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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000500570005-8
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• Document Creation Date: January 12, 2017
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELL.IGE.N.CE.._AGENCY
This Document contains Information affecting the Na
ticnal Defense of the United States. within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 783 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
INFORMATION REPORT amended. Its trtneznlesion or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
bylaw. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION '
DATE OP INFO.
China/" oland
Voyage of Polish SS KILINSKI to
Taku Bar,, China .
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REPORT
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DATE DISTR. 2# April 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1, In early October 1952 the Polish merchant ship SS KILINSKI.arrived at Taku
Bar with a 10,000-ton cargo,, consisting mainly of iron and engine parts from
25X1 Czechoslovakia, Her captain.stated that Ttangku harbor could .be entered
only by vessels with a maximum draft of 23 feet, and that vessels exceeding
this draft had to be lightened as previously in Taku Bar. The SS KILINSKt9
which drew about 29 feet with her 10,000-ton cargo, offloaded some cargo to
lighters in Taku Bar until a draft of 23 feet was reached, and was towed by
several tugs into Ttangku harbor where the rest of her cargo was unloaded.
She was the first Polish merchant ship to enter the new Ttangku harbor.1
2. Ttangku harbor has a pier permitting the simultaneous berthing of three or
four ships of the size of the SS KILINSKI, The pier has a railroad spur,,
several electrical cranes and several-open storage sheds. A. railroad
connects Ttangku harbor with Tientsin. The captain stated that it took him
two and one-half hours to go from.Ttangku to Tientsin when he made a visit
to the agent of the Polish Ocean Lines,
3, The S.3 KILINSKI was loaded in Ttangku until the permissible draft of 23 feet.
was reached and took on the other cargo in Taku Bar, On 29 November 1952
25X1 she bunkered in Suez on her homeward trip from China and, subsequently,,
called at Constanta, Rumania,, where she unloaded 250 tons of hemp and. 30
25X1 tons of
Germarc,
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On 6 January the SS OAK HILL,2 under Polish charter, took on 100 tons of
acetic acid,, 300 tons of gas tubes 100 tons of aluminum foil, 30 tons of
paper, and 40 tons of engine part It was reported that this
cargo would be transshipped to the 33, AIMENSKI-7in Gdynia
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Comment. The German shipping paper Hansa, Issue Number 1+8 or
29 November 1952, indicated that, according to the official Chinese
Communist press agency, the new port of T'angku would be opened to
traffic on 17 October 1952
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