SOUTH CHINA NAVAL INFORMATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 10, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. During the summer of 195L 60 armored boats were bein built at Huangpu
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ChEnchiang to be the second largest port in Southeast Asia when com-
Pleted, capable of berthing a 15,000 ton battleship and 50 large merchant
ships, 30 of wn:Lcn nave been. completed and have begun
to transport cargo to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DR.y),
During the .summer of 1951, Soviet technicians were sent to CI?anchiang
(1 .0-24, 21-11) with approximately 1,,000 tons of construction equipment
ans. materials to expand the harbor. The Chi-s? Cozzm
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3. Abcut 20 November the C:-JIv SING (-4 &) and the CBR.IAO YUN (" "I ) and
three -vessels under the South China Marine Control Bureau were at Chan-
ch.3ang.. These vessels carry cargo between Cantor, and Chanchisng to a.d
the DR';. On 17 November two gunboats carrying cargo from Uuengrju arrived
in Cha:7chiangv
In early November the 4 Marine Division, commended by CHANG Fu (& 'r )
former commander of the gunboat KLT0 KAN (f;_ k),, was established at
Yulin with a strength of 8000 men? Approximately 20,000 men ' in train-
ing at. Saraya and Ha jk ft ou (110-20, 20-03) will be formed Into the 1, 2,, and
3 Marine Divisions. Two thousand cadets training at the 4 Branch Naval
Acadezrr in Yulin will become officers in these divisions.
5. On.3 November, 12 Soviet amphibious planes, 3 of which were twin-engined
and 9 czingle n/;i.ned,, arrived in Yulin from Amoy. On 23 NNoverber these
plaies wee officially turned ovax to the Central and South China Navy
by Aaki.nov,2 the head of the Soviet advisory group to the Central and
South China Navy, These planes were to be flown by Soviet pilots who
are afro instructors at the Yulin Naval Academy.
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At 10 pwmw on 18 December, the She. Shen (,+ %i. ) ?ubii: security Bureau
ren,eived a report from 4anshan (113- , 21w- ) that at that Moment two
unidentified submarines were lying at sea off banshan Island (113-36
22>s34 ; At 7 a,m., on 19 December the same Iwo submarine, were ;sef-n
off 'da-11i.ngti.ngtao 0-14- , 22 )'.
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movements of the Chinese Communist 1e, 2, and 3 Marine Divisions,
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the :Soviet Military Mission and. as head of the Central
aid South Air Defense S ?hool
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1. Cn 9 Jul -7 1951 the Chinese Communists sent WiT Chin -yon., head of the
second department of the Naval Bureau of General Affairs, CHIEN Pi-
yuan (Tye ;j) head of the staff department (sip: ) second section-,
PEI Tz lu hslu (' ; ) Politburo interpreter and tre.ns:l..ator,
and two hundred landng craft, each under five hundred tons, These
1 and ing craft were to be constructed at Dairen according to a previous
e.grer,)went between the Chinese Communists and Soviet supervisors.
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mation was inadverten y omitted from Pa;aagrap#t 1. Paragraph 1 should read:
On 9 Jury 1951 the Chinese Comnarists sent W, Chin-yen, head. of the second
department of the Naval Bureau of GoneIal. Affairs, CT?'IN Pi-yuan ( jam )
head of the staff department (sic) sLcon section, PSI T 'u hsitz f ),
Politburo interpreter and translator, and jw o Soviet a, vises Tore F~.it:~s t7
Dairen-by transport plane. The group carried blueprints and- plans for two
hundred landing craft each under five hundred tons.
These landing craft were
to be constructed aaat Dairen according to a previonas agreement between the
Chinese Communists and Soviet supervteors.
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