Telegram to Zhu De and Others on the Peaceful Resolution of the Jinxi Incident[1]

(January 27, 1940)

Zhu, Peng, Yang, He, Guan, Nie, Peng[2]:

(A) Bo Yibo, Rong Zihe, Xu Fanting, Lei Renmin[3], Song Shaowen, Zhang Wen’ang, Han Jun, and the Sacrifice League and Youth for National Salvation in various localities should continue to send telegrams without interruption to Yan, Liang, Yang, bitterly denouncing the crimes of Wang, Chen, Sun, Zhao[4] and their four men in attacking the New Army, sabotaging the Sacrifice League, and brutally killing anti-Japanese personnel, and express willingness to peacefully resolve internal problems in Shanxi, so as to avoid being exploited by the enemy, and willingness to unite under Yan’s leadership to resist Japan, with absolutely no other demands, thereby demonstrating the utmost forbearance and magnanimity. (B) Here, in the name of Xiao Jinguang, a proposal for mediation has been made to Yan, pointing out clearly that the Chen Detachment has been attacked, the Eighth Route Army’s station line in the Lüliang Mountains has been wiped out, wounded soldiers of the Eighth Route Army have been brutally killed, and over seventy Eighth Route Army personnel in seven counties of southeastern Shanxi have been brutally killed, causing deep unease in the Eighth Route Army; however, the Eighth Route Army is willing to continue uniting under Yan’s leadership to resist Japan, and if Yan is willing to negotiate, it is prepared to send personnel to talk.

Mao, Wang

27th

[1] The original document bears no year or month; the date here is determined based on content.
[2] Full names: Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Yang Shangkun, He Long, Guan Xiangying, Nie Rongzhen, Peng Zhen.
[3] Lei Renmin, should be Lei Renmin.
[4] Full names: Yan Xishan, Liang Huazhi, Yang Aiyuan, Wang Jingguo, Chen Changjie, Sun Chu, Zhao Chengshou.

From late 1939 to early 1940, the Kuomintang launched military attacks on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and other anti-Japanese base areas, whipping up an anti-communist upsurge. The picture shows the manuscript of the telegram from Mao Zedong and Wang Jiaxiang to Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, and others on the peaceful resolution of the Jinxi Incident.