(April 1936)

In order to carry out and respond to the call by the Party Central Committee and
the Central Soviet Government to strive for rapidly engaging in direct war
against Japan, this commission has decided to hold a general review of Red
Guards and Young Pioneers of the whole Soviet Area on "May Day" this year in
the middle of the war, so as to mobilize the anti-Japanese people's military
forces throughout the soviet areas, especially the anti-Japanese People's Red
Guards and Young Pioneers in the soviet areas, into active participation in the
national revolutionary war against Japan and against the traitors, thereby accomplishing the task of the Anti-Japanese Vanguard Army:
1. It is hereby ordered that heads of military affairs departments at all levels
must ensure that, working at a rapid wartime pace, their respective plans of
reorganizing and expanding the Red Guards and Young Pioneers are fully completed by the "May Day" celebration.
2. Immediately intensify wartime mobilization among the masses by explaining the significance of the "May Day" general review. Raise the political morale
of the Red Guards and Young Pioneers; call on the masses to join the Red Army
enthusiastically, and on the Red Guards and Young Pioneers to prepare actively
for participation in the great "May Day" general review.
3. All Red Guards and Young Pioneers will undergo review by district units.
The Red Guards and Young Pioneers must gather all together in the district on
the afternoon of April 30, bringing with them their own food (for two days) and
weapons. It must be ensured that no member of the Red Guards or Young
Pioneers fails to attend and participate in the general review or fails to bring food
and weapons, and so on.
4. The chairman of the district soviet has been designated as leader of the

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This document originally appeared in Hongse Zhonghua, no. 268, April 16, 1936. We
have translated it from Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 4, pp. 275–76, where it is reproduced
from that source. Several characters which the editors of Mao Zedong ji were unable to
decipher have been supplied from the reprint of Hongse Zhonghua.