REFUTING HO YING-CH'IN
9 July 1941
[Text] HSIN-HUA NEWS AGENCY, Yenan, 9 July--In his article on the 4th year
of the resistance war published by the CENTRAL PRESS AGENCY, Ho Ying-ch'in
still claimed: "The New 4th Army disobeyed orders, refused to move and intended to sabotage the resistance war situation and destroy the anti-
Japanese front; it was therefore ordered to be disbanded." The spokesman
of the Revolutionary Military Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist
Party Central Committee stated:

Ho Ying-ch'in, the hidden leader of the pro-Japanese faction, was the
ringleader in the incident of disbanding the New 4th Army and the one whom
the Chinese Communist Party Central once requested the National Government
to punish. The whole world knows that the New 4th Army consisted of loyal
and courageous troops in the resistance war before the southern Anhwei incident and that its 100,000 men continued to fight the enemy north and south
of the Yangtze after the southern Anhwei incident. After the southern Anhwei
incident occurred was precisely because army commander Yeh T'ing and deputy
commander Hsiang Ying followed orders to move north and encountered an
ambush in the Mao-lin area. Therefore, the action of 13 January to wipe
out the southern Anhwei troops of the New 4th Army and the order of the
Military Commission of 17 January to disband the said army were both reactionary and counterrevolutionary measures confounding the right and wrong
and contrary to the interest of the resistance war. They will not escape
the censure of public opinion in generations to come. A folk ballad of
southern Anhwei states: "Military discipline, military discipline--eliminate
the dissenters; orders, orders--Japan is pleased." It truly hits the nail
on the head. At the beginning of the 5th year of the resistance war, all
soldiers and civilians in the nation demand a stronger national unity,
and Committee Chairman Chiang also declared the necessity of "loyal and
sincere unity." Treacherous and shameless, Ho Ying-ch'in had the audacity
to utter such defamations, which are detrimental to unity and beneficial
to the Japanese bandits. He is truly as heartless as Ch'en Shu-pao! When
it comes to "sabotaging the resistance war situation and destroying the
anti-Japanese front," the whole country knows that it is none other than
the pro-Japanese Ho Ying-ch'in. With Ch'in Kuai in power, Yueh Fei had

to die. With Ho Ying-ch'in inside the resist-Japan front, the loyal and
courageous New 4th Army had to be disbanded. If he continues to usurp
an important position, the resistance war situation and the resist-Japan
front will be destroyed. Therefore, we eagerly hope that the National
Government will take the resistance war standpoint, dismiss Ho Ying-ch'in,
and promptly solve the New 4th Army issue in order to promote unity and
the resistance war. We hope and pray for it.

° CHIEH-FANG JIH-PAO, 10 July 1941