1. CHINESE COMMUNIST TROOPS, MACAO AREA 2. BUS COMPANIES, MACAO AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004900590013-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: May 31, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT 1. Chinese Communi.st Troops, .a cao Area
2. Lus Companies, ...acao Area
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1. On 24 .arch 1950 a battalion of the Chinese Communist iwangtung-twangs-i
Colu a, about 150 men, reached Chien Shan. (113-32, 22t-?14), north of i:tacao,
carrying two long-range field Lures. The field pieces were mounted on a
fort at the foot of Iei Ling pointing directly at ::cacao. A
reinforced platoon of the Awangtung. kwangsi Column was placed there to
guard the place, and in early April passage near this installation was
strictly forbidden.
2. In early April lP50 there were about fifty armed Chinese Communist
soldiers who were assigned to remain in Lacao on duty. They were staying
in cheap, low-class hotels
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3. in early April IP50 between seven and ei ht hundred former gationalist
soldiers were ~r,oved from Scu ku (1-7 to Chungshan and Shihchi to
engage in farming 1'ive hundred of this man were placed in the 5th district
of Chiugshan hsien, ors hundred in the 6th district, and the rest were
scattered through other rural areas. They were under the supervision of
the Kwangtung- zwangsi Colum.. The local, population was ordered to contribute
one ounce of rice per head to support this group.*
4? The Chih auan Bus Company, which was taken over by the Chinese Communists
in late April 1950*,,, eper.?atea profitably over the good highway which the
company had constructed between L_scao anct Srtihchi. in early ripril 1950
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PAC :n~we (fi ~. i had been appo7.nt;ed by the ,hhihcni u:ilitary
Control Commission to make an investi ation of the property of the bus
comoarry in Chunbshaa lhsien acid s:_scao, and was waa.ta.ng for instructions
from the tw:angtua; ailita_ey Control Commission for the takeover, Control
of the company gives the Chinese Comaiunists the profit from the operation
of the bus lines and the use of the t.numsrous busses for economic and
military purposes" After the takeover the busses were to run between
Shit. ciii and jiu>Arr Ch "la (j3,I t J ), on the Chinese side of the is?.Facao border.
b.. In early April 1950 the contract between the cacao bus Company and its
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employees was about to expire. The contract is renewable each year. The
employees wore planning to demand charges in wor,cirg hours and extra pay for
work on Sunday, and a strike appeared possible if the comper}y's reply should
be unsatisfactory. The bus company's franchise from the Lacao Government is
valid for six years, and has -three more years to run, it is unlikely that
any other bus company will be established, in cacao prior to the expiration
of this franchise,.
arruaent. The period covered by these contributions was not
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