroic Comrades, Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff are still in the hands of the Nazi murderers. Not only that. They are still lodged in the ceils of the same prison where the execution of Van der Lubbe took place. If the Nazis struck with such sudden, secret mur- at their own agent, Van der Lubbe, what is to stop them from suddenly leaping with lynch fury at our comrades now held in isolation in their cells! ‘The terrible menace to the lives of our comrades, » four revolutionary working class heroes whose ice is now known by the entire world, is wit- ssed by the following statement issued in the Nazi justifying the sudden execution of Van der “...to confront the public with an accomplished fact without long preliminary palavers as a token of its 3 ®, assurance and determination, and a warn- ing to other international revolutionaries of the Com- rowntist persuasion.” Here is barely concealed a» sinister threat, an- mcing the intention of making the lynching of ‘off, Torgler, Popotf, and Taneff an “accomplished is thought must burn in the mind of every every man and woman who hates the Fascist brutality and barbarism—that if we do not rouse our- Selves again in world mass protest, there is the great- est danger that we may awake one morning to find the lynching of the four Communists as an “ae- complished fact”! World mass protest forced the acquittal of the Communist defendants! Only world mass protest can protect them against a Nazi lynching! We must sound a warning against being lulled into a slackening of our fight to free Dimitroff, Torgler and their comrades. The fight must rise again to new heights. Let us take warning from the Van der Lubbe execution! Its meaning is unmistakable. It 1s ® ghastly reminder of what the Nazis still hope to secomplish with our comrades in the Fascist dungeon! Activize all committees for the safe release of Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff! Send a hail of messages, telegrams, to the German consulates, Am- bassador at Washington, demanding the safe release of the prisoners! Wherever workers gather, call meet- ngs for the passing of resolutions to be sent to the German Fascist consuls in this country. Let the Fascists know that our eyes are upon them! This alone can balk them in their lynch plans against Dimitroff, Torgler, and their comrades! For mass protest for the safety of our revolution- ary working class heroes! Green---A Nazi Pupil Be THIS time the stool-pigeon document of William Green, A. F. of L. head, calling upon Roosevelt to form a secret Federal police agafhst the revolu- tionary movement is now familfar. In this document, reeking with stool-pigeon filth, jies, slanders and perjuries, Green, as head of the Most corrupt union bureaucracy in the world, seeks to frighten the American masses with crude echoes of the very same “red scare” hysteria with which Hitler's publicity agents sought to stampede the work- ers of Germany. "Green and his henchmen are facing the most determined militant opposition from the rank and file of their unions that they have seen. The revo- lutionary opposition in the unions is growing. The influence of the revolutionary trade unions is growing. The toiling masses, the ruined farmers and petty bourgeois, are turning toward the growing influence of the Communist Party in their struggle to find a way out of the crisis. “That is why Green now attempts to Trighten the tiasses with his fantastic bogeys of the “red scare.” Ti is the ancient, stale method of the capitalist ruling class whenever it faces the growing resistance of the Masses whom it exploits. Green sought to bind the workers to the NR.A. ‘Slave codes with his glowing description of the codes 8s the “charter of labor.” __ Today he cannot conceal so easily from the workers _ that it ins failed to solve the crisis, that it has acted ‘BS a Weapon of strikebreaking, as a weapon for beat- _ihg down the wages and working conditions of the ‘Workers. His own A. F. of L. economists have been |Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. i Please send me more information om the Commu- is 2QWorker | DATLY forced to admit that the N.R.A. has beaten the work- ers down lower than under the Hoover admiMfiistration. Green feels the rising rebellion of the masses against the broken promises, the false, treacherous hopes of the N.R.A. which the Greens and the A. F. of L. officialdom sought to tighten about the necks of the workers. That is why he now seeks to terrify the workers in the unions, the opposition and the revolutionary unfons, and the masses in general with the old phan- toms of the “red scare.” /$ IT uct remarkable how similar is William Green's technique of raising all the time-worn, fantastic bogeys of the “red scare” to the technique of Hitler's Fascist publicity agents in Germany? Did not Hitler beat a steady drum of hysteria over a “Communist uprising” as the prelude and justifica- tion for the unleashing of bloody Fascist murder against the working class and the militant trade unions? Is not this just what Green is doing now when he writes in his 178-page document, with the hysterical fear of a coal owner