Inscription for the *Nanguo Daily*[1]

(March 18, 1938)

Overseas compatriots in Malaya, use every ounce of strength to aid the motherland and struggle for the independence and liberation of the Chinese nation.

Nanguo Daily

Mao Zedong

March 18, the 27th year [of the Republic]

[1] This is an inscription written by Mao Zedong for the *Nanguo Daily*, an influential newspaper in Southeast Asia, when he received a delegation of Southeast Asian overseas Chinese journalists.