Collecting Information About the Deeds of
National Heroes in the Eighth Route Army and
the New Fourth Army, and Disseminating
Propaganda About Them¹
(March 18, 1939)

Many national heroes have emerged during the War of Resistance from among the
officers and soldiers of our Eighth Route Army and our New Fourth Army. Praising these heroes and their heroic deeds has important significance with regard to
both outside propaganda and internal education. The various political organs should
pay attention to collecting the deeds of such heroes, and, in addition to publishing
them in various army newspapers, to selecting the most important ones to inform
us by telegram and broadcast them. From now on, all military and political publications will include a special column on War of Resistance heroes of the Eighth
Route Army and the New Fourth Army, so it is hoped that political departments at
all levels will supply these materials.

Our source for this text is Mao Zedong xinwen gongzuo wenxuan, p. 43, where it is reproduced from a copy in the Central Archives.
1. This telegram was addressed by Mao Zedong, Wang Jiaxiang, Tan Zheng, and Xiao
Jingguang to the political organs of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. Xiao
Jingguang (1903-1989), a native of Hunan, was at this time commander of the rear echelon
of the Eighth Route Army.
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