Inscription for *Red Star* Newspaper[1]

(August 1, 1934)

The enemy has already launched a large-scale offensive against our basic Soviet area. We must defeat this enemy at all costs. We must use all steadfastness, tenacity, and endurance to defeat this enemy. By doing so, we will certainly be able to defeat this enemy in the end. The final victory will be ours. Long live the heroic and struggling Red Army!

[1] *Red Star* newspaper was the earliest organ newspaper of the Military Commission of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, published by the General Political Department of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. It was first published in December 1931 in the Central Revolutionary Base Area in Ruijin, Jiangxi, and was edited at that time by Deng Xiaoping. Before the Red Army's Long March, *Red Star* published a total of 80 issues. From July 1934 until its cessation in August 1935, there were 3 issues reporting on preparations for the Long March before the Long March began, and during the Long March, *Red Star* published a total of 28 special issues on the Long March, making a total of 31 issues.