OPEN CABLE MESSAGE AGAINST THE TREASONABLE DARIEN CONFERENCE RECENTLY HELD

July 1933

[Text] Revolutionary people of the whole country!

A week ago, the landlord-bourgeoisie Kuomintang government, the eternally faithful running dog of imperialism, in a more sinister and shameless manner than ever before, held a conference in Darien. On the afternoon of 2 July, a new agreement was concluded at the Japanese Gendarme headquarters in Darien. This agreement contains more concrete and more shameless terms than the north China truce Agreement signed on 30 May!

Amid the din of congratulations from the Deputy Commander of the imperialist Japanese Kwantung Army and near the end of the banquet celebrating their accomplishment of treason, Lei Shou-yun and company, the traitor representative of the Kuomintang government, raised their champagne glasses and shook hands with the representatives of Manchukuo which the Kuomintang once seemingly called a "puppet," on the one hand greeting the establishment of their newborn ally and on the other hand putting their final signatures on the irrevocable agreement by which they sold out the national interests of China. The main contents of this new treasonable agreement are: (1) the Kuomintang government formally recognize Manchukuo and nominally regroup and reorganize the contingents of Manchukuo troops stationed along the Luanchow-Linyu area; (2) Japan is allowed to establish surveillance troops in such counties as Miyun and Luan-chow in North China; and (3) the Lu-yu section of Peking-Liaonong Railway is placed under joint control.

Under the above agreement the Kuomintang has in fact not only formally recognized Manchukuo but even more shamelessly concluded an alliance with that puppet state, thereby swearing allegiance to their common master, imperialist Japan. Recent facts tell us that the Kuomintang government has yielded to the demand of Manchukuo by permitting within a short time the resumption of postal remittances to and from Manchukuo and altering the existing arrangement of routing Europe-bound mail in transit through Vladivostok and Siberia. These hard facts give lie to the Kuomintang allegation before the people that Manchukuo is a so-called "puppet." This is a completely shameless deceptive propaganda. As a matter of fact, the Kuomintang itself is a loyal puppet of Japanese imperialism; they and Manchukuo are both brothers of running dogs.

The Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic, representing the people of the whole country, is resolutely against the shameless treasonable agreement concluded by the Kuomintang at the Darien Conference and absolutely denies in toto the terms of this treasonable agreement. It calls on the workers, peasants, soldiers, and all revolutionaries of the whole nation to rise in unity against the recent treasonable Darien Conference and urges them to engage in persistent revolutionary struggle by going on strikes, closing shops, not attending classes, and abandoning sentry posts, and organize themselves into holding mass demonstrations and forming armed units in order to oppose and prevent the execution of the Darien agreement. The people of the whole country must clearly recognize that under the puppet alliance between the Kuomintang and Manchukuo the Japanese imperialist robbers will inevitably expand their acts of aggression on an even larger scale by actively carrying out attacks against Anhua and Daluwan and seizing the coastal provinces in southeast China with a view to participating with international imperialism in the joint dismemberment of China! At the same time the Japanese robbers, the oriental gendarmes of International imperialism, will step up their recent frenzied acts of provocation against the Soviet Union and will certainly embark upon military adventures of open armed intervention against the Soviet Union the fraternal ally of the Chinese people!

Revolutionary people of the whole country!

Only the Soviets can save China! Only the anti-Japanese Red Army which is accelerating the pace of smashing the fourth "encirclement and suppression" campaign of the imperialist-Kuomintang is the arm of the revolutionary people of the whole country! With a view to striving for the national independence and liberation as well as the territorial integrity of China, the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic calls on the revolutionary people of the whole country and the revolutionary soldiers in the White army to unite under the Soviet banner and launch their revolutionary national war, knock down the imperialist-Kuomintang and bury them in the grave of history!

Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Provisional Central
Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic

Hsiang Ying, Chang Kuo-t'ao, Vice Chairmen

"Red China," No 95, 23 July 1933

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