The best educated American guess is that Chiang has 100,000 effective combat soldiers. Generally these troops could hold Formosa and even Hainan. Telling of his visit to Chinmen Island off Amoy only two weeks after the Communists landed 10,000 troops there, he said: "Although the Communists landed behind as well as in front of the Nationalists, the defenders fought back and with reinforcements, destroyed the Communist invaders. They killed 3,000 and captured 6,000-plus enough equipment to arm in full all the Nationalist troops on Chinmen, only 60 per cent of whom had firearms, and two divisions on Formosa as well."
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She had been troubled with demons for some years and they really began to bother her when her son wrote from the off-shore island of Chinmen of his fear from the noise of exploding shells from Communist China.
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At the sunset of May 28, the Chinmen County Council of Taiwan Province passed a joint resolution adopted by the county government and "congress" that a civil channel would be opened to accept the donations from the Chinese motherland the materials for the prevention and protection against atypical pneumonia.
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It was as if she could see all the way across the Taiwan Straits to Chinmen harbour on the opposite shore, where the mainland fishing boats sometimes took shelter from the typhoons.
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