• With regard to the destruction of confidential documents, you should anticipate that special difficulties may arise during movement—such as the risk of attack or loss—and treat the situation with the utmost seriousness. On this basis, in addition to exhausting every possible means to overcome these challenges, all confidential documents must be completely destroyed, leaving not a single scrap of paper behind. Daily incoming and outgoing correspondence is to be reviewed and destroyed immediately upon receipt. The remaining documents are to be carried at all times by the most trustworthy comrade, and procedures for handling them in case of danger should be pre-arranged. This directive applies not only to the Military Headquarters but is to be issued as a general order to the entire Anhui–South China Army: absolutely no confidential documents, not even a single sheet or a single word, are to be retained. This is of paramount importance. o()U