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...Korea, offered the option, 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war (out of 20,000) refused to return to their homes and families in Red China, chose Formosa instead. ¶When the Nationalists evacuated the Tachen Islands off the coast of Chekiang province in 1955, the islands' civilian populace was given the choice of evacuation to Formosa or acceptance of Communist rule. Of the islands' 18,500 inhabitants, exactly 19 chose to remain and await the Communist administration...
...through the night, artillery pounded the beach, the road crossings and the Nationalists' artillery positions. At 4 a.m. Columnist Joe Alsop and I headed down to the beach to catch a plane back to Formosa. Two rounds struck within a quarter of a mile, one jolted us from only 150 yards away. At dawn, as our plane taxied in, the Red batteries came alive, and 20 rounds smacked in. Geysers spouted from the sea, and two holes were blasted in the airstrip. On signal, we scrambled out of our ditch and aboard the plane. Minutes later we were over...
...started his tour of Southeast Asia when British plainclothesmen nabbed him in Malaya for asking searching questions of a British naval officer at the bar in Singapore's Cockpit Hotel. The embarrassed police quickly established that asking questions was Choi's business; he chuckled and headed for Formosa. Early in September Choi was one of the first newsmen to hit the beaches of beleaguered Quemoy, safely wading ashore under a heavy artillery barrage only to suffer a severely bruised hip when his jeep rammed a truck...
...Back in Formosa, Choi was packed off to recuperate at Peitow, a sulphurous spa near Taipei. There Choi woke up one morning to find he was paralyzed from the hips down. He telephoned a friend at Taipei's Friends of China Club. "I'm at Peitow, and I'm paralyzed," he said, and added-in his awareness that Peitow is a famed carousing place: "Please don't laugh...
TOKYO--Red China Monday ordered a week's halt in the bombardment of the Nationalist-held offshore islands in Formosa Strait. The Communists said the move was designed to let supplies reach the besieged islanders "on condition that there be no American escort...