CHINESE COMMUNIST MILITARY TRANSPORT AND RAILROAD INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008900100004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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In did-September the Chinese Cc*nr nists began build a large railway repair
shop at '.;uts'unyu (,,. t`4 )e on the Yunglung (+~ Highway, 20 miles
from Nanning,, The repair shop was being rebuilt by 600 technicians and labor-
ers and 15 Soviet advisers. A light railway has been built between the repair
shop site and the South Station at Nanning.
2. On 18 September 3 railway cars loaded rd h ammunitions and gasoline arrived at
Liuchou from 11ankow and unloaded at the Liuchou South Station. The ammunition
and gasoline, vhich oonsisted of 3,,500 boxes of small-type bombs and 150 x
50-gallon drums of aviation gasoline, were loaded on 34 military trucks and
transported to a warehouse on Liuchou Airfield.
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On 25 . ,.h,-, s t at 8:00 a.m. t IFJI Juag'-chen cabled LU Chen ;-ts r ao about a military
train rjiich as blocaded vahile headed oast of Tientsin. LU went to Chunlian ;chteng
(f ft 4 ) to enlist the aid of the Railway Bureau in clearing; up the matter.
This was the second time that transportation trouble occurred in the Chunli.angc 'eng
region since the Chinese Communists entered the Korean war. At 3 p4m. LI
K i o - teng roported to LIU Shao-Ch' i that ands::'ground elements must have caused
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1. On 22 September at 11 p.m. 500 cased of trench mortar amunition and 100 cases.
of anti-aircraft ammunition arrived at Canton from Hankorr on the Canton Ilankow
Railway. AU of this ar, on r s stored at the Chingt raid,' eng ( ~ )
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warehouse,, VJhite Cloud Airfield.,.
Between 13 and 1(. September approd.mately 3,000 mass. line mines of Soviet i sufacture
arrived in Canton from }lankow on the Cask ton$$Iankow Railway. The ue ; nes ie
stored at the Hutiehkang (Iy& 4, A ) IVlarehouse, i'1'aampoa. Some of these mines
are to be sent to S torn, the remainder to Asiying (110-21, 21-11), }iail:1ou,
(110-20,, 20-03), and Yulin@
6. On 17 September 16 x 37 man guns arrived at Shanghai by rail from Tientsin*
A number of these guns are to be emplaced at Taeh'ang and Kiangwan Airfields
and the remainder will be emplaced in a suburb of Shanghai.
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