trembling for the | loss of his fat profits: “Arms are not to be supplied until after the civil war has been started ... the bonus, and hun- ger marches were designed as military training, gradually leading up to an armed insurrection .. .” Did not Hitler too, fing hundreds of thousands of German workers inte concentration camps, murder thousands more, and plan the notorious Reichstag fire frame-up—all this a the very same charge of “armed insurrection?” UT notice how, in trying to befoul the struggles of the workers with his venom, he repeats exactly the same Fascist lies about “individual assassination,” ete., with which Goering and the Fascist judges are now trying to murder Dimitroff, Torgler, and all the other working class prisoners in the Nazi jails. Is there any mistaking the astonishing similarity between the Fascist “red scare” which preceded the Nazi terrorism and the reactionary stool-pigeon, Wil- ilam Green? Green warns the workers about the “assassinations.” But is it not a fact that it is the A. F. of L, officialdom that maintains organized groups of gangsters and thugs who have beaten and murtered more than one militant worker in the A. F. of L. unions? Is it not a fact that the most corrupt racketeers, maintaining thugs, are in the Green-controlled unions? Is it not a fact that it is the capitalist employers who hire thugs for individual murder of striking workers? Green seeks to terrify the workers in the trade unions, in the A. F. of L. locals and in the revolu- tionary Industrial Unions with his Fascist-like howling about “red insurrection” and “individual assassina- tion.” He yells his discovery that the Communist Par- ty is a “revolutionary party.” The Communist Party has never concealed the fact that is a party of the proletarian revolution, the revolution of the oppressed and toiling masses against capitalist hunger, unemployment and wage slavery. It is only by mass actions of the majority of the proletariat that the Communist Party prepares for the overthrow of capitalist wage slavery. Green and his capitalist masters know this. Why then do they now begin to beat the drums of the “red Is it not a fact that the Communist Party has been shown before the whole world to be a party whose whole philosophy is against all acts of individual ter- rorism? Is not ® fact that the Fascists in Germany failed miserably in their attempt to frame-up the four Com- munists on charges of arson, and only proved to the world that it was they themselves who were guilty of the Reichstag fire? The method of Hitler’s provocations for stopping the growing infiuence of the Communist Party is also being used by William Green. That is why Green, leading the way for the cap- italist class as it prepares to tighten its police forces, its measures of growing Fascist reaction against the militant trade unions, against the revolutionary move- ment of the working class led by the Communist Par- ty, imitates all the technic used by Hitler in his “red scare” campaigns. As the trade union bureaucrats of Germany, the Tarnovs, Leiparts, etc. paved the way for Fascism, and then sought to embrace it when it came into power, so their American counterparts in the A. F. of L. officialdom are taking the lead in organizing Tuling class terrorism against the growing revolutionary move- ment of the working class. ————EEes Ford Blesses N.R.A. TEE hish-sounding prattle last summer about Henry Ford’s opposition to the N.R.A. is now exposed in all its hollowness. In an exclusive interview with a New York Times writer in Detroit, the perpetrator of the massacre of hungry, unemployed Ford workers, declares he is not against the N.R.A. Quite the contrary, according to Mr. Ford. The N.R.A. doesn’t go far enough for him. Henry Ford was helped out considerably by the N.R.A. last Sum- mer when Mr. William Green, John L. Lewis, and Sidney Hillman, on the National Labor Board, helped to break the strikes in Ford’s Chester, Pa. and Edge- water, N. J. plants. ‘The lawyer for the Edgewater strikers came back from Washington one day last week and told the men to quit looking for any support from the N.R.A. labor board. i FORD mate i clear that the N.RA. iss wonderful means for raising the bosses’ profits and smashing down the workers’ standard of living. “Opposed to the N.R.A.?” exclaimed Ford. “Why should we be opposed to it?” Crafty Mr. Ford asks the question all bosses put to themselves when they see the N.R.A. working as it did in Weirton Steel, Budd Auto, Philadelphia Rapid Transit, and in the two Ford plants. Why should they oppose an act that raises their profits at the ex- pense of the workers, The N.R.A. from the very beginning was designed to lower the workers living standard, to raise profits, and to beat back the struggles of the workers, Now that it is working out in practice even more to the likening of the bosses than they even wished for at the beginning, those who lagged behind for reasons of conflicts between various monopolies who had an edge. Ney that it is working out in practice even more to the liking of the bosses than they even wished for, those who held back for some reason or other, are becoming the most