Telegram of Condolence from Mao Zedong and
Zhu De to the Memorial Meeting in Suiyuan
(March 13, 1937)

To General Fu Zuoyi and General Zhao Chengshou in Sui[yuan], and for the
perusal of the memorial meeting in honor of the officers and men killed in battle:

When the puppet troops, driven forward by the Japanese bandits, invaded eastern
Suiyuan, you gentlemen led all the forces under your command in defending our
territory, resisting foreign aggression, and heading off repeated enemy attacks,
thereby washing away some of the great shame and humiliation to which our
nation has been subjected. The officers and men were heroically valiant in fighting the enemy in pursuit of justice and righteousness, and their glorious spirit is
sure to be emulated for generations to come and to inspire the whole nation.
Zedong and the rest of us hereby specially send to you gentlemen for your
perusal this telegram, to express our deep mourning over our nation's dead.

Mao Zedong and Zhu De
bow to you in respect