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ATIS INTERROGATION REPORT NO. 4316

FIELD REPORT (ADVATIS - 0045)　23 October 1950

PW was not too intelligent and not very observing. Information obtained only after considerable probing. Reliability, fair.

7 Dec 26 - PW was born in HOLUNG (和龍), MANCHURIA. He attended 4yr Primary School.

Jan 42 - PW was employed as a cook at a coal mine.

Aug 45 - Jul 49 - PW was engaged in farming.

7 Jul 49 - PW was inducted into the Manchurian Army and assigned to the CCF 5th Div at CHANGCH’UN (長春).

24 Jul 49 - The entire 5th Div arrived in NANAM, KOREA.

COAL MINES:

LUNG-CHINT’SUN (42°47'N 129°26'E)　Obs: Jan 42 - Aug 45

Observation: PW observed the coal mines while working as a mine cook, from the period Jan 42 to Aug 45.

Location: The coal mine was located roughly 48 km S of LUNGCHINT’SUN, on the N slope of a mountain separating MANCHURIA from KOREA.

Description: This coal mine was discovered-in 1932 and developed by the Japanese.

The coal vein was located on a slope of a mountain, so the coal was mined by digging horizontal shafts into the side of the mountain. There were 12 such shafts in this mine. Each shaft was equipped with narrow guage tracks. Electric locomotives were installed in two of the shafts while in the other shafts coal lorries were pulled by mules.

The coal mined here was transported 20km to the north by overhead bucket conveyers to the RR running between HOLUNG and LUNG-CHINGT’SUN

PW heard that the coal mined here was high grade bituminous which he heard was suited for manufacture of synthetic oil. As of Aug 45, 144 tons of coal was mined here every 24 hours. Destination of coal was not known.

The mine was operated in three (3) 8 hour shifts with about 1,500 men on each shift. PW believed this mine was operated on the same scale after Chinese Communist domination.

PW heard that the electrical power to this plant was obtained from the SINUIJU Hydro-Electric power Plant in KOREA.

For the Commanding Officer: