Notes
1. Hu Zongnan was at this time the effective commander of the Guomindang-led armies in northwestern
China. For more information, see above, note to the text of February 20, 1942.

Quickly Send Out the “July 7”
Declaration Materials to Every
Newspaper Office and to Personalities
in Various Circles1
(July 9, 1943)
All your telegrams have been received. Please secretly print and distribute the
“July 7” Declaration, the telegram to Chiang [Kaishek] and Hu [Zongnan] from
Commander-in-chief Zhu [De], news from the Yan’an New China News Agency
exposing secret agents who have fabricated public opinion in Xi’an, and the open
telegram sent from the Yan’an mass meeting (it was issued today) to every
newspaper office, every foreign embassy, every neutral party, and personalities in
cultural circles. Also please try by every means to mail them to various social
circles and to de facto powers in Chengdu, Guilin, and Kunming. This is of
utmost importance. The wider the range to which this kind of propaganda is
distributed, the better for us. Please make every effort to organize this and to
carry it out with great secrecy.
Notes
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong xinwen gongzuo wenxuan, p. 105.
1. This is a telegram sent to Dong Biwu of the Chongqing Office of the Eighth Route Army.

Mao’s manuscript preserved in the Central Archives.
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 2, pp. 701–2, where it is reproduced from