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Died. Ralph Ansel Ward, 76, veteran (50 years) missionary to the Chinese. Methodist Bishop of Hong Kong, president (1925-27) of Foochow's Anglo-Chinese College, onetime resident Bishop at Chengtu (1937-41) and at Shanghai. World War II prisoner of the Japanese; in Hong Kong...
...protected from conquest and annexation. Drawing the line, however, over two tiny outposts at swimming distance from mainland China is tragically inane. American diplomats should pressure Chiang to withdraw his coastal forces to Formosa and concede to the Communists the use of the now bottled-up Amoy and Foochow harbors, if Mao suspends military activities. At present, though, Chiang's blockading of Amoy and Foochow is an act of war equivalent to the recent Communist counter-blockade of Quemoy...
...mainland that the U.S. does not intend to let them build up jet bases on the mainland opposite Formosa without providing an effective counter-defense. Now within range of the Matador are new Red jet bases in the Shanghai-Canton-Hankow triangle and the coastal bases of Foochow, Amoy and Swatow, on the mainland 100 miles across the Strait of Formosa. Three days after the announcement, Red artillery units on the mainland opened up on the offshore island of Little Quemoy with the heaviest bombardment in months, as a way of showing Communist displeasure...
...corroborating intelligence from top-secret sources. On the China mainland facing Quemoy, the Reds are moving into revetted positions heavy artillery of 155 mm. and up. There are some 250 observable positions along a semicircle at point-blank ranges of from 2½ to five miles. At Foochow, the jump-off point for a Matsu invasion, the buildup is also apparent...
Some of the enemy troops that had been on the mainland across from the Tachens have now moved south, in spite of repeated Nationalist air attacks on their junks. Red surface craft have moved south of Wenchow, and are operating from small ports between Wenchow and Foochow. The Communists have a jet airfield at Foochow-across from Matsu-and can now ship fuel from Shanghai to Foochow without much trouble from Nationalist air. Washington believes that when fuel stocks at the Foochow base are sufficiently built up, Red MIGs will appear there...