TOP SECRET It is also believed that a further ten vessels, including two destroyer escorts, five minesweepers, and one mine/net laying vessel, which were attached to the Nationalist Tsingtao Flotilla have defected to the Communists in North China. As the Communists gain control of main coastal ports, they may acquire a considerable quantity of naval stores, including ex-Japanese mines, a number of which are known to have come into Chinese Nationalist hands in 1945. 7. Admiral Kwei, C. in C. of the Nationalist Navy has established his H.Q.