CHINESE COMMUNIST TROOP MOVEMENTS, EAST AND SOUTH COASTAL AREAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300310004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 9, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CO2,1FIDMITIAL/C ONTI'DL - U, S. Or ICTA?S O1 LY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
Chinese. Czw twist Troop Movements, East and
South Coast d F .,.
DATE OF
INFO. July 1951
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DATE DISTR. 9 Aug. 1951
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SUPPLEMENT TO 25X1 X
REPORT NO.
19 On 27 July a regiment arrived in '.:enchou from Nanking.' It will go north
by water after 23,000 (sic) militia troops from various hsien under the
-.enchou commissioner's office have been added to it.
2d on 29 July a mountain gun battery and an infantry platoon of the Chinese
Communist 31 Army moved from Pai'tang (118.02, 24-15) where they had been
setting up positions, to Chenhaich'eng (].18-05,p 24-165, The move vias
ordered by the headquarters of the 31 Army after these positions at Pai'tang
had been exposed to the Nationalists during an artillery engagement.of
these units with Nationalist naval vessels on 27 July.
3. During early July a large quantity of dynamite arrived at Choushan Island
from Shanghai. ''.pile some of this dynamite was being unloaded at Tisighai
(122.06, 3003) an explosion occurred. It was caused by the carelessness
of deck coolies and resulted in the destruction of 130 civilian houses and
the death or injury of 150 Communist soldiers and civilians.
4o Two hundred Japanese prisoner of war artillery troops have arrived in
Cantor and have been assigned to an artMtii~.-y unit of the 4 Field Army in that
area.
The chief of staff of the Pearl River Garrison headquarters is CHIA Lieh
6.
25X1A
In mid-July 2'000 Chinese Communist marines arrived in Tsingtao in
landing craft. 25X1A
7.. = Comment. reported that an artillery regiment of the
Am, "=eh was sent to areas along the Canton-Kowloon railroad
in late rebr agcy, was composed mainly of Japanese prisoners of ward
Ma CS'la'n-n In Class
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