CHINA COAST TENSION
Communist Arms Build-Up
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 1. A major build-up of Communist forces is now reaching a peak along the whole coastline of China, the • Daily Express” said today. It makes a front of 2000 miles from Russia s Vladivostock in the north to the borders of Britain's Hong Kong in the south.
Intelligence reports accepted as ,n London, say there are <OOO aircraft on the many coastal airfields. More than half of them are jets.
The reports also indicate that Russia has reinforced her Far Eastern fleet at Vladivostock by at least 30 major warships.
American experts link this gathering of forces with the renev.-ed threat to the Chinese Nationalist-held island groups of Matsu and Quemoy. The islands lie within 10 miles of the Chinese Communist mainland. A Hong Kong message quotes Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the United Joint Chiefs of Staff, as saying that the exchanges now going on between the Chinese Nationalist and Communist forces in the Quemoy and Matsu areas off the Fukien mainland coast had "no more significance than those of last year.”
Admiral Radford is flying to Taipeh to confer with the Chinese Nationalist leader. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27856, 3 January 1956, Page 9
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