enthusiastic, Ford’s apparent opposition to the N.R.A. was main- ly because General Motors jumped in on the band- wagon first and got the largest amount of gravy. But now Ford finds his gains as a result of the attack on the workers are substantial enough for him to become & most ardent supporter of the N.R.A. In fact, this dried-up exploiter of the auto workers, cries: Give us more of it! t peek WORKER. NEW YORK. FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1934 ‘World Party | | Ends Meet on | | Present Tasks) | Resolution of 13th Ple- | num of Comintern in | “Daily” Saturday The 13th plenuim of the Executive | Committee of the Communist Inter- |national, which has just taken place |in Moscow, with representatives from nearly every Communist Party of the world, thoroughly ansiyzed the pres- ent international.situation, and laid} jdown a clear line for the present jtasks of the’ Communist Parties. | | | | | Seventy-five speakers from the dif- ferent countries took part in the dis- cussion on which the decisions are based. After this thorough discus- sion, the resolutions were unanim- ously adopted, The discussion brought forward the inspiring work of those Communist Parties which are now illegal, and the big strides forward made by these | Parties in spite of the fascist terror |raging in these countries. Parti- cularly, progress has been made in China, Japan, Germany and Poland, all countries under the domination of a murderous fascist terror. In China the Soviet districts now in- clude over eighty million people. The attempt of the imperialist powers and the Kuomintang to crush the Chinese Soviets has been defeated. The Com- munist Party of China has grown rapidly. In Japan, in spite of un- heard of terror, the Party has car- ried on splendid work, especially in its anti-war campaign. The plenum received reports of the rapid and effective adjustment by the Communist Party of Germany to the conditions of the Hitler terror, and the carrying forward of the revolu- tionary fight of the working class of Germany in the face of this sweeping terror. The leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the work of socialist cc s uction was reported on; the triutv... of the Soviet Union in building its industry and the grow- ing strength of the country of the workers and peasants, The Thirteenth Plenum of the Communist International was prac- tically a world congress on a small scale, giving the lie to those rene- gades—Trotskyites ‘and Lovestonites— who slander the Communist Inter- national by their mouthings of there having been no world congress since 1928, The discussions and decisions were carried out on the basis of a thorough self criticism, the weak points in the work of the parties were fully brought to light, so that they may be cor- rected in the future work of the parties. The agenda of the 13th Plenum of the E. C. C. I. included four points: 1) Report and theses on the Inter- national Situation; 2) Report of the Communist Party of Germany; 3) Report on the work of the Commu- nist Party of Great Britain in regard to the united front and the I. L. P.; 4) Preparations for the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International. The main report was made by Comrade Kuusinen, The resolutions of the plenum and speeches of the leaders of the world parties should be studied by every worker. They give a guide to all the tasks of the parties at the present time, and outline the concrete tasks of the Communist Parties in their own countries, The main resolution of the 13th plenum, entitled, “Fascism, the Dan- ger of War and the Tasks of the Communist Parties, will be published in full tomorrow in the 10 page Daily Worker Saturday, Jan. 13. Plan Anti-War, Fascism League in Wilmington; Conference on Jan. 19 WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. 11— Plans for the formaton of a branch of the American League Against War and Fascism will be discussed at a conference, Friday night, Jan. 19, at Workmen’s Circle Hall, 223 Shipley St., here, J. B. Matthews, former secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, ousted because.of his militant anti- war stand, will Speak on “Guns Over Cuba.” Donald Henderson, secretary of the League, will tell of the prog- ress made by the organization, The conference was to have been held in the local Y. M. C. A. build- ing, but the authorities later refused its use by the workers, (Continued from Page 1) spoils—making a forum for them- selves out of the event, and not one consumer’s voice raised until we fought and presented the small case we had. Even so the record shows how the racketeers of busi- ness have feathered their nests in the name of ‘patriotism’ and ‘re- covery?” PRICES RISE Coal, milk, copper boilers, po- tatoes and other articles, have skyrocketed, these. witnesses said. From November, 1932, to Decem- ber, 1933, potatoes rose 57 per cent. In 13 large cities milk in- creases averaged 20 per cent. A group of “household” articles, such as electric switches, show varying increases from 21 per cent. to 144 per cent., and government statistics say that more than 75 per cent. of the increases were attributable to “recovery” mea- sures. The price of copper boilers rose, on Long Island, from $40 to $90 in anticipation of the code, and then to $140—a rise of 250 per cent. since midsummer, a rise of 55 per cent, since the date of the adoption of the code cover- Wages Drop Hoisington, showing the outrageous contrast between these price increases and actual decreases in individual Storm Trooper Reveals ‘Nests Fired Reichstag; Is Murdered Rall Rushed to Berlin After Confession; Tortured, Killed NEW YORK.