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...first time since the "vest-pocket war" began off China's coast, the Reds last week used airplanes against Chiang Kai-shek's island bastions. Nine Russian-built, twin-engined bombers appeared over the Nationalist-held Tachens (200 miles north of Formosa and 15 miles from the Chekiang coast) and dropped more than 40 bombs, killing five persons. Previously, during the September skirmish around Quemoy, the Reds had used artillery only, and Washington concluded that the Communists were exercising prudence to make sure that air power did not tangle with the U.S. Seventh Fleet. Apparently, the Communists...
Last week the Peking bullyboys -according to their own account -carried off a small. Commando-type raid of Nationalist-held Quemoy, a 70-sq.-mi. bastion (not part of the Pescadores) that lies off the port city of Amoy, only four or five miles from the mainland. Quemoy bristles with Nationalist troops, is said to be heavily fortified with concrete pillboxes, artillery and interlocking fields of machine-gun fire. Peking claimed that a party of 40 Red raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei...
...question remained: Which Nationalist-held islands, other than Formosa and the Pescadores, would the U.S. defend? Washington did not say. It was assumed that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were deciding that right now; in order to keep the Reds guessing, they might not make their decisions public...
Also, Admiral Felix Stump, U.S. Navy commander in chief in the Pacific, turned up in Taipei, having inspected the Nationalist fleet and Nationalist-held Tachen Island. Asked if the Seventh Fleet's role would be purely defensive, the admiral said: "No commander likes to sit back and wait. Sometimes you have to go out and start shooting...
...Eyes. In 1947 he went back to South China, began teaching Chinese peasants to operate U.S. tractors. "In Nationalist-held territory," he told the Senators last week, "our work was disappointing. The land belonged to the largest landowners . . . ordinary folk went hungry." On UNRRA orders, Hinton was sent across the battle lines to Communist-held Hopei. Suddenly, even the sun seemed to shine more brightly in his eyes...