PURGE OF CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

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• Publication Date: May 22, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORN NO. 51-4A01
FEB 1952
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Purge of Chinese Communist Party and
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794,. OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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1, On 14 February 1952 the Central and South China M itary and Administrative
Committee held a conference at Li Huang Poi ( 0- j* VL ) Roads Hankow4 under
the chairmanship of TENG Tzu-hui and attended by the following persons.
CHANG Nan.-.hsien ( ] 1 )
CHAO I-min
CH 5ENG Chien
CH' IEN Tin,
CHOU Chun-=ch ?uan ) I, t }
vice chairman of the Central and South
China Military and Administrative Committee
in charge of publicity for the Central and
South China Military and Administrative
Committee.
chairmaan of the Hunan Provincial Govern-
ment.
in charge of personnelo3
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CHOU Tug-kuang
FANG ChB sang (~Q " )
Ht K B o-shih (i~ -it
KUALA Han-t B ao
LI Hsien-mien
LI: YBUm-feag
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commander of the Central and South China
Navy
in charge of the organization of Communist
youth in the Central and South China area,4'
mayor of Hankow.
assistant secretary general of the Central
and South China Military and Administrative
Committee.
LIU Chien-hsv.n (I ~~ )5
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PAN Chi A ) in charge of organi zation, 6
PBA1 Tzu-nien ( ) in charge of education.7
TRAIT Cheng ( ) director of the Kwangtung Public Security
Department.
TBANG Hs ink; ( )
TENG Shao-yam
TS BENG I-fan ( )q )
WANG Shih-hsunb
director of the public security bureau.,
The following decisions were made at this meeting;
a, To remove WU Te-feng (A- It * ) from his position as mayor of Wuhan as
an example to other officials.
b. To have all organizations promote the movement for self and mutual criticism.
c. To practice strict discipline and frankness in carrying out the three-anti 's
movement, which is to be completed by the end of April,
d. To have local militia and regular troops help farmers in spring planting,
e. To send intelligent members of the militia to engineer and artillery train-
ing schools,
f. To promote technical research and study among workers in defense industries
in order to increase the production of weapons.
g. To complete defense works at the hsien level by the end of May.
h. To improve and extend military, roads.
i. To order all farmersI associations, workersI unions, and party organizations
at provincial, hhien, anad municipal levels to cooperate closely with the
armed forces stationed in their areas.
j. To improve and supply all strategic bases in the Central and South China area.
In February the following members of the Chinese Communist Party in Canton accused
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under the three-anti es movement were awaiting trial.,
CHU Ching-chihl0
LI Chan-yuuan ( * I tJ )
(K 4 .1 :t )
( ~)L *AI)
WANG Chien-min, QQ )12
general manager of the Canton National Cox-
struction Company and deputy chief of the
Canton Construction Bureau.
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chief of the Canton People's Court. He was
charged with having embezzled. JMP
400,000,000.
LI Mu
a section chief in the Kwaragtuxg Commuxica-
tions Bureau.
LIN Hsi-feng (, , IV ) n head of the general office of the South
China Bureau.
MAO Shao-i a section chief in the Kwangtuxg Commuxica-
Wiz tions Bureau.
TSO Hu.xg-t ?ao ( ,,' , )l head of the General Office of the K.wangtuxg
Provincial Government,
chief of the Canton Enterprising Bureau.
He was charged with having embezzled JMP
800,000,000.
By February 1952 the following purge activities had taken place in the 7
Military Sub-District in Kwangtung Province under the three-anti's and five-
anti's .movements:
a. Persons fired from their positions:
CHENG Ping-chUing ( ~~ ) a chief accountant of the supply service of
the South China Navy.
KAO Shou-p'eng (~ ) section chief of the supply department.
YANG Tzu-chiu 14
deputy section chief of the supply
department.
b. Persons suspended from their positions and given courses in thought
reformation.,
CHANG Li-hsing ( h 13 )
CHIEH Chuing-pin
HUANG Hui ( )
LU Ling ( 1j ,, ~)-
chief of the investigation and commun-
ications wait.
operator of a guest house.
an accountant in the political. department.
a staff officer of the sub-district
command.
TIAN Hsii ( ) . an official of the supply department.
1'U Li ( ) : chief clerk of the supply department.
c. Persons given warnings and permitted to return to their jobs:
HSU Chiem-chic (44-,410)
chief of the finance section of the
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HUANG Shan-chaxg
YANG Pei-sham
FENG Kuang (~~~ - ' ) . deputy secretary of the Chiangmen govern-
ment.
