When [Ye] Xiyi¹ meets Gu, please ask that Gu send a telegram to Chiang [Kaishek]
to stop the armies of Tang Enbo and Tan Lianfang from advancing eastward. Otherwise this will lead to hostilities, for which the other side will be responsible. Two
divisions of Tan's army have already reached Shangcheng and Gushi [in southeastern Henan], and Tan and all of his division commanders have gathered in
Lihuang in preparation for an attack on eastern Anhui. Nine divisions of Tang's
army at Nanyang are planning to move eastward, and the situation is very tense.
Please question Gu as to the motivation for, on the one hand, talking peace in
northern Jiangsu and in southern Anhui ordering us to move northward while, on
the other hand, deploying a large army of 200,000 to advance eastward. Does this
mean that the other side is already preparing to effect a split? During the negotiations Xiyi should place this overall situation in the number one position. All the
rest are secondary questions.