NAVAL STORAGE AND GENERAL HARBOR INFORMATION TSINGTAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900880004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains informatdon aaeeting the National Defense of the United states within the meaning of the Bspionage Laws, Title 25X1
18. U.B.C. Sees. 783 and 784, the trsnsmisdon or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited by law.
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the following naval vessels were in Tsingtao:
a. At 0700 hours four small Chinese Comounist gunboats were outside the port
of Tsingtao. Hach was about 500 tons and counted one gun on the bow and
three machine guns on the stern.
b . During the morning two Chinese Communist submarines were 25X1
about five miles from the Tsingtao Harbor entrance. Both Carrie one machine
gun on the fiddle section and two smaller ones on the conning tower.
c. Two submarines similar to those in sub paragraph b, and one slightly smaller
submarine were at the ine-berthina pier in Tsingtao. The smaller
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d.,tt%ree similar Chinese Communist ships of about 2,000 to 3,000 tons each,
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single-turret guns on the bow and I on the stern. Each had two machine guns
f the bridge and four torpedo tubes at the stern. Two radars
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were halfway up the center masts. The engine noises were loud enough to be
heard 500 to 600 feet away. Black smoke with occasional white gusts poured
steadily from the funnels. There was a red five pointed star near the anchor
hole. One of the ships was anchored in the naval anchorage; the other two
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e. Two Chinese Comunist landing craft were at the naval pier.
2. Each of the warehouses at the No. 2 Pier was used for flour storage, and trucks
frequently delivered sacks of flour there
3. A concentration of two-story warehouses built of rock and gravel was near the
Chungshan (0022/1+72) Road on the Laichou (4610/3166) Road in Tsingtao. A rail-
road spur services these warehouses. They have small, rectangular windows on
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each floor and were apparently stocked with sacks of white flour;
trucks delivered flour there. The trucks had cogmercial-type license plates
with & ,White sign painted on the drivers' side as indicated:
k.? On 7 April when a foreign flag. ship called in Tsingtao, a representative from
the seaasn'a Union cane aboard and told the Chinese crew members that there
was a large aaosnt of native silk foods and food available at 20 to 40 percent
lest tbox th* Op" market ices.
none was to be sent to relatives in their hose
towns. No ration cards were needed for these purchases.
5. In an open area about one half of a mile from' the Bats used b u r returning
to their ships docked at Tsingtao, abort 2,000 soldiers ia,green cotton-quilted
uniforms were drilling from early morning until the afternoon About
ten busses and three jeeps were parked n"r the area.
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