CHINESE COMMUNIST NAVAL ACTIVITIES, SOUTH CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500090005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Chinese Comunist Naval Activities, Clouth China
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25X1 The Chaoam--Ewatow (aastal,Patrol Ettitiontaine 12 gunboat? and 30 motor junks,
headed by the KUO MUG (00 )? 250 tons, equipped with one 13mmlaKaine gun
and six heavy machine guns, spoed 7.5 knots per hour, and formerly a revenue
cutter for the Nationalist Coastal Peace Pros.. .,tion Unit at Nanao (117-069
31' AP
23-22), Another gunboat9 the CH UNG PIING (/. Tun!, belonged to the Nationalist,
Canton Peace Prosorcation headquarters and ma s during the battle of Damao
' and later salvaged by the Chinese Communisto. Other gunboats aro the iw-TION
110? 1, LIWRATION NO, 29 and eight 100-ton landing vessels()
2? The Pearl rliver Defense Headquarters set up a shipprd ontho Huo Milt Shan Wan
( ) Island opposite Ta Chian Knan (1, 4rf near nalyang. (3.14-26.,
23-05), In late 1950 about 700 shipynrd workniss wdro under i'oviot naval
technicians and Chinese Communist staff officers. By the end of 19519 27
wooden motar junks, 100 tons each, with a speed of 16 knots and equipped with
one 13mm machine gun and four heavyrnehine guns, had boon built and assigned to
the Pearl River Defense Headqnarters to control smuggling activities.
After having attended a conference of the Central South China Nilitary and Poll-
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China Naval District, ordared the completion of the pier construction at Zulin,
Hainan, by the end of Jimle?2
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5. In South China ti-ere are 51 Soviet submarines nanned by 260 (sic) Chinese
Communist sailors, under t4e_command of soviet Major General Lun-t'a-k/o.,fu
25X1 ) (?Luntakov)1_1 Of these submarines, 17 are long range, 28
are assault types, and 6 are reconnaissance adbmarines.
6. On 2 June twenty-six 155 mm guns, forty 105 mm guns, and fifty-six smaller
guns arrived, at Canton on the Canton-Hankow Railroad. All these guns, of
soviet nanufacture? were transported to Human, Yainen? Nanshan Islands,
Santsao Island, Yulin, swatow, and along the Pearl River to strengthen
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