1. See Mao Tse-tung:Hs�an-chi. Vol. II (first edition), Peking, 1952, p. 766. In the British edition, of which volumes I and II were first published in 1954, the abovecited passage appears on page 13; it is rendered ?additions, deletions and revisions? (This edition is hereafter cited as Mao,SW).
2. See General Sheng Shih-ts'ai: ?Red Failure in Sinkiang?. Part Two ofSinkiang: Pawn or Pivot? by Allen S. Whiting and General Sheng Shih-ts'ai (East Lansing, Michigan, 1958), p. 206.
3. Ibid., p. 245.
4. Fang was stationed at Tihua as representative of the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army (Ibid., p. 229; cf. pp. 189 f.).
5. Ibid., p. 230.