POLITICAL - OCCUPATION CONDITIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600230553-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 553
• Publication Date: June 13, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Communist China
SUBJECT Political - Occupation conditions
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily nevapaper
WHERE
DATE
PUBLISHED 1k > 19k9
LANGUAGE Chinese
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
DATE DIST. /'Jun 1.949
NO. OF PAGES 1
SUPPLtMENT TO
REPORT NO,
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
MERCHANT P3PORTS ON
WU-IISI AFTKR COMSEST OCCUPATION
The following veretcn regarding conditions in Vu-hies, Riangeu Province,
after the Communist occupation on 23 April was given by a merchant who recently
returned from that city:
CtASSIR'TION
CENTRAL INTE'L.LItENCE AGEMJY
"Sea.use the occupying forces were mostly irrrperienoed boys in their
late teens, the m-esermtion o-' order during the n,;cupatioa re.^ioa was left
largel, to the local militia. After a week, the Ccomrmiste assayed iull con-
trol but few experienced administrative personnel had been sent to the city.
"After the Communists took over all newcpaper firms, the Sn-non Jit-vao
(South liangan Daily) was put into circulation. Since it only gives coverage
of Communists' ideo7.ogy and military suocessee, its popularity with the people
is negligible. The businessmen have reopened their shops, but trade in carried
out mlj on a limited scale. They are still confronted with the problem of
paring their employees. Factorise have resumed operation but are permitted
to sell their goods only to the designated Communist trading company.
'Althou& IM gold-yam certificates were allowed to circulate as lagal
tsmder until 13 Msy, all merchants immediately refused to accept then. This
resulted in trade confusion.
The biggest boom was enjoyed by the amusement plrces which realized an
unprecedented business. Many of the Communist troops who patronized these
plasos were overuheimeu by the gadgets of modern civilization."
STAT
CLASSIFICATION REM
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