893.00/11–3049: Telegram
The Consul General at Peiping (Clubb) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 30—4:01 a. m.]
2129. Following text is translation November 29 statement Chou En-lai:
“The People’s Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China, which is presently swiftly continuing to wipe out the remnant reactionary bandit forces of the Kuomintang, under conditions where it retreated vast areas of our south and southwest China, is on this day pressing near the southwest border of our country. The Kuomintang reactionary bandit horde headed by Chiang Kai-shek, Li Tsung-jen, [Page 616] Pai Chung-hsi and Yu Han-mou is turning their hopes toward Annam and other places adjoining the frontiers of China, planning to make these places an asylum for their battered troops and officers and preparing to turn them into bases for staging a comeback at an opportune moment. In view of this, I, on behalf of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China, solemnly point out to the Government of France and the governments of countries adjoining the frontiers of China that the thorough wiping out of all reactionary armed forces of the Kuomintang is the unshakeable [resolve?] of our government. No matter where the defeated Kuomintang reactionary forces flee, the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China reserves the right to take up this matter, and the government of any country which gives shelter [and aid] to the Kuomintang reactionary armed forces must take responsibility in this regard and moreover must accept all consequences arising therefrom.”
Sent Department 2129, Nanking 1190, Shanghai 1239, to Tientsin by mail.