1. ACTIVITIES OF THE TSINGTAO BASE COMMAND OF THE EAST CHINA NAVY 2. ACTIVITIES OF THE EAST CHINA FLEET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700140008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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C.EN.TRAL INTE.LLIG.ENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
the East China Navy,. The base command was at the former base of the
Ciinese Nationalist Navy Training Corps at the entrance to Laiyang (5490/7122)
Road, Tsin tao.l CHAO (6392) (fnu) was base commander aid LAI K'o-k'o
(6351/0668/0668) was political commissar of the command.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT 1. Activities of the Tsingtao Base
Command of the East China Navy
2. Activities of the East China Fleet
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REPORT
DATE DISTR. 20 March 1953
NO. OF PAGES 3
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
i China, Shanghai
STATE .r ARMY
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about 13,000 navy and marine personnel, excluding navy 25X1
school cadets and trainees, were attached to the Tsingtao Base Command of
the personnel of the base command were disposed as 25X1
a. 1,000 men near the Chin 'shah (0079/1472) Road, Paoshan (0202/1+72)
Road, Yushan (7625/1472) Road, and Hsihsia (2776/7209) Road.
b. 3,000 men near the Tengchou (4098/1558) Road.
c. .500 men in the former United States billets near the Ch'angchou
"(1603/1558) Road.
d. 500 men near the Suiyuan (48+0/6678) Road.
e. 300 men near the Chouts'un (0719/2625) Road.
f. 300 men near the Huangt'ai (7806/0669) Road.
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9. 300 men near the Talien (1129/6647) Road.
h. 500 men near the Ch'itung (7871/2639) Road.
io 300 men near the Ch'inghai (7230/3189) Road.
300 men near the T'aitung (0669/2639) Road.
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Naval. School between Chanshan (3277/11+72) and Fushan(31$7/111+ s 7/4772) roads.
r.
The new school was expected to accommodate 2,500 trainees. The authori-
ties-of the school intended to enroll a larger number of trainees for
engine and torpedo instruction in 1953 than had been enrolled in the past.
Owing to the inadequacy of the old navy school facilities at the entrance of
Chanshan Road, formerly the. site of a youth homey to handle the number of
trainees at the school., the majority of students moved to residences at
Patakuan (0360/1129/7070) Road.
d T ~+ ..,. y?~ V
unina ary Area began construction of an e end
4.. barracks were constructed in front of Shalin
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gc
uang (p/1
45
/51+1+5),
formerly the site of an army hospital, to house the marines based at
Tsingtao?.
Comment.) three-fourths
of the housing--facilities in Tsingtao are used for barracks and other
military purposes.
of three or four gunboats and auxiliary vessels, were vbased =permanently Lat
Tsingtao.. As many as 20 vessels were occasionally in Tsingtao harbor.
China, Hupeh
bai- 16 were unaer the command of the East China
a. WEI HAI (1218/3189), a 1,500 ton vessel.3
b. Six former Japanese vessels of 1,000 tons each, the CHIEH (2234) 9, the
CHIEH 10, the CHIEH 12, and three others whose designations are not
known.
7. These ships were repaired at the Union Dock Yard at Patattou'(0360/1129/7333)
Yangshup'u (2799/2885/3181+), Shanghai, a British-owned firm under the joint
operation of the Hsiang Sheng (4382/3932) and the'Jui Jung (3843/5554)
shipping firms. After the repairs were completed, the ships were armed at
the Kiangnan Naval Dockyard. Each ship was armed with one Japanese-made
3-inch gun, two Soviet-made 4-inch army guns, four Japanese-made 25mm automatic
guns, and two anti-aircraft guns. These ships were assigned to the East China
Fleet which patrolled between Choushan Islands and Shanghai.
Comment.
missar of the East
mayor of Tsingtaop
LAI K'o-k'o was political a=-
Shantung Military Area Command at Tsingtao, and
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Comment. The WEI HAI (renamed CHI NAN), 71+0 tons displacement,
and CHIEH 12 (renamed CH'ANG SHA), 900 tons displacement were reported
to be under the command of the East China Naval District
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