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Sighting Near Tachen Group (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) TAIPEH, October 4. Nationalist warships combed seas near the Tachen Islands, the National-ist-held group, 240 miles south of Shanghai, after an unidentified submarine was reported to have been sighted, according to usually reliable sources. The report said a submarine had been sighted off Yi Kan Shan Island in the groups The warships’ search was unsuccessful. Aborigines in the mountainous regions of Formosa have been trained to deal with enemy paratroopers, a Nationalist Defence Ministry spokesman, Lieutenant-General Chang Yi Ting, said today. If the Chinese Communists attempted an air invasion, the hardy Formosan natives would be ready for them, he said.
Paratroopers dropped inland who attempted to take refuge in the mountains would be met with a “barrage of automatic fire,” he said.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27472, 5 October 1954, Page 13
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