OPPOSE JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS' OCCUPATION OF JEHOL AND ATTACK ON PEKING AND TIENTSIN

Proclamation of Provisional Central Government

3 March 1933

[Text] To the masses of all China!

The 75mm artillery and great numbers of fighters and bombers of the Japanese imperialists are now carrying out inhumane bombardment massacres in the Jehol area! Eight Japanese imperialist divisions and ten brigades with the support of several hundred aircraft, are now attacking Ch'ing-te from three directions! The KMT generals continue to follow their shameless policy of non-resistance and retreat step by step, giving up K'ai-lu, P'ing-luo and all aerodromes, and have abandoned hundreds of thousands of peaceful inhabitants and anti-Japanese soldiers to be trodden under the iron hoofs of Japanese imperialism, crushed and massacred!

Masses of all China! More than half of Jehol has already fallen into the hands of the Japanese imperialists, and all of North China is at a life-or-death crisis, and the tragic fate of colonial slavery directly threatens the toiling masses of all China!

Masses of all China! The imperialists' bandit war to invade and enslave all of China is now being frenziedly waged, and only one road lies before us: to arm ourselves and wage a revolutionary national liberation war. Only the armed strength of the millions of the masses can defeat the bandit war of the Japanese and all imperialists to invade and enslave China and can gain independence, liberation and territorial integrity for the Chinese people! The Provisional Chinese Soviet government has repeatedly called upon the masses of all China to arise and wage a victorious national revolutionary war together with the Worker-Peasant Red Army and the toiling masses of the Soviets. In its most recent declaration, it clearly declared before the masses of China that the Chinese Worker-Peasant Red Army is willing to conclude a conditional wartime agreement with all true anti-Japanese units. But the KMT warlords and politicians have most shamelessly knelt before the imperialists and betrayed China, practicing non-resistance and surrender, have cut off the Three Eastern Provinces and sold out Shanghai and massacred anti-Japanese and anti-imperialist worker-peasant masses and revolutionary fighters, and forbidden the organization of all goods boycotts and anti-Japanese militias. Now, at the very moment when the Japanese imperialists are attacking Jehol with all their strength, they even more openly advocate abandoning Jehol and Peking and Tientsin; they protest that this is a strategic necessity, while at the same time they attack the Chinese worker-peasant masses and the worker-peasant government and Red Army with dozens of divisions! The Soviet Government declares that it is willing to draw up a wartime agreement with all truly anti-Japanese armies. The KMT response to this declaration is to retreat step by step before the iron hoofs of the Japanese imperialists, without dispatching a single soldier to Jehol to resist the Japanese; but to dispatch the greater part of its military force to Kiangsi and under the personal leadership of the counterrevolutionary chieftain Chiang Kai-shek to cruelly attack the soviet areas! It is precisely because the soviet areas have called upon and organized the anti-imperialist, anti-Japanese movement throughout the country that the traitorous KMT government has, with increased ferocity, resorted more and more to burning, slaughter and pillage, military adventurism and economic blockade, with the aim of hindering the development of the soviet movement, in order to break the main force of anti-imperialism and resistance to Japan!

The KMT warlords and politicians plan to treat the soviet government's declaration that it is willing to draw up a wartime treaty with all anti-Japanese units as an expression of the Soviet government and Worker-Peasant Red Army's weakness; but this actually expresses their own obtuseness and stupidity. The warfare of the last 2 days has taught these traitorous warlords a stern lesson: the 52nd and 59th divisions have been entirely disarmed, and these commanders and staff officers have all been captured, so that the Red Army is shambles. The Soviet movement has gained the support of millions of the masses, while the KMT warlords' military adventurism and economic blockade have only served to further stir up the resistance of the toiling masses of the entire country, and in addition have created favorable conditions for the further advancement of the soviet movement!

The Chinese Soviet Government is preparing to wage war directly against the troops of the Japanese imperialists and to drive them out of China. Accordingly, we must eliminate all reactionary armies and armed groups which hinder us in doing battle with Japan! The Soviet Government and the Worker-Peasant Red Army once more declare that they are willing to enter into a wartime agreement with all truly anti-Japanese military forces, but they will strike the gravest blows at all armies and armed groups which encroach upon the soviet areas, to the point of completely destroying them! We call upon our brothers among the fighters of the White armed units and oppose your treasonous officers, turn the guns around, join up with the Red Army to oppose the bandit invasion of the Japanese imperialists and drive them out of China!

Masses of all China! Our brother fighters in the White armies! The Provisional Soviet Central Government calls upon you to arise and wage an armed national revolutionary war to oppose Japanese imperialism and the traitorous KMT rule! Oppose the attacks on the Chinese Worker-Peasant Red Army and soviet areas! Support our call to struggle and oppose your traitorous officers, arise on your own account and link up with the Worker-Peasant Red Army to oppose Japanese imperialism's bandit invasion! Oppose the attacking of the Soviet areas with even a single soldier, a single rifle, a single shell! Demand that all the military force of the entire country be dispatched to North China to oppose the attack of Japanese imperialism! Spread the national revolutionary war and opposition to Japan and all imperialism, and overthrow the imperialists' running dogs, the KMT!

Chairman of the Provisional Chinese Soviet Central Government Mao Tse-tung
Vice Chairmen Hsiang Ying, Chang Kuo-tao

3 March 1933
"Red China," No 59, 9 March 1933