SHIPPING AND TRADE, TSINGTAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003000040004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
Ulu, J_
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Shipping and Trade,
PLACE
ACQUIRED
25X1A
2008
CD NO.
i'"
35
DATE DISTR, 1E July 1949
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW) 25X1A
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
In The SS PIlai'`1'SIN and TAIPING (two Chinese freighters) off-loaded in Tsingtao
about 10" tons of corn each-, The TAIPIT;f~ was in Taingtao as of 1 July,
On .6 July the T1N'''+:TSIfl left, presiunably for Tientsin.
?o The NA Bt." (British) left for Lienyunkenr on 6 July and returned to Tsiwtao
on 8 July with a cargo of coal. The SA1'I NMtLARDO (Panamanian), which left
for Chefoo on 4 July, returned on 5 July to replace bad bunker coal i?'ith
good coal, and left again for Chefoo on 6 July. On 8 July the T.AS1711 RN
T1{:1a; a}1 (Panamanian) returned*" from Lienyunkan^ with 1,900 tons of coal.
3. All of the vessels which have recently called at Tsingtao"", with the
exception of the G!;RMA (1orwegian), the '(AFT (American) and the
DAURTNOUT11 VICTORY (American), have carried cargo only for the Chinese Communist
Bureau of Industry and Commerce",**, whose main office 'is at P7 Suiyuan
Road, The GM 14j", brought coal for the Tsingtao electricity works, and the
I'RESIDM11T 'a ''T and the DARTMOUTh VICTORY brought raw cotton for the textile
indus try.
4. All of the vessels except the three mentioned above are under a time charter
to YU-.i? ',"U1IG*4***, Hong tong. One representative of the charterer is on each
ship,, The TR1D ;it, for instance, is on a two-month veriod charter
with two months' option. The charterer pays Hong Nong $85,000 a month in
addition to war risk insurance.
5. The Communist Bureau of Industry and Commerce handles all of the trade in
Tsingtao,. Both Customs and the Harbor and Wharf Administration are under
this bureau.
6. Bighty junks left Chefoo with a cargo of corn and millet for. Tsingtao.
Only four of the junks have arrived in Tsingtao, because the rest were
commandeered by Nationalist naval units.
C-Z 7. Since the mid0le of June a former Japanese fishery rrotection trawler of
about 50fi tons displacement has been in the Tsingtao inner harbor, This
trawler was formerly i ith the Chinese ITationa.1ist Navy as Number P"1,
CONFIDENTIAL
Po1ment Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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CONF~~ENT~~~
' ~- 25X1A
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About March 1949 the ship deserted at Charipsanchou (sic) and Joined the
Communists at Chefoo. It is judged to have two 40 mm guns, two 20 mm guns
and two machine guns. The ship's personnel have the same uniform as the
Communist soldiers. The ship flies a large red flag with the hammer and
sickle in one corner and the letters "CCP" in a lower corner, all in gold.
25X1A 25X1A
Comment. it was stated that the TI `1`TSIN
25X1A and the TAIPING arrived in Tsingtao on 30 June with cargoes of corn.
25X1A
C"ommptd it was stated that the FASTN
TIER left on 5 July for Lienyunkang.
* See supplemented report
25X1A 25A1A
Cowmen a referred to an Industrial and Trade
25X1A Section of the Communist Military Control Board.
C mnent. Possibly this is the YIJEN KUNG Company, Hong
Kong.
CONFIDENTIA
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