TENSE SITUATION IN TIENTSIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200100001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 20, 1948
• Content Type: IR

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INFORMATION REPORT
'CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
CLASSIFICATION @M#W
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Tense Situation in Tientsin
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF IN
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1. Curfew was maintained in Tientsin throughout the morning of 18 December. Only
official care and pedestrians with proper passes were permitted to circulate.
1? . The reason for the maintenance of curfew and traffic control during the day,
according to a report said to have originated in Garrison Ileadquarters, was
that 40,000 completely demoralized Nationalist troops coming from the Taneku
area were looting and shooting enrouto. The curfew resulted in the a3most
total iithdrawal of demoralized troops from the streets and in the lessening
of disorder.
3.
Excessive intermittent gunfire came from south of Tientsin after midnight and
continued through the morning of 18 December.
4. Four China Air Transport plhne'R left Tientsin late on 1 December. Vaased
5.
troops on the airfield make future landings there improbable; however, the
completion of the race course strip is hoped for in three days.
An American-employed Chinese stated that his Soviet friends had advised him
to leave Tientsin, as twelve Soviet political police had arrived in the city
in the past two weeks from Shanghai. These men had arrived in Shanghai from
the U. S. S. R. on the lash Soviet ship.
6. Great tension exists among all Tientsin circles. The general feelin?; is that
the Communists should enter in>mediately and get it over with. It is felt that
the Communists can take over at any moment.
This cu- rnent is hereby regraded to
CONFI IAL in accordnce with tho
leader of 1 ctober from the
Director of Cc I In .o,;; ,e tro to the
Archivist of tho L d StMes.
CLASSIFICATION
Document No.
NO CHANGE in Class.
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