Formosa Straits
Sil-,—An American White House statement refers to the “unprovoked military action” of the Chinese Government in attacking Quemoy and Matsu. But a cable of September 4 informed us that Nationalists had put 200 agents ashore on the communist mainland since June, 1956. These agents were used for sabotage and subversion in China. What country can allow such action to go on indefinitely? And from a cable, dated September 10, we learn that the important Chinese port of Amoy is blockaded by the Nationalists. If that is not provocation, what is; quite apart from the shipping of a third of the Nationalists’ forces to these islands. I hope that New Zealand is not going to be drawn into the defence of such points of irritation and provocation.—Yours, etc., OBSERVER. September 11, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28690, 13 September 1958, Page 3
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