The Daily Worker

19th Route Army Inspires Peasants of Manchuria Fight With New Courage Against Japanese Invaders. Missionary Admits

heroic stand of the gallant Nineteenth Route Army at Shanghai, declares Charles. A. Leonard, a missionary agent of American imperialism, following his return to Harbin, after a month's tour of the eastern districts of Manchuria. He states:

I observed that anti-Japanese sentiment in the interior had greatly increased since receipt of news of the Shanghai trouble and the gallant stand of the Nineteenth Route Army. The Chinese success- it is regarded as such by the Chinese-seems to have inspired the people of the Manchurian back country with a new confidence in their ability to resist the Japanese.

Leonard reports that outside of the railway zone the Manchoukuo puppet government set up by Japanese bayonets is "absolutely without authority."

He says he found the conditions of the Chinese peasants and the towns-people "pitiable in the extreme."

"Conditions have been aggravated instead of improved by Japanese military penetration." He admits Japanese responsibility for these conditions. but at the same time tries to help the Japanese war provocations against the Soviet Union by peddling the Japanese slander that the Soviet Union is furnishing arms to the insurgents:

He says:

"There is no question in my mind but what lawless conditions in Eastern Manchuria may be traced directly to the instability and public nervousness resulting from the Japanese invasion. This view is borne out by inquiries among the Chinese residents of the area.

". . Much of the ammunition used by the so-called anti-Kirin troops in China comes from Soviet Russia. Many Chinese are using rifles of Russian manufacture,"