The United Front Work Situation Regarding the Red Army’s Cooperation with the Kuomintang’s Northeastern Army and the 17th Route Army in Resisting Japan[1]

(June 6, 1936)

The united front work has advanced further, and various preparations are moving toward concretization.

Fifty thousand Japanese troops have entered Beiping, causing great shock among the people, and there is a tendency toward division within the Hebei-Chahar Political Council.

The anti-Chiang movement is showing a developing situation, with rumors of Guangdong and Guangxi declaring independence; Liu Xiang and He Jian both appear to be unstable.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram from Mao Zedong to Peng Dehuai reporting on the united front work situation regarding the Red Army’s cooperation with the Kuomintang’s Northeastern Army and the 17th Route Army in resisting Japan.