Chiang Calls For Defectors

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31187, 11 October 1966, Page 17

Chiang Calls For Defectors

(N Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) TAIPEH, October 10. President Chiang Kai-shek today called on Chinese to defect from the mainland and join Nationalist Chinese forces on Formosa to help destroy the Peking Government.

In a 6000-word message beamed to China on the eve of the double tenth—the nationalist National Day, October 10 —President Chiang promised that if Chinese Communists defected to the coastal areas and asked for support strong Nationalist forces would come to their rescue “within six hours.” The closest point between Formosa and China is about 100 miles across the Formosa Strait. “A Fatal Blow” President Chiang, who will be 79 at the end of October, said he hoped all anti-Mao Tse-tung elements on the mainland would co-operate with the people on Formosa to seize the right moment and “deal a fatal blow to the de-

spotic warlike traitor —Mao Tse-tung. “The mounting anti-Mao, anti-party and anti-Commun-ist uprisings of intellectuals and masses of freedom-loving people on the mainland show the days of Mao are numbered . ..,” he said. “Once you join the antiCommunist forces on Taiwan, you will be given the same position and rank you held in the Communist regime.”