EDITORIAL--CHAIRMAN MAO'S TALKS
15 October 1936
[Text] Soviet Central Government Chairman Comrade Mao Tse-tung today
publishes his talks: "The Soviet Central Government and the People's
Red Army Military Commission have issued an order.
"(1) All Red Army units will cease any attack of the National Revolutionary Army.
"(2) They are only permitted to take the necessary measures of selfdefense when attacked.
"(3) All the personnel and weaponry of the National Revolutionary Army
captured by us when it attacked us will be returned when the said army
starts to resist Japan. Those who wish to join the Red Army may do so.
"(4) There may be no interference when the National Revolutionary Army
is being shifted to resist-Japan positions, and all possible aid must be
rendered. We have decided to again earnestly request all units of the
National Revolutionary Army and the Nanking Government to stop the civil
war against us and resist Japan together. The request is now being
drafted. As currently the situation of Chahar, Suiyuan, and Shansi is
critical to the extreme, we eagerly hope to cooperate with the Nanking
Government in order to reach the goal of aiding Suiyuan and resisting
Japan, and averting perdition and seeking survival. If the Nanking
Government feels a sincere concern over the national calamity, stops the
civil war, and sends troops to resist Japan, the Soviet wishes to aid it
with its full power, and it is also willing to make the main force of the
Red Army in the entire nation serve as the vanguard for a decisive battle
against the Japanese bandits."
The people here find Comrade Mao Tse-tung's talks published today unsurpassable in earnestness and sincerity. Japanese imperialism and the spies
are creating rumors every day, in an attempt to prove that the Soviet Red
Army's proposal for a resist-Japan united front is merely a means to

overthrow the Kuomintang. Chairman Mao's words today have quashed by
one stroke such rumors and slander. We know that his words will clear
up the doubts in the minds of the patriotic elements in the Kuomintang
and the National Revolutionary Army, because the Red Army has declared,
through Chairman Mao, that it has no intention to capture the personnel
and weaponry of any unit of the National Revolutionary Army, nor to
eliminate its troops or overthrow the Kuomintang Nanking Government.
The goal of the Soviet Government is to unite China by peaceful means,
form a democratic republic of China, and expel Japanese imperialism from
the country. Such advocation has now been made extremely clear.

* "Mao Tse-tung's Talks on Stopping the Civil War and Resisting Japan"
(mimeographed)

* "Red China," No 307, 22 October 1936

* ""Important Talks on Stopping the Civil War and Resisting Japan,' Mao
Tse-tung on the Sino-Japanese War," Shensi People's Publishing House,
October 1937