Order on the Southern Anhui Incident

#PUBLICATION NOTE

This edition of Order on the Southern Anhui Incident has been prepared and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the following editions:

  • Order and Statement on the Southern Anhui Incident, in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, First English Edition, Vol. 2, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1965.
  • Order and Statement of the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on the Southern Anhui Incident, First English Edition, Vol. 7, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk and London, 2005.

#INTRODUCTION NOTE

This is an order drafted by Comrade Mao Zedong for the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Yan'an, Shaanxi, China on the 20th of January, 1941. It was first published in a documentary collection in 1942.

#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!

#ORDER ON THE SOUTHERN ANHUI INCIDENT

#ORDER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COMMISSION OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

#Mao Zedong
#20th of January, 1941

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The New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army has won fame both at home and abroad by its distinguished service in the War of Resistance. Commander Ye Ting has an outstanding record in leading the army against the enemy. Recently, however, while it was moving northward in accordance with instructions, this army was treacherously attacked by the pro-Japanese clique, and Commander Ye, wounded and exhausted in the fighting, was thrown into jail. Informed of the whole course of the Southern Anhui Incident by telegrams from Chen Yi, the Commander of the First Detachment of the army, and Zhang Yunyi, the army's Chief of Staff, the Commission expresses its great wrath and its deep solicitude for our comrades. In addition to the adoption of measures to deal with the towering crime of the pro-Japanese clique in sabotaging the War of Resistance, attacking the people's armed forces, and launching civil war, the Commission hereby appoints Chen Yi as Acting Commander of the New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Zhang Yunyi as Deputy Commander, Liu Shaoqi as Political Commissar, Lai Chuanzhu as Chief of Staff, and Deng Zihui as Director of the Political Department. Acting Commander Chen Yi and his associates are hereby instructed to devote their efforts to strengthening the army, reinforcing unity within its ranks, ensuring good relations with the people, carrying out the «Three People's Principles», adhering to the Testament of Dr. Sun Yixian, and consolidating and expanding the Anti-Japanese National United Front in the struggle to defend our people and our country, to carry the War of Resistance forward to the end, and to guard against attacks by the pro-Japanese clique. It is so ordered.