Mao sends instructions to halt the shelling of Jinmen Island on even-numbered days, but continue it on odd-numbered days.
October 6, 1958
Letter, Mao Zedong to Huang Kecheng and Peng Dehuai
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Peng [Dehuai] and Huang [Kecheng]:
Please pass on to Han [Xianchu] and Ye [Fei]:
Yesterday I said not to issue any public statement, and to wait and see for two days. Later [I] thought about this again, and considered it more appropriate to issue a statement first. This is the reason for [me to write] the “Message to the Compatriots in Taiwan.” This statement is about to be issued, please instruct the Fujian Front radio station to broadcast it repeatedly.
Mao Zedong
2:00 A.M., 6 October
Send this to [Huang] Kecheng for handling immediately.
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Mao decides to broadcast a statement to Taiwan about the shelling of Jinmen Island.
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Zhonggong zhongyang wenxian yanjiushi, ed., Jianguo yilai Mao Zedong wengao (Mao Zedong’s Manuscripts since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China), vol. 7 (Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 1992), 437.
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