Note on a News Draft
(October 24, 1949)

Qiao Mu [1]:

News items of this kind [2] should not be published nationwide, nor should they be broadcast on the radio stations in Xi’an and Lanzhou; they may only be published in local newspapers in places like Hami. Also, please draft a telegram to inform Peng and Gan. [3]

Mao Zedong
October 24

[1] Qiao Mu, namely Hu Qiaomu, then Director of the General News Administration of the Central People’s Government.
[2] Refers to the submitted draft of a Xinhua News Agency dispatch, dated October 24, 1949, regarding the arrest of reactionary elements among the former Kuomintang government forces by the People’s Liberation Army entering Xinjiang.
[3] Peng refers to Peng Dehuai, then Commander and Political Commissar of the First Field Army of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Gan refers to Gan Siqi, then Director of the Political Department of the First Field Army of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.