(SANITIZED)1. MILITARY INFORMATION(SANITIZED) 2. SOVIET ADVISERS, CANTON(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008200240013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR r ".
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO. ym, 50X1-HUM
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT L DUlitary Information
2, Soviet Advisers, Canton
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approximately 30,000 army recruits from military districts
in Kwangtung arrived at Taengch'eng (113-Lj9, 23-16), Huahsien (113.18,, 23--29)
and P' anyu (].13--26, 23-01) for military training Field n
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In ndd May the Chinese Communists were recruiting men in Kwangtung for the
third time. The number of volunteers was less than formerly because the
families of those recruited previous! for the regular army had not received
mail from the recruits. 608000 men had been recruited 50X1-HUM
in the second recruiting, per? o in the following districts; k o 500 from Nuhai
(113--08, 23-02); u, 500 from the 17eat River; 3,000 from Ch' aoshan (116-35.,
23-42); 9,500 from the East River; 5,000 from. lfeihsien; .t, 000 from the North
River; 1,100 from the Pearl River; and 9 000 from Central Kwangtung,0 Of these
IJ.O, 000 were in regular replacements (sic).
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7, Chinese Cammunist troops were garrisoning the Canton Kowloon railroad to
prevent. the destruction by local guerrillas, urging people along the rail line
to report persons loitering along the line, and holding local people responsible
for damage to the railv?y.
8, The largest bridge on the Canton-I;owloon rail line at Shihlucag was being
guarded by an anti-aircraft artillery company equipped With 2 antiaircraft
guns end 8 antiaircraft, machine - uns , Company commander T 9 UNG Shou-u n
tL) ) is not a native of I vangtung,
9 b There were 25 x 3-TBN (sic) tanks2 at the entrance to 71ite Cloud Airfield
under the trees near the water pool, There was also a camouflaged semi-
automatic anti-aircraft gun 100 yards from the guard post on the right side
of the entrance of Mite Cloud Airfieldo The gunners were in a small tin-sheet
roofed house near the gun. There was a camouflaged double-barreled 13 ma (sic)
anti-aircraft gun 200 yards from the guard post at the entrance to the
airfield.
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10, on Pai non ( ) Road, opposite We Cat colic lurch, were 30 Smlet-made
t 5-roimd semi--automatic Lo T +ung i )-L guns with 6, 700 cases of shells;
each case was 161 x 16t.
1.1. At a walled-in lot in back of Number 15 Ts taiyuan'isi off
Paitzu (?I ) Road,, in the Tungshan (& J ) area, Canton, were 5, 200
boxes of gun shells, rifle ? amuaition and gun parts for 75 mm gums
l2, There were large quantities of rai.'..i tary supplies back of Ch a ienchien (g~ j )
Branch Office, west Tunghua Road, Canton,
134 There were 1,90 semi automatic 75 mm mountain glans and 200 trucks stored on
) Road near rf`.. ngchiaoch l ang in Canton.
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or t divisions totaling approxi=tely one army group vreru,; a
follows : Nanhai, lest River, Central Klvangtung, Pearl River, North River,
East River, Meihsien and Ch"aoshan. Before the end of May volunteers and other
recruits and some of the militia in each of the various special administrative
districts were to be organized into one replacement division. 50X1-HUM
end of 7;hampoa- Road in Tangshan, Canton.
buildings on the right side of the road near P uassuyuan (i 4 j f ),,-at the 50X1-HUM
154 a former residence of YEll Chieri ying at Meihuats sun i
in Tungshan, Canton, was being` used by the Sino-Soviet Association
Canton to billet Soviet technicians and adviserso Most of the important
Chinese Communist conferences in the Canton area were being held at this
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16. On 23 June the Naval IIoadquarters of the Central and South China Military
Area moved from a building on Taitak Road, Canton, to the Chinese Ca unist 50X1-HUM
Naval Club Building in Shemoen, C'?antono
Camaent, Possibly Brarming. 50X1-HUM
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