—The confession and subsequent murder of a Nazi storm trooper who took part in the firing of the Reichstag building for which four Communist leaders were placed on trial for their lives, is reported by the Paris correspondent of the Trans- Atlantic Information Service, a news service issued by the Social Demo- cratic parties, with New York of- fices at 41 Union Square. The T. I. 8. release reports: PARIS (T. I. S.)—The TIS. cor- respondent is in possession of sen- sational information which fully con- firms the charges voiced outside the Germany that the Nazis were solely responsible for the Reichstag fire. Transported Explosion from Goering’s House Acording to a reliable confidential German source, a recent inmate of the Berlin penitentiary, Rall, re- quested last November an interview with the prison director. After de- claring that he was a former mem- ber of the notorious Hitler storm troop No. 17, he stated that he was in the secret tunnel between the residence of the Nazi Premier Goe- ring and the Reichstag when the fire started. He confessed also to his par- ticipation in the transport of large packages of inflammable and explo- | | sive material to the Reichstag build- ing by the Nazi storm troopers and gave a number of other details which plainly proved that he was excep- tionally well acquainted with the cir- cumstances surrounding the mys- terious case. Rall declared his will- ingness to appear before the Supreme Court at Leipzig sitting in judgment over Van der Lubbe and his alleged Communist conspirators, Transferred to Berlin, Mangled Body Found Later As soon as the statements of Rall became known several prison’ offi- cials hinted plainly that the prisoner was talking himself “off his head. The secret political police, imme- mediately informed of these unex- pected developments, took charge of the case and submitted Rall to a gruelling cross-examination within the prison. A few days later, he was secretly transferred to police headquarters in Berlin and nothing more was heard of him. Finally, the prison authorities overcame — their reluctance and inquired as to the whereabouts of the prisoner and when his return to the prison could be expected. After considerable de- lay, they were suddenly informed by the political police that Rall had succeeded in breaking away from his guards on the way back to prison. Shortly before Christmas or about two weeks later, the cruelly mangled body of the man was found in the neighborhood of Berlin. French Govt.Seeks To Gag Press, Stop Swindle Exposure PARIS, Jan. 11—A threat to gag the press was made in the French Chamber of Deputies by Premier Camille Chautemps today, following additional revelations of government complicity in the colossal swindle of thousands of small investors, unem- ployed workers and insurance com- panies of $40,000,000 in the looting of the Credit Municipal Bayonne by Serge Stavisky. The threat is directed especially against the Communist newspaper “L’Humanite,” which has exposed government officials involved in the scandal which has evoked a wave of mass fury throughout France, with several anti-government demonstra- tions in Paris and other cities. “L’ Humanite” was also the first paper to tear to shreds the police suicide version of the death several days ago of Stavisky, and to charge govern- ment agents with murdering the fugitive financier to prevent further exposures of governmental corrup- tion, In an attempt to “pass the buck,” the Chautemps Cabinet today hinted at disciplinary measures against the courts which shielded Stavisky, ad- mitting that there had been “unjust- ifled adjournments” of his trial on several counts of previous frauds In addition to Chautemps, and De- limier, former colonial minister who resigned under fire, Deputy Gaston Bonnaure of the ruling “Radical Socialist” party was today involved in the scandal, when the investigating magistrate at Bayonne discovered papers in Stavisky’s belongings re- vealing that Stavisky had financed Bonnaure’s electoral campaign and paid his tailor bills. The Chamber of Deputies is to debate today on the question of withdrawal of parlia- mentary immunity to permit arrest of Bonnaure. The Communist deputies will push a demand for an open investigation of the government when the Cham- ber of Deputies debates the scandal today. They will also charge the government with murdering Stavisky. buying power as a result of the spread-the-work movement under the codes, said that “real earnings of New York State factory workers have fallen about five per cent since June. Real weekly wages of individual New York factory workers, in fact, are practically at the low point of the