Telegram to Zuo Quan and Others[1]

(October 11, 1936)

The establishment of a united front with the Gelaohui is aimed at winning over its outstanding elements and expanding mass participation in the resistance against Japan, as well as utilizing it to carry out work in the White areas and the White army; it is not for the purpose of organizing groups and armed forces for the Gelaohui within the Soviet areas, thereby expanding and strengthening its influence and power inside the Soviet areas and creating difficulties in our own work.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram sent by Mao Zedong and Luo Fu (Zhang Wentian) to Zuo Quan, Nie Rongzhen, Liu Xiao, Li Fuchun, Li Weihan, and Song Shilun.