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Word: yikiang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...rest and recuperation." With their wives, they were off on a pleasant round of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Misfire | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Psychological Explosion. It was no fault of Admirals Pride and Kivette that they were holidaying while Asia was burning. Months ago, the U.S. had decided that it would not defend such outlying islands as Yikiang and the Tachens. This policy was publicly reaffirmed last week by Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles in similar statements to the press. Said the President: "No military authority that I know of has tried to rate these small islands that are now under attack, or indeed the Tachens themselves, as an essential part of the defense of Formosa and of the Pescadores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Misfire | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...blows fell on Formosa, and on Chinese Nationalists everywhere, like hammer strokes. First there were the fall of Yikiang and the obvious threat to the Tachens, then the Dulles statement that the Tachens were not of strategic value and would not be protected by the U.S., then talk of a ceasefire, and the inference -quickly drawn by Asians-that Washington was headed toward neutralization of Formosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Gloom & Foreboding | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...There was a tang in the air and a stiff breeze; the water was choppy but not rough. A good day it was for yachting, a reporter in Taipei sardonically observed. There were plenty of surface craft in the sea off tiny (little more than a half square mile) Yikiang Island, but they were not yachts. The Chinese Communists were successfully invading Yikiang -their first combat seizure of a Nationalist-held island since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fall of Yikiang | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...irregulars"-guerrillas, fishermen and observers-in the Yikiang garrison had no air or sea protection. They had been repeatedly shelled from Communist-held Toumen, six miles away. At mid-morning on the day of the assault, the Reds began shelling the tiny island from two destroyers, four gunboats and a swarm of patrol boats. At noon 60 Red planes-Russian-built light bombers and fighter-bombers, with MIG jets for top cover-began plastering the Nationalists with 500-lb. bombs. Under this rain of fire, the garrison clung to its burrows; while they were holed up, the invaders came ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fall of Yikiang | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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