ANOTHER CALL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY TO TAKE UP ARMS AND COMBAT IMPERIALISM

4 March Proclamation of Provisional Central Government

4 March 1933

[Text] Masses of all China!

The 75 mm cannon and great number of fighters and bombers of the Japanese imperialists are now inflicting inhumane bombardment massacres in the Jehol area! Eight Japanese imperialist divisions with the support of several hundred aircraft are now attacking and ignite from three directions! The KMT generals continue to follow their shameless policy of non-resistance and retreat step by step, giving up K'a-lu, Pe'i-p'ao and Ch'ih-feng, and have abandoned hundreds of thousands of peaceful inhabitants and fighters actively resisting Japanese imperialism to be trodden by the iron hoofs of Japanese imperialism, crushed and massacred! Masses of all China! All of Jehol has now fallen into the hands of the Japanese imperialists, and all of North China is at a life-or-death crisis. 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 Japan 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 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 wartime agreement under the simplest and most essential conditions, with all true anti-Japanese armies. But the KMT warlords and politicians have most shamelessly knelt before the imperialists and betrayed China, practicing non-resistance and surrender. (Hiatus) 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 draw up a wartime treaty with all anti-Japanese units as an expression of the Soviet Government and Worker-Peasant Red Army is weakness, but this actually expresses their own obtuseness and stupidity. The warfare of the last 2 months has taught these traitorous warlords a stern lesson. The 52nd and 59th Divisions have been entirely disarmed and their commanders and staff officers have all been captured, so that the 5th Army is a shambles. The soviet movement has gained the support of millions of 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.

The Chinese Soviet Government and the Worker-Peasant Red Army are preparing to wage war directly against the troops of the Japanese imperialists and to drive them out of China. Accordingly we must disarm all reactionary armies 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 armies.

As to all armies and armed groups invading the soviet areas, we call upon our brothers among the fighters of the White armies to rise 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, to 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, and demand that all the military forces 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

9 March at Jui-chin, Kiangsi
"'Soviet China' Soviet Union Foreign Workers Publishing House (Moscow)