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5. By 15 March 1952 the East River Commissioner's office in Kwangtung had seat
fifty persons to a political training class in Canton and had assigned thirty
others to a land reform work squad under the three-anti's and five-anti's
movements;
6. By 14 February 1952 fourteen members of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai
had been accused of waste and minor corruption under the three--anti's movement,
and after giving voluntary confessions had been released. The following persons
in Shanghai had been discharged from their positions and were awaiting trial on
more serious charges:
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CH'ENG Wen-li (,
' ) a adviser to the Shanghai Military Control
Committee.
LUr K'un-yua.n
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supply department.
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an accountant in the political department.
a section chief in the supply department.
d. One of the persons to be placed on trial at the mass trial under the three-
anti's and five-anti's movements to be held at Chiangmen (113-06, 22-34) on
5 March:
SUNG Jen-chieh (1 ` A - , )
a section chief in the Shanghai office of the
Ministry of Communications.
head of the finance section of the Spinning
Mill Control Bureau.
TS'AI Hui head of the finance office of the East China
Military and Administrative Committee.
In Shanghai the five-anti's movement is directed against Shanghai store owners,
and store employees are urged to write to the local public security bureau
concerning corrupt practices of their employers. By mid-February the following
prominent Shanghai businessmen had been arrested under this movement:
CH'IN Chi-kuang (C
CHU Chia nung
CHU Kuang-hua
TENG Chung-ho
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WANG K ' ang-ni en ( 1.- )
8. In February the South Kiangsu Commissioner's office accused WANG Kuei-san
(.. ), manager of the South Kiangsu Native Products Company, of
corruption.
9. From 2 to 20 February 1952, a three-anti's exhibition was held at Chin; Shan
1 ~'I ) Park, Pei pi , der the sponsorship of the Peiping Economy Committee
headed by P'ENG Chem ).14 Since the opening of'the three-anti's move-
ment in Peiping 173,000 cases of bribery, graft, embezzlement, smuggling, and
other types of corruption, involving over JMP 10,000,000 have been discovered
there. Of these cases, 47,000 concerned merchants.
10. In early March in Peiping the five-anti's movement was being enforced by small
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purge units aided by the local public security bureau. These units were
compelling all businessmen, the main target of the fine-anti's movements to
write confessions beginning with an early age and continuing to the present.
Through these confessions, a large number of businessmen were fould to have
doubtful backgrounds or to be unlawfully in business, All such persons were
either jailed or forced to repent.
1. I IComment. CH'EE I-hsin is chief of the Public Security Department of
Hupei Province
L onsent. WANG Shou-atao is head of the Hunan Provincial Government,
according to available reports.
3. I IComrent, The personnel department of the Central and South China
Military and Administrative Committee, of which CH'IEN Ting is a member,
is probably intended.
40 Comment. The Communist youth organization department of the Central
and South China Military and Administrative Committee is probably intended,
HU K'o-shih is also an alternate member of the executive committee of the
China New Democratic Youth Corps.
5. Comment, LIU Chien-hsunn is a member of the Central and South China
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6. 1 (Comment. The organization department of the Central and South China
Military and Administrative Committee may be intended.
Comment. The education department of the Central and South China
Military and Administrative Committee, of which P'AB Tzu-aiem is, a member,
is probably intended.
8. Comment, Presumably the T'AN Chen-wen renorted as head of the Kwang-
uxg Public Security Bureau
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Military and Administrative Committee and a political commissar of the
Chinese Communist armored group at Pengt'ai near Peiping,
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I_ Comment The public security department of the Central and South
China Military and Administrative Committee may be intended.
Comment. CHU Chimg-chih is deputy director of the Kwangtung Trade
ureau aid former manager of the N A Kuang Trading Company in Macao,
11. JCo:smaent. TSO Hung-teao is deputy secretary general of'the Kwangtuxg
provincial government. He was reported to have connections with LI Feng-min,
manager of the Southwestern Trading Company in Hong Kong, which has been
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12. JComment. WANG Chien-mini; was appointed to the Finance and Economics
omm tee of the Canton municipal government in June 1951.
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Comment, TENG Chun-ho is a multimillionaire and owner of the Palace
o e and An Soh Cotton Goods Company in Shanghai. According to a press re-
port in 1948 he was charged with having collaborated with the Japanese during
World War II,
LJComment. P'ENG Chen is mayor of Peiping. In May 1951 he attended a
public trial of 221 anti-Communist suspects in Peiping, during which the
suspects were judged guilty and executed.
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