Public Notice Inviting Enrollment in the
Northwest Anti-Japanese Red Army University
of the Chinese Soviet People’s Republic

(February 1936)

Purpose

At present the Japanese imperialists and the chieftain of the traitors who are
selling out the country, Chiang Kaishek, are exerting their utmost efforts to turn
China completely into a Japanese colony, and the Chinese nation is faced with
the imminent danger of the destruction of the state and the extinction of the race.
To keep pace with the development of the national revolutionary war against
Japan and supply leaders to the various anti-Japanese battlefronts, this school has
decided to recruit revolutionary youths and noble-minded patriots from all over
to study here so as to train and develop on a regular basis large numbers of
military and political cadres for the national resistance against Japan, to lead the
national revolutionary war, overthrow Japanese imperialism, recover lost territory, and win independence, freedom, and complete emancipation for the Chi-nese nation.

Subjects and Enrollments

This school has four sections:
1. Military Command Section The aim is to train battalion and regimental
commanders and other military officers, with an enrollment of a thousand.
2. Political Work Section The aim is to train political cadres at the regimental and division levels, with an enrollment of 1,200.
3. Guerrilla Warfare Section The aim is to train military and political cadres
at all levels for anti-Japanese guerrilla and anti-Japanese volunteer troops, with
an enrollment of 300.
4. Special Section The aim is to train military commanders for special arms
such as engineer troops, mounted troops, artillery troops, and so on. The enrollment for each section is 300.
Entrance qualifications and treatment for them are the same as for the regular
sections.
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We have translated this document from Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 4, pp. 267–69, where
it is taken from Jiuguo shibao, no. 83 (June 25, 1936).