TREATMENT OF REPATRIATED CHINESE COMMUNIST PRISONERS OF WAR, KWANGTUNG

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY China
Treatment of Repatriated Chinese
Communist Prisoners of War, Kwangtung
REPORT NO. 25X1A
DATE DISTR. 3 February 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
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REQUIREMENT NO.
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
SOURCE:
1. On 1 September 195, more than 1,500 Chinese Communist prisoners of war
who had been repatriated from Korea arrived in Canton from Mukden on the
Peiping-Hankow and Canton-Hankow railways. On arriving in Canton, the former
prisoners, most of whom were Kwangtung natives, were placed under the
jurisdiction of the Kwangtung Military District. Over 200 of them were
settled at Shihching (W 23-13) E 113-15). About 200 who were sick and wounded
were admitted.to the 5 Army Hospital of the Central and South China Military
Area at Hsits'un (N 23-08, E 113-14) and the remaining prisoners were sent
to Shaho (N 23-09, E 113-19), where they were to undergo thought inspection
and political training under the supervision of indoctrination personnel of
the Kwangtung Military District. The former prisoners were not allowed to
leave Shaho or meet their relatives.
2. In mid-September the Canton. Education Bureau started a program under which
students of various middle or higher schools sent representatives to visit
repatriated Chinese Communist prisoners of war who were living at Shihchih,l
Hsisha (6007/3097) and Shaho. In order to arouse anti-American sentiment.
among the students during the visits, Chinese Communist cadres who had been
planted among the prisoners tearfully complained that the American imperialists
had maltreated the Chinese Communist prisoners of war and had secretly executed
thousands of them.
On 25 September an anti-American rally, called by the students but engineered
by Chinese Communist cadres, was held in Canton Central Park with more than
10,000 persons present. At this meeting representatives of the prisoners
of war were brought to the stand to repeat charges against the Americans and
to emphasize that American imperialisrl was the greatest enemy of the Chinese
Communists.
Comment. See
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