CHINESE COMMUNIST INDUSTRIAL AND MEDICAL PURCHASES, HONG KONG AND MACAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005700100001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. On 10 July 1950 flAO Chun-feng (p1 ), Conmissioner of the North China
Trade Bureau, arrived in Hong Kong fro Peiping. On 15 July MAO sold,
through tlallem and Company, 10,000 tons of pig iron at Hong Kong (HK) $280
per ton, and used this 'sum to purchase 60 boxes of radio materials rtrid 100
sets of telephones from the Chung Yuen (It J )* and Kai Ming (J'G 01 )*
Electrical Supply Companies, at a total of HK $350,000. On 1 August the
radio and telephone sets were sent to Tientsin on the RIMATT, which belongs
to Butterfield and Swire.
2. MAO also purchased 300 tons of various kinds of water pipe from the Jen Jen
(k)-, ) Company, 600 tons of iron wire and steel plates (thickness of 1 to
3/10 inch) from P1 Ta Hang (.,;41 fJ i ), and 650 tons of sulphuric acid,
nitric acid and other industrial materials from Wing Wah (fir )* Company. JK- All will be sent to Tientsin.
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COUNTRY China/Hong Kong/Macro DATE DISTR. 28 Aug. 1950
SUBJECT Chinese Communist Industrial and Medical
Purchases, Hong Kong and Macao
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The Communist South China Trade Bureau has commissioned Li Rua Hang (4.ij
Macao, to purchase a large quantity of medical supplies - the main item
being penicillin from Hong Kong. It Hua ordered HK $1,')00,000 worth of
drugs from the Man Ring (% )'Drug Company, Hong Kong. On 4 August all
of the purchases were sent to Macao on the YU MEN ( s ) of the Min Sheng
( ~N 9E_ ) Shipping Company.
4. On 12 August the Canton Military Control Commission (MCC) sent WU Ting-chung
(~w ) to Hong Kong to buy 30,000 rolls of white Indian cotton cloth.
Owing to the shortage in Hong Kong of this cloth, WU bought only 3,000 rolls.
He commissioned Yu Chi (i -$ Cornpany* to order the remainder direct from
India, with the stipulation that the transaction be complete(. by 1 September.
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