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REPORT TO THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS
rialism and the Kuomintang ended in glaring failure. The victories
of the Soviet and Red Armies have further confirmed the belief of
the country-wide masses that the Soviet and Red Armies alone are
fighting for the national independence and freedom, and that they
are the sole forces for the salvation of China.
The fourth offensive of the enemy began right after the Kuomintang
had surrendered Manchuria to the Japanese and concluded
the Shanghai Truce Agreement of May 5, 1932. The traitorous Kuomintang
did not mobilize a single soldier to fight the Japanese aggression.
On the contrary, despite the fact that the Soviet and Red
Armies have more than once proposed to conclude an anti-Japanese
military agreement with any anti-Japanese troops, the Kuomintang,
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led by Chiang Kai-shek, chief of all traitors, concentrated hundreds
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of thousands of troops to attack the Hupeh-Honan-Anhui and Hunan-
Hupeh West Soviet districts and forced the Red Armies to withdraw
from the cordon they formed around the district of Wu-Han. On our
side, because of some tactical mistakes, coupled with our reluctance
to have a direct clash with a force of the enemy which was overwhelmingly
stronger than ours, the Fourth Red Army Corps was
obliged to withdraw from the Hupeh-Honan-Anhui Soviet district
and began the famous expedition to Szechuen where a new and big
Soviet base embracing Tungkiang, Bachun, Nanking, Hsunhan and
Suiting has been created. NOT During FOR the expedition, the Fourth Red
Army corps had widely disseminated seeds of the Soviet in the comparatively
revolutionary backward zones of the Northwest where
broad revolutionary COMMERCIAL
struggle of the masses have been brought up to
develop. In not more than one year, the Fourth Red Army Corps has
sovietized more than ten hsien and called forth leaning of the
Szechuen toiling masses and soldiers of the White troops toward the
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Meantime the Second Red Army Corps which
evacuated from the Hung Lake Zone not only has suffered no serious
loss but also gained new success in the Szechuen-Hupeh-Hunan
frontier regions in its operation in co-ordination with the Fourth Red
Army Corps. Even in the Hung Lake zone, Red partisans are still
active. In the Hupeh-Honan-Anhui Soviet District, we did not lose
much of our base. On the contrary, we are now very successful there
in the strife to consolidate our position and to develop partisan wars
in the surrounding neighborhood.
As to the Central Soviet District (Kiangsi), it is the location of
the Central Soviet Government headquarters of the country-wide
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