CHINESE COMMUNIST PROCUREMENT OF RUBBER, GASOLINE AND OTHER SUPPLIES, HONG KONG AND MACAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007400600007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL OE GE CE "'AGENCY REPORT NO. ^
1 N R I REPORT CD NO.
DATE DISTR. ;. AY,r,
SUBJECT Chinese Conn unit Froc;u emeat of hubbeaT,, NO., OF PAGES 2
Gasoline and Other Supplies,. Hong 1oag and
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PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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1- In mid-Larch. the Na.c HIsin Company, 1 on Kongg purchased 13,000 sets of
tires and undetermined amounts of crude rubber which the Tai Tung (I\? 1al )
Company had purchased from India and Singapore and stored in the Wing Oa
) warehouse;, liong Koag~* The tires and rubber were being shipped
to Cantoa o
20 On 24 .arch 1951 the Ilan Kuang Compan sent 200 drums of gasoline from
I:acao to Clanton on the SS +T+I;G KING ( )The gasoline had been
"t 9 purchased from the Chung rain ;
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a4d Lee Sing Companies***
in ILaoao by the an Kuang Company. Five armed Cr-inese Communist guards,
assigned by the Iaacao branch of the South China Sub,.-Bureau to guard the
gasoline, boarded the vessel at Ch' ienshan ( 113-32, 22-14),
3, On 28 and 29 ~ia.rch seven ships brought 20,000 bags of ride to ilaac&o from
Auchow (1 i 9-.i9y 23-29). The rice was stored. in the Vaip?ing warehouse
on Yo riera rsjn Street.
4. On 3 April 1951, with the assistance of L1ANG Ch"arag****, a section chief
in the a~.acao aeon?io ,Bureau, the an ,uaang Company sold all this rice to
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the Yirig Chang (
4 ) and Ito Chi***** Companies. The profit from this
sale was to be used by the Jan Aua.ng Company to purchase industrial supplies
in cacao for shipment to the Chinese Communist authorities in iVuohow.
5. 1ha ian iLuarag Company of waoao made the following shipments to the Chinese
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On 28 iuaroh, 80 drums of gasoline,, 360 drums of kerosene, 200 drums of
coal tar, and 160 sets of tires were sent on the SS JUNG QI?AVG (,. )
and SS 11 S1ENG .(.#'J 1- ) to Canton from Laoa:,
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b. On 29 Larch, 70 drums of gasoline, 13 tons of scrap iron,.and 17 tone of
lead wire were sent from Kowloon to Canton on the Canton-Kowloon Railroad.
o, On 30 karch, 45 drums of gasoline, 260 sets of truck tires, and about 10
tons of scrap iron were sent to Canton on the Canton-Kowloon railroad;
18 drums of gasoline, 1,800 drums of kerosene, and approximately 300 drums
of coal tar were sent to Kongmoon (1?3-05, 22-35) by water from Macao,
d. On 1 April, 260 drums of gasoline, 500 drums of kerosene, 12 tons of scrap
iron and 375 drums of coar tar were sent to Canton on the Canton-Kowleoa.
Railroad.
eo On 2 April, 300 drums of gasoline and 8 oases of oommunioations supplies
were sent to Uanton on the Canton-liowloon Railroad; 6 now trucks were
driven to Canton by way of Chungahan (113-36,: 22-22) from the ALaoso area.
* Comment. The Nan Hsin Company appears to be a frequent
purchaser of rubber for the Chinese Communists; see 25X1A
The Hong Kong Dollar Directory for 1951 lists
the Tai Tung Company, 25 hillier Street, with branches in Singapore,
Bangkok, Tokyo and Bombay.
25X1A *** Comment. These companies were reported in paragraph 3 of
25X1A a ddealers in petroleum products. The names have been given
in the dialectic form used in the earlier report.
25X1A **** Comment. - reported that LIANG had gone to Timor in
February 1951, fora two month's stay.
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