Proclamation by the Central Government of the Chinese Soviet People's Republic and the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Red Army

Over the four years since Japanese imperialism invaded China, our country has lost eight million square li of its territory. After the four provinces in the Northeast were lost, the five provinces of North China have also ceased to exist except in name. Now Japanese imperialism has set up espionage agencies in Ningxia and the Alashan Banner, ¹ and demanded that the Guomindang's Nanjing government carry out Hirota's Three Principles and give them the five provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, and Xinjiang. The bloody hands of Japanese imperialism have now extended their grip to our compatriots in the five northwestern provinces!