Main Conditions for Negotiations with Han Deqin and Others[1]

(October 14, 1940)

The main conditions for negotiations with Han Deqin and others should be presented more concretely and forwarded to the Kuomintang Central Committee and Gu Zhutong with the request that orders be issued: 1) to halt the offensive from Anhui toward eastern Anhui; 2) to lift the encirclement of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui; and 3) to lift the encirclement of the New Fourth Army in southern Jiangsu.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram from Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and Wang Jiaxiang to Chen Yi and others concerning the conditions for negotiations with the Kuomintang's Han Deqin forces.