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...shopping and social events. While the admirals shopped and sipped, the Chinese Communists were shooting their way to within hailing distance of the Seventh Fleet. Boldly, the Reds crushed all Nationalist Chinese opposition on Yikiang Islet, 250 miles northwest of Formosa, then poised for an attack on the Tachen Islands eight miles closer to Formosa (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Also, Admiral Felix Stump, U.S. Navy commander in chief in the Pacific, turned up in Taipei, having inspected the Nationalist fleet and Nationalist-held Tachen Island. Asked if the Seventh Fleet's role would be purely defensive, the admiral said: "No commander likes to sit back and wait. Sometimes you have to go out and start shooting...
...Nationalists and Communists have recently fought air and sea skirmishes around the Nationalist-held Tachen islands off the coast of Chekiang, which provide Chiang's forces with a base for harassment of Communist shipping...