Word: swatow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...plenty of troops, artillery and small craft for the job. What they do not have is air cover. Last week the Reds completed a jet air base at Luchiao (opposite the Tachens) and promptly moved 40 MIGs onto it. Far to the south, Nationalists detected another base abuilding near Swatow, which may not be complete for perhaps six months. But when it is, it will provide Communist jet air cover, not only for Quemoy and Matsu, but over the whole Formosa Strait. Then it would not be the offshore islands which were in danger; it would be Formosa itself...
...once a haven for pirates who preyed on coastal shipping out of Hong Kong. While Chiang's forces hold it, the Communists cannot use Amoy, their best port on the southern coast. In 1949 the Reds tried to take the island with 15,000 men in junks from Swatow. The Nationalists beat them off and burned their junks. The Communists tried again, with 700 men, the following year, but this force got lost in bad weather, and Chiang's men captured 300 seasick Reds...
...Majesty's Prime Minister Clement Attlee says, there is a "new China." There is also a new Butterfield & Swire. Recently the company advertised a ship scheduled to sail from Hong Kong and arrive at Swatow on the south China coast by April n. Red Chinese authorities, in a huff because they had given permission for the ship to dock on April 13 only, refused to advance the entry date. What was more, they demanded a public apology from the company...
...Communists swept over the China mainland in 1949, Mao Tse-tung's regime promised moderation, tolerance and forgiveness. Last week tolerance was lost in the mounting clamor of a great Red terror. Mao Tse-tung's regime announced the execution of 120 "counterrevolutionaries" at Canton, 56 at Swatow, 89 at Hankow, 28 at Kweilin. In scenes reminiscent of the tumbril-and-guillotine days of the French Revolution, the Communists turned the spectacle of death into public carnivals, with music and dances...