Word: formosae
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...question before the tent was what the military commanders of both sides should recommend to their governments for joint discussion, after a truce is effected. Hitherto the Communists have been demanding that any settlement of the Korean question must also include settlement of Formosa and U.N. recognition of Red China. Now Nam simply proposed that a high-level political conference be held, within three months of signing the armistice, "by representatives appointed respectively to settle . . . the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea, a peaceful settlement of the Korean question, et cetera...
...cool moon shone through the clouds, a British steamer, the Wing Sang, slid comfortably through the calm waters of Formosa Strait. She was on her regular run from Hong Kong to Formosa. The ship's 78 passengers were dressing for dinner or sipping cocktails. A Chinese lad of ten raced wide-eyed through the closing pages of Treasure Island...
...lifeboat came back with about $1,100 (raised by passing the hat among the passengers), and with one of the Wing Sang's three American passengers: Edward Stansbury, deputy chief of the U.S. Information Service on Formosa. In the gleam of a flashlight, the pirates counted the money and grumbled that it was not enough. Back went the lifeboat for more, and returned with approximately...
Next day the Wing Sang arrived at Formosa, with a few shell holes in her hull, and two casualties-a Chinese crewman who had been wounded in the knee by a pirate bullet, and the ten-year-old reader of Treasure Island, who had become violently sick at his stomach from seeing the real thing. The Wing Sang's agents, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., promised to repay the passengers who had chipped in ransom money. British, U.S. and Chinese Nationalist ships kept a lookout for a handsome buccaneer, wearing brown leather gloves and a gold wristwatch, who made short...
...Formosa...