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ATIS INTERROGATION REPORT NO. 4391

FIELD REPORT (ADVATIS 0060)　24 October 1950

PW is a suffering from epilepsy and feverish. Very willing to be interrogated but moody and dull. Estimation of distance and length was very poor. PW report of proposed bridge across river is considered reliable.

TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION

RAILROAD　　　HONGUI (洪義)

PVT　　　　　　 Nov 49 – Jan 50

PW was not working in Aug 49 when the townspeople of KYONGWON (慶源) were ordered by North Korean government to furnish workers to build railroads.

(Hearsay) PW heard the railroad building commenced about Sep 1949 and was to be built somewhere from KOREA to RUSSIA.

PW went as a replacement for a farmer who was too busy to go and who paid him 2000 won.

The railroad was a line to be built across TOU MAN CH’IANG (豆滿江) from HONGUI (洪義) to RUSSIA.

PW worked on a ground leveling gang. Three shifts worked day and night 8 hr per shift. About 100 constituted a gang of Korean workmen. The work was under supervision of Korean RR officials, changing almost daily.

When PW finished work the ground was prepared up to near the river bank. The railroad was finished about 1, 2km towards the river from HONGUI (洪義). The railbed was levelled and mixed with locally gathered pebbles.

The RR gang of about 50 men laid the ties and rails. Worked in shifts day and night.

PW knew the rail ties came from the MUSAN (茂山) hills where there is a big forest. PW did not know where rails and other supplies came from except that they came by rail.

At the river bank a great supply of rails, ties and steel was piled up, PW did not see any sign of work across the river. The river bank is gradual with mixture of gravel.

PW read in the newspaper that the steel bridge was completed. PW had a brother working for the railroad and also heard from him that the bridge was completed. (See Sketch B for area where railroad was built)

For the Commanding Officer:

AREA OF RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION ON THE KOREAN, MANCHURIAN RUSSIAN BORDER