Principles for Dealing with Various
Factions of the Guomindang Army
(July 15, 1943)
To the Shandong Branch Bureau and also for the information of the Northern
Bureau:
We received your telegram of July 4.
1. We agree with your approach in dealing with Yu Xuezhong1 and Li
Xianzhou.2
2. We must resolutely unite with those who are friendly to us. Toward those
who are diehards but have not yet attacked us, we should try to make them
maintain neutrality. Toward those who have attacked us, we must resolutely
fight back. These are the principles you should apply in dealing with the various
factions of the Guomindang army. But you should inform the Central Committee
by telegraph about all the details of how the diehard elements attack and oppress
us in engagements and battles so that we can inform the Guomindang Central
Committee and prevent their excuses and false accusations.
Central Committee Secretariat
Notes
the Southern Shandong Guerrilla War Zone.

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Our source for this text is Zhonggong zhongyang wenxian yanjiushi, ed., Wenxian he yanjiu, 1985 huibian
ben, pp. 174–75.

1. Yu Xuezhong (1890–1964) was at this time governor of Shandong Province and commander-in-chief of


2. Li Xianzhou (1894–1988) was at this time commander-in-chief of the Guomindang’s Twenty-eighth
Army Group.