Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270
General Chou
En-lai62
to General Marshall
[Chungking,] January 13, 1945 [1946].
Dear General: I beg to call your attention to
the letter which I wrote to General Chang Chun63 this morning referring to the hostilities actions
taken by government troops in Jehol and East Hopei since the signing of
the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement. You will find enclosed a copy of
this letter. As you have been expressing a deep concern over the state
of civil strife in China, and the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement was
largely brought about through your kind efforts, I trust you will have a
deep interest to see that this agreement is not violated. Any influence
you may exercise to get the matter promptly straightened out will be
highly appreciated.
Thanking you for your kind assistance and cooperation in this matter, I
remain
Very sincerely yours,
[Signature in Chinese]
(
Chou
En-lai
)
[Enclosure]
General Chou
En-lai to General Chang
Chun
[Chungking,] January 13, 1945 [1946].
Dear General Chang: Urgent telegrams just
reached me from Jehol and East Hopei via Yenan saying that the
fiftysecond Army pushing into Jehol had occupied on the eve of
January tenth town capital Lingyuan, and in its continued drive
occupied on January eleventh Weichangtze, a village on the midway of
Lingyuan and Ping-chuan. A second unit of the government troops
after previous occupation of Chianping captured on January eleventh
village Taiping-chuang, due southeast of Chihfeng. The
aforementioned two units are now pushing toward town capitals
Pinchuan and Chihfeng. In addition to that the Twentysecond Division
and two divisions of the Ninetysecond Army were still marching
toward Kupeikou on the twelfth instant, and most heavy fighting was
taking place there. As
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regards the Tangshan area, one division of the Ninetyfourth Army is
still advancing toward Fengyun, and fought ferociously at the
Changchuang village due southeast of Fengyun.
That such most regrettable circumstances should have occurred was
either because the Peiping Generalissimo’s Headquarters and the
headquarters of General Tu Li-ming are purposely delaying the
further transmission of the Cessation of Hostilities Order, or
because some high-ranking officers at the front are designing at
capturing certain advantageous positions,—may be even Chihfeng—and
consequently violating the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement. It is
my most earnest desire that you will kindly transmit the
aforementioned matters to the Generalissimo, and request him to
order by the speediest means all troops in Jehol and East Hopei to
immediately cease attack and to evacuate places they had occupied
after the promulgation of the Cessation of Hostilities Order on the
tenth instant.
Thanking you for your cooperation in this matter and awaiting your
prompt reply, I remain
Sincerely yours,
