1. CHINESE COMMUNIST MILITARY CONSCRIPTION AND TRAINING 2. ARMS PRODUCED BY THE HANYANG ARSENAL

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• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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1. Chinese Comar.iml.st Military
Conscription and. Training
2. Arms Produced by the Hanyang Arsenal
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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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 March :1.953, the Chinese Communist Revolutionary Military Council
issued a directive to all. military area commanders specifying'that a' six-
month probationary period had. been granted prior to the introduction and
enforcement of compulsory universal militia service in China. All
laborers.. poor peasants, middle peasants, and tenant farmers in good health who
conformed to Communist political and cultural standards, were qualified
for service. The Council ordered that the program be placed in operation by
1951+.1 The directive was to be put into immediate effect in those areas where land
.r'efo A,^has been long completed andintroduced at a later date in other areas.
2. To emphasize the privelege and duty of militia service, a vigorous propa-
ganda program.. linked with the Anti-America, Aid-Korea program,, was to be
initiated.
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During January the Communists initiated a join-the-army campaign in Hopeh. Of
approximately 400 families in Chulu (N 37-13, E 115-01) Hsien, 64 able-bodied
men had been recruited for service in the army and were temporarily stationed
in Shihchiachuang (! 38-020 E 114+-28) where they awaited training.
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During mid-January the Communist military authorities of Canton, planned to
establish the 25 Infantry School2 in Huangsha (7806/3097), Canton. Approx-
imately 5,000 recruits from Hunan had been sent to Huangsha for training.
Rumors were that the ricruits would form the nucleus of a new army in the
Canton area.
5. During January, the -eHa:ayan.g arsenal was producing hand grenades, heavy a V
light machine 6-xn.s, and shells for 60-mm. mortars of Soviet-manufacture.
Metals were being transshipped to Hanyang through Macao.
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Commment. Compulsory military service has been enforced in the
or east Military Area since 1952.
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25 Infantry Training School in Canton in June 1951. Possibly e present
report indicates a, relocation of the school in Huangsha district.
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in November 1952 the Hanyang Arsenal
was producing 75-mm- . shells and Machine guns and was planning the production
vf' R~ ..mrr. rnovt x er 11,;1T, inch howitzers, and field pieces.
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weapon of this type In. present production. Production and use of the old
t uceva 0 mortar the 82-mm. mortar being the smallest caliber
Comment;. The only 60-mm. mortar produced by the Chinese Communists
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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DATE OF INFO.
Military Installations and Shipments,
South China
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited,
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. During March 1953, the Communist Airforce 7 Sub-depot was located in Lungt'an
(7893/3389), an eastern suburb of Canton, approximately 1,500 feet west of
T'ienho Airfield, 1,200 feet east of the highway leading to Huangpu (7806/3181),
2,100 feet north of the Canton-T'ienho highway, and 900 feet south of the Canton-
Kowloon railway line. The depot was approximately 200 feet long, 60 feet wide, and
35 feet high, and was constructed with a cement floor, a steel plate ceiling,
and brick walls.
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On 3 January 600 boxes of ammunition were shipped&,,:f'rom an ammunition dump at'
Wuchou (N 23-28, E Ill-:L9) to Mengchiang (N 23-28, E iio-46).
On every other day in early January, three or four large sailboats, towed by
a motor launch, sailed from Canton to Junghsu (N 23-23, E 111-16) via Wuchouo
The sailboats carried cargoes of military supplies of an unidentified type,
destined for transshipment to Hainan Island. Upon the arrival of the sailboats
at Junghsu, they were anchored away from the shore; no other ships were allowed
in their immediate vicinity. The cargoes were unloaded after dark into 6 by 6
trucks. Each time the r.3ailboats arrived at Junghsu, approximately ten trucks
were required to transport the supplies.2
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Between early and mid-January large numbers of laborers were conscripted by
the Communists to build fortifications in the hilly areas of Ch'ihling (N 23-56,
E l14-00), Lungmen (N 23-46, E 114-04), Makungshan (approximately N 22-41,
E 114-57), and Haifeng (N 22-58, E 115-20).
7. During mid-January Communist garrison troops ordered the residents of Neiling-
tien (N 22- , E 113- ) island to evacuate. Orders were issued tbat:na fishing
boats would be permitted to sail near the island.
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movement of three large civilian junks carrying military supplies to Junghsu
from Canton in February. These supplies were transferred to trucks at
Junghsu and shipped south..
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