Reply to Chen Yi’s Telegram[1]

(June 24, 1942)

Your telegram of the 21st[2] received. Your views are quite correct. In southern Anhui and western Zhejiang, we can only develop guerrilla warfare; our main forces should not advance southward.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram in reply to Chen Yi.
[2] Ma, i.e., the 21st.