depression. Big Profits Marsh asserted that the so-called “fair” price increases under N.R.A. are based on $150,000,000,000 worth of surplus or watered stock, and $250,000,000,000 worth of funded corp- orate debts on which interest and dividends are paid. These statements were inserted in the record after Marsh was virtually thrown out of the meeting—for when he asked, “Are you going to hear from consumers, or is this a frame up?” Donald Richberg, chief counsel of the N.R.A., who had made an opening statement, cried: “We are not going to turn this into a disorderly town meeting!” Nevertheless, the time was largely devoted to hearing from buyers from mail-order houses, buyers for Univer- sities demanding special cut-prices for their interests, buyers for cities and states and business representa- tives complaining of raw material prices. Secret Price that the City of Milwaukee received nine identical bids for armored cable showing a 62 per ewit increase over the same cable a year ago. And “the salesman told me an accountant had prepared all the bids and the com- panies must submit those bids or not submit at all.” A Maryland State purchasing agent declared that he received fifteen bids for a group of supplies—fourteen of them identical. E. J. Gordon, repre- senting the Mail Order Association, declared that open-price-fixing pro- visions were stricken out of N.R.A. codes, but that the same thing is now being done “disguised under the so-called open price list clauses.” The period before the price list be- comes effective, he said, is “the period of persuasion,” and “prices are aver- aging even higher than they would under an outright price-fixing clause.” A Mobile, Ala., dealer said he had been forced to raise the tag on over- alls from 95 cents to $1.45; a Phila- delphia merchant reported he had been “obliged” to double his prices. NAVY PLANES NEAR HAWAIT HONOLULU, Jan. 11—The squad- ron of six seaplanees flying to Hawaii were within 300 miles of their goal late this afternoon, The entire flight Agreements A Milwaukee purchasing agent said!is 2,400 miles. Nazis Admit Huge Increase in Jobless Army Since Dee. Ist 366,000 Fired; Job Creation Program Secretly Dropped BERLIN, Jan. 11.—Official Nazi figures show a huge increase in unem- ployment, with 366,000 workers thrown otit of work since Dec. 1, making a total of 4,050,000 unemployed, accord- ing to Nazi statistics, which, how- ever, do not reveal the true condi- tions. Tens of thousands of young workers forced to work in the labor camps at wages oniy slightly above the unemployed dole are deceptively listed as employed, while tens of thousands of revolutionary and Jew- ish workers who, for obvious reasons, do not register with the Nazi author- ities are not listed among the unem- ployed. Jewish workers displaced by Nazi supporters are not listed among the unemployed. Only a month ago the Nazis were shouting about a great reduction in unemployment, which they claimed vindicated Hitler’s program of forzed labor camps and “job creation.” The rapid growth of unemployment is further emphasized in the constant decrease of revenue from the Nazi tax on wages above 10 marks & month (currently $37). os eee BERLIN, Jan, 11.—The widely ad- vertised schemes of Hitler to create work for the unemployed are rapidly being abandoned with utmost secrecy. Two notices in the press recently bear this out. The “Deutsche Berg- werks-Zeitung” states: “The Employers Union of Aix-La Chapelle and Environs, resolved at its session to cancel the single loom its last session to cancel the single loom system. again, The single loom system was introduced in August this year for the purpose of enabling unemployed persons to be given work. ‘The experience gained since then has shown, however that the abolition of the two-loom system has considerably increased the costs of production, and the textile industry has suffered greatly. The competent authorities have declared their agreement to the reintroduction of the double loom system.” The same day the official Wolf's Telegraph Bureau published the fol- lowing notice: “Today the first sod was turned commencing the work of building the state motor road Elbing- Koingsberg.” A few hours later Wolff newspapers received urgent instruc- tions: “Notice: The report ‘First Sod Turned’ is to be withdrawn. Some reporter had sent out a no- tice of a spadeful of earth that had not been turned at all. N.R.A. Hearing Tries to Hide Huge Profiteering Number of Pensioned Veterans Cut in Half By Nat’l Economy Act WASHINGTON, Jan, 11—One- half of the veterans formerly re- ceiving pensions from the federal government have been dropped as the result of the Roosevelt Na- tional Economy Act passed last Spring, it was announced by Frank T. Hines, veterans administrator. Hines statement showed that the total number of veterans re- ceiving pensions when Roosevelt took office was 1,016,561, and that on Nov, 30, 1933 this number had been slashed to 514,784. The total money disbursed was also cut in half. The number of pensioned dependents of dead veterans was cut from 279,926 to 265,528. Hospital care to veterans was also cut by the Roosevelt Economy