CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/10/20

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• Publication Date: October 20, 1955

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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CONTENTS
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2. COMMUNIST CHINA RENEWS BID TO NORMALIZE
RELATIONS WITH JAPAN (page 4).
3. FRENCH-SPANISH RIFT OVER MOROCCO WIDENING
(page 5).
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THE FORMOSA STRAITS
(page 6)
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2, COMMUNIST CHINA RENEWS BID TO NORMALIZE
RELATIONS WITH JAPAN
Chinese Communist premier Chou
En-lai recently told a visiting group
of local Japanese officials that China
would welcome a Japanese govern-
ment delegation to Peiping to discuss restoring diplomatic
relations. Chou also suggested that talks on repatriation
of Japanese nationals be moved from Geneva to Peiping or
Tokyo.
Radio Peiping also announced on 17
October an "agreement" with the head of the Japanese
Diet delegation now in China which called for closer Sino-
Japanese trade and cultural relations, freer travel, pro-
tection of nationals residing abroad, and the exchange of
permanent trade missions with diplomatic status.
Comment The Chinese Communists are taking
advantage of the relaxation of inter-
national tensions to intensify their efforts to establish
de facto relations with Japan and convince the large num-
ber of visiting Japanese of their peaceful intentions. The
cumulative effect of the Japanese visits is likely to reduce
Japanese sentiment supporting rearmament and the con-
tinuance of American bases in Japan, as well as to gen-
erate further pressure on the government for a rapproche-
ment with the Sino-Soviet bloc.
There are indications that Tokyo will
await the results of the foreign ministers' conference at
Geneva before considering any major change in its policy
on cultural and trade relations with Peiping. Japan's con-
tinued recognition of Taipei presumably precludes full
diplomatic relations with Peiping for the foreseeable fu-
ture.
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3. FRENCH-SPANISH RIFT OVER MOROCCO WIDENING
American officials in Paris report
that Foreign Minister Pinay and the
Spanish ambassador had a stormy
session on 17 October over Madrid's
publication of its 15 October note to Paris protesting the
anti-Spanish press and radio campaign in France.
The chief spokesman for the French
Foreign Ministry believes that the stiffer line taken by
the Spanish ambassador in talks over the past two weeks
indicates that Spain intends to continue its anti-French
attitude for some time.
Comment Freewheeling military commanders
in both French and Spanish Morocco
have been largely responsible for the resurgence of ill
feeling, but the retention of the strongly anti-French
Garcia-Valino as high commissioner of Spanish Morocco
indicates that Madrid is bent on continuing a pro-Arab
policy.
French charges that Spain is aiding
the Moroccan rebels and Spanish pressure for consulta-
tion on reforms will probably continue to worsen rela-
tions between the two countries.
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BIWEEKLY SUMMARY
6 October-19 October 1955
THE FORMOSA STRAITS
Report of the IAC Current Intelligence Group
for the Formosa Straits Problem
1. Military activity in the area was marked by the first
Chinese Nationalist success against Chinese Communist jet
fighters and by the first Communist shelling of an island in
the Matsu group.
A clash between four Nationalist F-86's and at least
five Communist jet fighters near Nanchishan on 15 October
resulted in the loss of one of the Communist aircraft.
Communist shelling of Kaoteng, northernmost island
in the Matsus, was light, and apparently has been fired either
for registration or harassment. A total of 49 rounds was
fired at Kaoteng on 7, 11 and 14 October. The latest analysis
of photographs shows that between May and August the Com-
munists increased the number of occupied artillery positions
on the Peiling Peninsula, opposite the three main islands of
the Matsu group, from 16 to 32. An earlier report that the
Communists shelled Peikantang in the Matsus on 26 April has
been discounted as erroneous.
2. Two additional Chinese Communist airfield construc-
tion sites in the area were discovered during the period. This
brings to nine the total number of airfields in the Formosa
Straits area to be worked on this year, only three of which are
considered serviceable.
One of the newly observed sites is near Huian, about
50 miles northeast of Amoy, and the other is near Huiyang,
midway between Canton and Swatow. The locations of these
two sites and the one recently detected near Liencheng, 175
miles west of Foochow, suggest an effort to establish addi-
tional airfields to provide for greater operational flexibility
in the area immediately opposite Formosa. No firm estimate
of the completion date for the Huian and Huiyang fields is as
yet available.
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4. Another Chinese Communist railway construction
division has been identified as working on the rail line from
Yingtan to Amoy, making a total of at least eight such divi-
sions engaged in the work. According to Peiping's Five-Year
Plan, the Chinese Communists were scheduled to complete
only 270 miles of the 400-mile Amoy line by the end of 1957.
Since the Five-Year Plan goals were formulated, however,
the Chinese Communists have continued to assign more rail-
way construction units to the project, and have declared that
the line will be completed "ahead of schedule!'
5. Chinese Communist propaganda on international sub-
jects during the past two weeks increased somewhat in hos-
tility. Peiping repeatedly accused the US of obstructing the
Geneva talks, and of seeking to build up Japanese military
strategy, in order to promote further "aggression" in the
Far East. Comment on Formosa, which remained at a low
level, reiterated Peiping's previous formulation--that the
question of "liberating" Formosa is a purely internal affair,
and that only "US aggression" is a subject for international
negotiation.
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