OCCUPATION OF TACHENS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27584, 15 February 1955, Page 13

OCCUPATION OF TACHENS

Communist Troops Go Ashore

Press Association— Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, February 14. Marines from Communist China swarmed ashore from landing-crafts and motor torpedo boats on to the T achen Islands yesterday while MIG jet-fighters whistled overhead, Russell Spurr, in Peking for the “Daily Express,” reported today.

Ihe colonel commanding the Communist marines hoisted an embroidered Red battle standard and engineers started digging out the mines and exploding the booby-traps which the Nationalists left in the wreckage of dynamited defences and charred and deserted villages.

„ Ch ? na I J ews AKCnc - v reported that the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army” today liberated Tachen, Yushan ftnd Pishan Islands off the Chekiang coast.

The agency said that all the enemyoccupied islands off the Chekiang coast were now liberated, except the south-ern-most, which is Nanchishan Island. .. recent Communist military action m liberating Yikiangshan had placed Nationalist troops in the Tachens in a more and more unfavourable position, the agency said. .. ’ They, began fleeing under cover of toe United States armed forces on February 7, after pillaging and razing houses of Tachen population. The liberation of the Tachens has created favourable conditions for the liberation of Formosa and other coastal islands,” the agency added.