Telegram of Encouragement from
Comrade Mao Zedong in Reply to the
Shandong Provisional Representative
Assembly
(September 1, 1943)
(New China News Agency, Special Report from central Shandong) The Shandong Provisional
Representative Assembly sent a message of greetings a few days ago to the Chinese Communist Party
Central Committee and Comrade Mao Zedong, and in September Comrade Mao Zedong specially sent
back a telegram to extend his congratulations. The following is the original telegram:
Gentlemen of the Shandong Province Provisional Representative Assembly:
I received your telegram with great respect. Your honorable assembly persists
behind enemy lines and struggles arduously without yielding. You represent the
sublime character of our people and set a good example for the entire nation. All
people of the nation hold you in high regard. At the moment when some
“pacifists,” defeatists, and capitulationists within the Chinese resistance camp
attempt to reach a compromise with the enemy and create civil war, and when
the nation is faced with a serious crisis, we continue to hope that your honorable
assembly and all the patriotic military forces and people behind enemy lines will
unite together, work ceaselessly, and struggle to persist in unity and progress in
the War of Resistance as well as to oppose capitulation, division, and
retrogression. All patriotic compatriots are willing to assist you. The world
situation at present is extremely unfavorable for the German, Italian, and
Japanese Fascist bandits and those shameless, reactionary Chinese capitulationists
who have sold out and are preparing to sell out our people. The iron fist of the

Soviet Red Army will soon break the backbone of Hitler, the beast. The patriotic
soldiers and civilians of the British and American allies are also working
arduously for the final defeat of the Fascists. The great goal of the Chinese people
to defeat Japanese imperialism and to win freedom and liberation is coming
closer each day.
Mao Zedong
Note
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong ji, Vol. 9, p. 51, where it is reproduced from the September 15,
1943, issue of Jiefang ribao.