KUNG HSUEH-SUI, CH'EN SHAO-K'UAN, AND CHANG HSUEH-SZU IN RELATION TO THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS

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• Publication Date: February 24, 1950
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SUBJECT KUNG Hsueh-sui, CH''.N Shao-kaur.n, and CHANG Hsueh--
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ter^er 1949 Cori unist authorities had. three tires sent CH::TG Ting-ch' eng
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` Cor nunist governor of Ftxkt en Province, to try to win over CH"N
Shao-k'uan ( I ;1 )*. :Tot only did they hove to use him to organize
naval training school for officers and ran, rut they honed to exploit his
tremendous nersomml influence with officers of the Nationalist navy. Most of
the higher.rnnking Nationalist naval officers were either students or subordi-
nates of CH'EJ, and he was head of the !-a Wei Clique of the navy.
2. CH''",T has consistently r=fused to accent any Conr:nnist )ronosals and has con-
tinued in retirement*'. He has stated th,.t he is not interested in further
Bove"n^ Ent service on Pi ther the Conruni st or Nation ?- lis t side.
3. CHATG Hsueh-szu , I ), ;Danger brother of Young P'arsh,^1 C??'.'`G Hsueh-
lia,ng, although osten'ibly well integrated with the Conrunists is considered
by sore Corrrunist officials a.ssocia.terl rith hire to be retaining the tradition
of the Chinese r'rlorrls. He has be -n criticize( by ConrSunist associates, for
exarole, for giving financial aid to all his relatives and, to his father's
friends in A'anchuria. Ft-rner subordinates w'-to served under hi- in western
Liaoning; Province are not nerrittel to see hir often, and, his activities are
closely scrutinized, by the Conriunists.
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During ray 1?49, C-UOTG was a nartici'ant in the Urtional Youth Congress and
honed to be chosen for a mission abroad. In this he was unsuccessful, On
a ,47rsequent visit to his brother CHPL7G Hsueh.'mini; in Tientsin,
v was overheard by high ranking Com^unists expressing audible disa.n'roval
of Comrunist policies. As a result, he i'a^ rer^oved from his - osition as
governor of Liaoning; Provincel**. In disgust at his deposition, he resigned
as vice-chairran of the Northeast China. peoples s Government.
"" zxj 6. After the Cor:r~unist occurs el Shanghai , KUNG Hsueh-sui (%. 3 ) , former
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covered by them and they immediately began to question him. From then on,
he went throurth a tprocans of inouisition for thirty-seven co erg i iva Antro_
Mayor of Tsingtao and holder of other Nationalists, posts*'`**, gyros rlis-
With the help of General C} 1, he went back to Kiukiang, Kiangsi, to re-,
swine control of his textile mills. He was quite successful and made
money. At the end of a certain period, he decided to e,nd the enter-
prise. After distributing 30% of the net profit to the workers, he told
his sb reholders thr~.t their share of the profit would, be reinvested in
the industry. His policy won the suomort of the Cornnunist supervisors
in the mills.
25X1 I Cor ent. CHOPS Shaoo-k'11an,retired admiral, remained. In Foochow
af'Wir Its fall to the CorrTunists# in spite of the efforts of the
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Generalis:a.mo through CHOU Hsien-chang (11 ' ),chief of staff of the
NTationalirt navy, CHJ Shno-liang ( ,fa , former governor of Fukien,
an TANG 31 i-no of the Nationalist army to aersnade him to
leave. (HgEN resisted. all summonses to leave on the grounds th,--t he
was a CS,ineee and not afraid of his o.rn people.
After s ruing as commander in chief of the Chinese navy for twenty years
CFTPFN ias relieved of his corr-and following the Japanese surrender)
25X1 Coma At. CHI M has now acceptett a
nF51 on ai th the Chinese Comnunist Navy.
25X1 Comr^ent. CHEd G0 s .)osition in Liaoning was of long, standing; he
,s held it since 19L5, in addition to several northeast district mili-
25X1 tary comr^and.s.
25X1 Com- en . KUNG Hsueh sui, who was the Last Nationalist Mayor
but one of Tsingtao, was appointed by the Nationalists to be Mayor of
.Dairen, but was never able to take over his duties. He is both a
landholder, a capitalist, and a to:ch:.ici.an. His well-to-do landholding
family invested money in the textile mills which are referre-1 to in the
account. He, himself,, worked for maw,- years in the Nationalist n-InIs-
try of Communications. He came to 'Cent Kong to purchase spindles for
his textile mills. There has been an unverified rumor in Hong Kong
that he was sent to Hong Kong to persuade industrialists to invest in
forth China.
At the time of the fall of Nanking, Kt7NG Hsueh-sui had resigned from
his Mayorship of Tsingtao and was residing in Shanghai. Before Shang-
hai was abandoned by Nationalist troops, he received a request from
Acting President LI to proceed to Canton where the Government had
moved. ".'hereupon he was promised means of transnortatIon to South
China by the Mayor of Shanghai, General CH IN Liang. But 'ten he actu-
ally wanted to get out of Shanghai, he discovered that the Mayor had
left without giving him notice. Thus he had to remain in Shanghai.
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