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I. TWO POLICIES

On

July

8,

the

day

after

the

Lukouchiao

Incident,

[

1

]

the

Central

Committee of the Communist Party of China

issued a manifesto to the

whole

nation

calling

for

a

war

of

resistance.

The

manifesto

reads

in

part:

Fellow-countrymen!

Peiping

and

Tientsin

are

in

peril!

Northern

China is in peril! The Chinese nation is in peril! A war of resistance by

the

whole

nation

is

the

only

way

out.

We

demand

immediate

and

resolute

resistance

to

the

invading

Japanese

armies

and

immediate

preparations

to

meet

all

emergencies.

From

top

to

bottom

the

whole

nation

must

at

once

abandon

any

idea

of

being

able

to

live

in

submissive

peace

with

the

Japanese

aggressors.

Fellow- countrymen!

We should acclaim and support the heroic resistance of Feng Chih-an's

troops.

We

should

acclaim

and

support

the

declaration

of

the

local

authorities of northern China that they will defend the homeland to the

death.

We

demand

that

General

Sung

Cheh-yuan

immediately

mobilize the entire 29

th

Army

[

2

]

and send it into action at the front. Of

the

Central

Government

in

Nanking

we

demand

the

following:

Give

effective

aid

to

the

29th

Army.

Immediately

lift

the

ban

on

patriotic

movements among the masses and let the people give full play to their

enthusiasm

for

armed

resistance.

Immediately

mobilize

all

the

country's

land,

sea and air

forces

for action.

Immediately

weed out all

the hidden traitors and Japanese agents in China and so consolidate our

rear.

We

call

on

the

people

of

the

whole

country

to

throw

all

their

strength

behind

the

sacred

war

of

self- defence

against

Japan.

Our

slogans are:

Armed defence of Peiping, Tientsin and

northern China !

Defend our

homeland

to the

last drop of our blood ! Let the people of

the

whole

country,

the

government,

and

the

armed

forces

unite

and

build

up the national

united

front as our solid

Great Wall of resistance

to Japanese aggression!

Let the Kuomintang and the Communist Party

closely

co- operate

and

resist

the

new

attacks

of

the

Japanese

aggressors! Drive the Japanese aggressors out of China !

This is a declaration of policy.

On

July

17,

Mr.

Chiang

Kai-shek

made

a

statement

at

Lushan.

Setting out as

it did a policy of preparing

for a war of resistance, the

statement

was

the

Kuomintang's

first

correct

declaration

on

foreign

affairs

for

many

years

and

it

has

consequently

been

welcomed

by

all

our

countrymen

as

well

as

by

ourselves.

The

statement

listed

four

conditions for the settlement of the Lukouchiao Incident

:

(1)

Any

settlement

must

not

infringe

China's

sovereignty

and

territorial

integrity;

(2)

there

must

be

no

unlawful

change

in

the

administrative structure of Hopei and Chahar Provinces; (3) there must

be

no

dismissal

and

replacement,

at

the

demand

of

others,

of

local

officials

appointed

by

the

Central

Government;

(4)

the

29th

Army

must not be confined to the area in which it is now stationed.

The concluding remarks of the statement read

:

Concerning

the

Lukouchiao

Incident,

the

government

has

decided

on a policy and a stand to which

it will always adhere. We realize that

when the

whole

nation

goes

to war, sacrifices to

the bitter end

will be

called

for, and we should not cherish the

faintest

hope of an easy way

out. Once war breaks out, every person,

young or old,

in the

north or

in

the

south,

must

take

up

the

responsibility

of

resisting

Japan

and

defending our homeland.

This, too, is a declaration of policy.