A Secret Order to the First Army Group of the
Red Army to Carry Out Household by
Household Inspections
(October 12, 1930, at 12:00 noon, in Ji'an City)
Although we have now captured this city, there are still reactionary armed
forces, as well as the AB Corps of the local bullies and bad gentry, hiding in the
vicinity of the city. In order to eliminate these reactionaries completely, it is
hereby ordered that household by household inspections should be carried out
this night (October 12). The arrangements are as follows:
I. Inspection time: All the inspection personnel involved must be in their
positions by 2:30 A.M. this night (the 12th) (i.e., on the morning of the 13th); the
inspection will commence everywhere simultaneously at 3:30 A.M.
2. Partition of the inspection area (divided into 7 districts):
a. The city proper.
b. The area that lies north of Tianhou Temple and Laifu alley, south of Xixi
Bridge, and east of South Lake Bridge and Salt Bridge and along the
Rivulet.
c. The area that lies south of Tianhou Temple and Laifu Alley, north of
Zhupai Alley and Bansu Alley, and east of Jingfu Bridge, Wangjia Bridge,
and Xiao Bridge along the rivulet.
The abovementioned three districts are the responsibility of the Fourth
Army, and constitute a single district.
d. The area that lies south of Zhupai Alley and Bansu Alley, and east of Xiao
Bridge and Tiegou Bridge along the river, up to the vicinity of Malan
Pagoda.
e. The area that lies west of Salt Bridge, Jingfu Bridge, Wangjia Bridge, and
Xiao Bridge along the rivulet, and south of the Salt Bridge Electricity
Bureau.
The above-mentioned two districts are the responsibility of the Third Army.
f. The area that lies north of the Salt Bridge Electricity Bureau, and west of
Xixi Bridge, South Lake Bridge and Salt Bridge, up to the border of the
city proper.
Our source for this document is the text in Jiangxi dangshi ziliao, Vol. 6, pp. 158-60. No
earlier version appears to be available.
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This district is the responsibility of one column of the Twelfth Army.
(The water craft on each segment of the river are to be dealt with by the
army unit responsible for the district bordering it.)
3. Inspection personnel. Each inspection group, composed of one squad from
the army, and personnel dispatched by the General Political Department of the
Government of Jiangxi Province, shall inspect the households in the district
assigned to it.
4. The targets of inspection:
Reactionaries and suspected persons.
Arms and military materials.
Reactionary documents.
5. Procedures
a. Vigilance should be exercised while the inspection is taking place:
Guards are to be posted by the Fourth Army at the entry to all roads at
Sansi Shoal, North Gate Bridge, Tung Tree Stockade, XX and Long Pond.
Traffic is to be cut off beginning at nightfall tonight.
b. Subdivision of the inspection area.
The terrain of each district should be reconnoitered by high-ranking
officers sent out by the relevant division, who further subdivide the district
into smaller areas and designate those units which are to be responsible for
them.
c. Beginning the inspection.
All the teams sent out by each unit should arrive at the areas for which
they are responsible by 2:30 A.M., wait until 3:30 A.M., and commence the
inspection simultaneously.
6. Point for attention during the inspection:
No seizure of property is allowed. Upon completion of the inspection, the
company commander and the political instructor of each company shall make a
body search of their officers and soldiers.
Houses in which inspection has been completed should be marked "checked"
with chalk on the door, in order to avoid repeated inspection.
Commander-in-chief
Zhu De
Political Commissar
Mao Zedong