Tung

… words to be spoken with the understanding, that I may teach others also, than myriads of words, in a tung. ... In the law, it hath been written, That, with other tungs and other lips I will speak to this people, and then they will not hear ...

If they've got anything to say which they want you to hear, let 'em say it out; if not, hold their tungs.

English has strength, simplicity, conciseness, capacity for taking words freely from other tungs, and best of all has the greatest literature the world has yet produced.

A U.S. military plane intruded into China's air space over the area of Tung Island of the Hsisha Islands in Kwangtung Province between 16:00 hours and 16:03 hours on February 9. A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorised, in relation to this military provocation by the U.S. military plane, to issue the 482nd serious warning.

“From 1840 hours on March 18, 1972 to 0935 hours on March 20, 1972, one U.S. warship, the George K. MacKenzie intruded into Chinese territorial waters near Tung Island, 16°, 14', 6” north, 112°, 43', 48” east, off the Hsi Sha Islands, Kwantung^([sic – meaning Kwangtung]) Province, China.

Every island in Hsisha is a veritable treasure island. The Tung Island is the home of large flocks of boobies. As these birds feed on fish, the fishermen are sure to get to the site of large shoals by following the direction of their flight.

According to Japanese sources, Peking has maintained some sort of naval bases on Woody (Yung-hsing) Island and Lincoln (Tung) Island in the eastern Paracels since at least 1958. Several patrol vessels and supply ships were sighted there in mid-1971, along with shore-based radar installations; and the flotilla that clashed with the Vietnamese in 1974 numbered seven ships, including Komar-class gunboats equipped with Styx missiles.

Peking had maintained a military presence on two of the Paracel Islands since at least 1958. In mid-1971, several Communist Chinese patrol boats and supply ships were sighted in the vicinity, and there was evidence of the construction of radar and ship-servicing facilities on Yung-hsing and Tung islands. In September 1973, the Saigon government put the Spratly Islands under the jurisdiction of the Phuoc Tuy Province of South Vietnam. This preempted any claim by any other power to the waters between the Spratlys and the continental baseline—effectively including the Paracels under South Vietnam’s jurisdiction.

1. The U.S. side has made a full investigation of the incidents that the Chinese side brought to its attention on March 24, 1972.² The U.S. side has verified that the ship and aircraft in question on the dates cited went within twelve nautical miles of the Paracel Islands but at no time moved closer to the Islands than three nautical miles. The ship and aircraft were conducting surveillance on an infiltration trawler engaged in carrying contraband in the vicinity of Lincoln (Tung) Island in the Paracels. In the interest of U.S.-Chinese relations the U.S. side has issued instructions that henceforth a distance of at least twelve nautical miles should be maintained from the Paracel Islands. This is without prejudice to the U.S. positions either on the territorial sea question or the various claims to the Paracel Islands.

Sitting on a driftwood bench near the guano-spattered tents that are the biologists' summer homes and with downy tern chicks waddling by her feet, Dr. Cao said she had spent the past three years studying red-footed boobies on tropical Dong Island in the Xisha Archipelago of the South China Sea.