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Ports & Power. The Japanese were ready to spend money in order to make money. They gave Taipei, Formosa's capital, a government building which would do credit to most British colonies, developed deepwater ports at Keelung and Kaohsiung. Throughout the island Japanese engineers built 2,463 miles of railway, 11,300 miles of good road. They harnessed Formosa's short, swift-flowing rivers, built a large 300,000-kilowatt hydroelectric power station at Jihyuehu (Sun-Moon Lake). For other power sources, they worked Formosa's coal deposits, believed to total 400 million metric tons, and exploited...
Three days later, while Taipei crowds looked up and cheered and China's chief of staff, General Chou Chih-jou, literally jigged in delight at Hsinchu air base, six U.S. F80 Shooting Star jets streaked over from the Philippines. Also from the Philippines came Major General Howard M. Turner, commander of the U.S. Thirteenth Air Force, and from Tokyo came Brigadier General Alonzo P. Fox, Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Far East Command; they would make a more detailed survey, expedite U.S. aid, set up a liaison staff. Coordination would probably include a Nationalist armed forces training...
...There was a time during my stay in Formosa when I thought of murdering those active gentlemen, the buglers of Taipei. I stayed in a hostel near a Chinese army post. Naturally, the post has buglers. Chinese buglers are not to be compared with any others of my experience. They do not content themselves with blowing reveille in the morning and going away. At either five or six a.m., depending on local whim, they bugle their first notes of hail to the new morning. They do this in pairs, generally consisting of one accomplished bugler and one tyro. They then...
...skies over Formosa one day this week roared a U.S. C-54. It landed smoothly at Taipei's airfield. From the Bataan stepped General Douglas MacArthur. He was welcomed by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose determined face had over the years become almost as familiar to history as Douglas MacArthur's lofty scowl. MacArthur, accompanied by Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, had come to discuss the defenses of Formosa, which the U.S. is committed to guard against Red attack. Said MacArthur, shaking Chiang's hand: "How do you do, Generalissimo, it was nice...
GENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek receives no correspondents and grants no interviews. However, his views on issues of major interest are well known in Taipei-partly through Chinese officials who have his ear, partly through public statements, such as a speech on the Soviet role in Asia delivered July 3. From these and other sources the following summary of the Generalissimo's current views on questions of vital interest to the U.S. was obtained last week...