Chapter 53 Announcement of the Anti-Japanese Pioneer Army of the Chinese People's Red Army

(March 1, 1936) It is for the announcement: Japanese imperialism is rampant in North China, and no one can stop it.Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan, and Song Zheyuan[1] were servile and obsequious, and they were naturally obsequious.The death of the whole country is imminent.The Central Government of the Chinese Soviet People's Republic and the Military Commission of the Chinese People's Red Army dispatched their own troops to the east to resist Japan.All patriots, revolutionary benevolent people, regardless of old or new, regardless of faction, regardless of origin, who sympathize with resisting the Japanese imperialists, our army is willing to unite with them and jointly carry out the great cause of national revolution.Wherever the army goes, it protects the patriotic movement, the revolutionary people, the interests of workers and peasants, intellectuals, and industry and commerce.Our army advocates the cessation of all civil wars. The Red Army and the White Army unite to fight against Japan. All patriotic soldiers, whether they actively join forces with our army to resist Japan, or passively do not oppose our army and the patriotic people's resistance against Japan, our army is willing to fight with our army and the patriotic people. negotiation, agreement or understanding.Our greatest enemy of China is Japanese imperialism. All the clans that live on the earth and live on the soil should all rise up together and unite as a country.If the skin does not exist, the hair will be attached, and the country is lost, so where is the body? The flag of righteousness is built in the country, and the sky is conquered in Yuyu.If you have strength, you will contribute, if you have money, you will have money, if you have guns, you will produce guns, and if you have knowledge, you will produce knowledge. It is my spirit to count one as ten, and it is my strength to count ten as one.The survival of the Chinese nation, the inevitable fall of Japanese imperialism, and the number of victories and defeats are self-evident.Those who do not understand the righteousness, flatter foreigners, and even resist our own army are abandoning themselves to the people of our country, and our army should be regarded as traitors and traitors.Workers, peasants, businessmen and soldiers unite! Down with Japanese imperialism! Down with traitors and traitors! Long live the Anti-Japanese National War! Long live the new China of freedom, equality and territorial integrity! This announcement is hereby made.

Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai General Political Commissar Mao Zedong March 1, 1936 According to the ninety-sixth issue of Struggle, the official newspaper of the Northwest Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China, published on April 24, 1936. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Note [1] Yan Xishan, see note [14] on page 371 of this volume.Song Zheyuan (1885-1940), a native of Leling, Shandong.At that time, he was the chairman of the Jicha Political Affairs Committee of the Kuomintang government and the commander of the 29th Army of the Kuomintang Army.