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...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, but it seemed a rather tiny exploit to be boasting about. Most likely the cautious Communists were trying to sound out the specific U.S. intentions in Formosa Strait...
Face the Taunts. "Ah, yah," cried the women scornfully. "Why do you want to be with the losers?" Swarms of children pranced around the post, hooting and whooping derisively at the garrison. Some threw stones. A pretty young girl leaped forward from the crowd and slapped her belly. "Sons?" she taunted. "Our bodies will bear no sons for traitors." Some women bared their breasts at the troops to shame and disconcert them...
Then from somewhere behind the demonstrators, shots rang out. The beleaguered garrison fell into the Communist trap and fired in earnest. "Murderers, murderers!" the survivors screamed as they picked up their dead. Some among the soldiers who had fired, confused and shamed by what they had done, deserted...
...Clear the Lobbies." Added Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "What we need now is a working base and not a beleaguered garrison . . . We have to adapt our minds more and more to the conception that countries, wherever they are, do not like to have foreign troops on their soil . . . More and more we shall have to base ourselves upon our own strategic reserve here and our ability to fly it to whatever quarter it is needed...
...already infiltrated the French positions. The Communists have six divisions within 25 miles of Hanoi, and the French are moving stocks of arms and ammunition to the sea. There were reports that France had asked the U.S. and Britain whether they could provide enough shipping to evacuate the Delta garrison...