(1) The overall policy of the Central Committee will be sent separately. (2) Food
is being collected in the border areas. (3) Under present conditions it is very
difficult to expand munitions factories. The construction of a third acid factory
is under negotiation.¹ (4) Chiang's plan is to defeat our forces one by one, attacking the New Fourth Army first and then the Eighth Route Army. No attack is
likely for now in the northwest, and we have no reason to rouse Hu Zongnan's
attention, so no new military deployments shall be made in the border areas. (5)
In North China, please follow the steps prescribed in our original plan, except
that the urgency is to be increased. (6) In Central China we plan to carry on
protracted guerrilla warfare, on the principle that it is to our advantage and to the
disadvantage of the anti-Communist forces. (7) By declaring the New Fourth
Army rebels and putting Ye Ting on trial, Chiang Kaishek seems to have made up
his mind to break with our Party. The background influence seems to be mostly
from Germany and Japan. We have decided to take the necessary political, military, and organizational measures. Politically, we shall fully expose Chiang's
scheme (though making no mention of his name for the time being). Refer to the
editorial and the statement made by the spokesman of the Chinese Communist
Party in *Xin Zhonghua bao* on this. Only a defensive posture will continue to be
taken so as to mobilize the masses of the people under the slogan of persisting in
the war against Japan and opposing the civil war. Militarily, we shall first fight
defensive warfare and fight our way, when necessary, to Gansu and Sichuan.
Organizationally, we plan to make preparations to remove our various administrative offices.

Our source for this text is *Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan*, Vol. 6, p. 289, where it is reproduced
from *Wannan shibian*.
1. This sentence is not altogether clear, but it apparently refers to the preparation of acids
to be used in making explosives.