Act. In March, 48,823 veterans were receiving medical care, and on Nov. 30, this had been cut to 34,738, The number {in institutions was cut from 20,544 in March to 11,339 in November, Chinese Soviets. Victorious on Several Fronts Japanese Threaten Inter. yention in Fukien Proyince § SHANGHAI, Jan. 11. — The anth> Communist offensive, directed by> British agents in Szechwan province,’ has collapsed. Gen. Liu Hsiang, the” Nanking commander, has telegraphed a desperate plea to Nanking for funds to meet the demands of his rebellious soldiers, who have not been paid for months, Many have deserted to the Chinese Red Army. The Soviet District in the province has been greatly extended and the Red Army is now in control of one of the most important harbor towns on the Yangtze River, the town of Wansien, which was formerly a come Manding point for imperialist oper~ atio:s and concessions in the prove ince. Control of the town by the Red Army represents a threat to the great industrial city of Hankow. In southwest Szechwan, the Come munist Party has organized a nume ber of peasant insurrections and mutinies in two brigades of the Nan- king army. Local Soviets have been set up in a number of district cap- itals. Several new Red Army divi- sions were formed. In recent fighting in North Fukien province, the Red Army defeated three Nanking armies, capturing 4,600 rifles, 50 heavy and 30 light machifié-guns, 500 Mauser pistols, 400,000 rounds of ammunition, 3 mili- tary radio stations, 5,000 hand gren- ades and large quantities of other war materials. Three regiments of the Nanking forces went over to the Red Army. In the town of Yenping, 2,000 workers joined the Red Army, and over 85 per cent of the workers joined the Red trade unions. The Red Army troops operating in Western Hunan and Hupeh, under command of Ho Lung, have occupied the district of Sunkiang in Hupeh, and the Sanki district in Hunan. Red Army forces are also operating suc~ cessfully in the province of Chekiang, the home of Chiang Kai-shek, Nan- king dictator. . ee Pte J SHANGHAI, Jan, 11—With Nan- king forces 25 miles from Foochow, Fukien city seaport, the 19th Route Army of the Fukien secessionist regime is reported constructing a formidable “Hindenburg line” 20 miles from the city to stem the Nanking advance. Japan, which has concentrated large naval forces in Fukien seaports, threatened direct intervention today if any of its nationals are injured in the fighting. The Japanese have ree jected a request from Nanking to withdraw its nationals from the fighting zones. In Sinkiang province, Gen. Chang Pai-yuan, Nanking commander, was assassinated yesterday. He had re« cently suffered a severe defeat. In Northwest China, Gen. Sun Tien-ying, recently defeated by Nan- king forces, has formed an alliance with Gen. Ma Hung-kwei, warlord of Ninghsia province, Bolivians Retreat; | New Revolt Plots in Colombia and Peru Japan Grabs Trade in j Chile from U. S. and British Rivals BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 11—In sharp fighting in the Chaco yester- day the Paraguayan forces continued to drive the shattered Bolivian army before them, capturing several addi tional forts. j 3 sew Argentina Rebels Active BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 11.—The Argentine government temporarily lifted its censorship on rebel activi ties today to report a battle near San Tome, last week, in which it claims Federal troops routed a rebel force, killing ten and wounding six, si * * * Army Involved In Peru Revolt Plot LIMA, Peru, Jan. 11—In prepara tion for resumption of war with Col- ombia, the Peruvian government is rushing through the trial of 20 non- commissioned officers involved in a plot to» overthrow the government, The authorities claim that the entire Third and Fifth Infantry Regiments here and the Second Artillery Regi< ment-in a suburb were involved. A number of police also were arrested today in connection with the plot, ‘The bourgeois press is feverishly ap= pealing for a united front in the “national emergency.” apn ih Ga 20 Killed, 40 Wounded In Colombia BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 11—Over @ score were killed and forty wounded in anti-government clashes in the State of Santander, following with- drawal of garrisons in the mobiliza~ tion. of. troops against Peru. Great unrest, . arising agrarian crisis and impoverishment of the masses, is reported throughs out the country. ‘ * Japan Grabs Trade of Rivals In Chile SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan, 11.—Japa- nese trade penetration of South America, in rivalry with British and U. 8. imperialists, has made great headway in this country, with im- ports of Japanese goods recently rise ing to $4,000,000. Japan is also buys ing ‘large quantities of Chilean wool and hides and mineral products suite able for Japanese war preparations, Japanese commercial agents are reported making great headway in. other South American countries in wresting trade from their U. S. and British rivals, and stret Japan's political influence, leading to a fierce sharpening of the imperialist for control of markets and resources of South America,