FRENCH USE OF CHINESE
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CIA-RDP82-00457R000500790006-8
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RIPPUB
Original Classification:
C
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
November 16, 2016
Document Release Date:
April 11, 2000
Sequence Number:
6
Case Number:
Publication Date:
May 12, 1947
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IR
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This document contains information affecting the
national def4flqA DP82-00457R000500790006-8
within the mea ng o th CONTROL
50, U..S.C. 31 and 32 as ameaded, Its U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY %.:1i ~ENTI'AL 25X1 A
rahsmission or the revelation of
its contents in ant manner to
an unat horized person is
prohibited by law. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
ENCE REPORT
COUNTRY
French Irldo--China_
25X1A
SUBJECT French Use of Chinese
25X1A
25X1X
DIST-22 It May 3.947
PAGES I
SUPPLEMENT
1. The Banque de l'indochine recruitee.' in China an unstated number of Chinese to work
on the SaiEon rlanta?iens. About half of the first group to arrive were killed by
Vietnamese guerrillas. The news of this developcent rendered further recruiting
imros sible
A nch have been recruiting Chinese to act as police in Hanoi and Haiphong.
2. 15eXP
Comment: This may be an extension of the rlan worked out for Saigon in
25X1X early " 146 by c:' ich a joint Franco-Chinese police force was used for the maintenance
of or('er in. Chinese -inhabited districts and for the protection of the Chinese popu-
lation both apainst Vietnamese attacks and disorderly elements of French troops).
25X1A
3N dote: The Lien Ho am Pao, liberal leftist newspaper in Shanghai pub
li.shed the following article on ' Arril 1947:
"Kunming (By Vail) --- Regarc'ing the recruiting of volunteers by the Annam Nation-
alist Party in Yunnan Province, learned that has
issues directives to the Yunnan (1} All officers and men of the General Officers' Carps, who have not received writ-
ten demobilization orc'e s from the Government, are not rerml tted to participate in
the Annam 'ationalist Party,
(2) No one is alsored to organs ze trco s and to mobilize bandits inside Chinese ter-
ritory under the rretext of helr'ng the Revolutionary movement in Indo-China. As for
the activities of the Annarl rationalists in enlists np volunteers in Yunnan, they
should be outlawed.
(3) The Annam Nationalist Party sh-uld limit its organization and activities within
the territory of French Indo-China only."
CL A.S S.I.F I C A T LO N ._ CUN Xhut, - U . S. OF'r'1U ALS UNLY
Dates By: 11,E
Auth: DDAIRT. `7-1763
DDA )'.e. O;* 4'A-r
Class. C:
_"_~ DECI
NO CFHAN
Document Noo ~T-rte.,. CO
Approved For Release 2000/05/16 : CIA-RDP82-00457R000500790006-8