U.S. NATIONALS IN FORMOSA

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26122, 26 May 1950, Page 7

U.S. NATIONALS IN FORMOSA

Women And Children Urged To Leave WARNING FROM CONSUL (Rec. 10 p.m.) TAIPE (Formosa). May 24. The United States Consul-General to-day circulated notice among United Sts es nationals suggesting their evacuc . ■ t of Formosa while transportation v-?.< a. ailable. if there was no necesi s.; for their remaining. U'.e notice urged women and chilc t to leave the island. said that after the Nationalist v .rawai from Hainan and the Chu- | s .1 islands “it was possible that host ’ s mi. ht spread to points hitherto I —uL” Hong Kong message says that the C . se Nationalists to-day beat off anr .' Communist attempt to land on f-Rii islands in the Pearl river es- • within five miles of Hong Kong Communist flotilla of small craft s ked the Nationalist base on the I. .•.'.■am group early this morning, but Nationalist gunboats and island battej s replied with heavy fire. .’.:e leading Communist craft, about the size of a destroyer escort, and a snail gunboat were hit and set on fire, after which the Communists, pursued by the Nationalists, withdrew across the estuary toward the Chinese coast rear Portuguese Macao. Some Rationalist buildings on the Lapsam Group were set on fire.