Meaning of Peikantang | Babel Free

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Synonym of Beigan (island)

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“A Defense Ministry communique said 40 Communist craft were sighted Tuesday off Peikantang, a tiny island in the Matsu group, but fled when the island's guns opened fire. The Matsus are off the Red port of Foochow, opposite the northern tip of Formosa.”

“The Reds may not be able to take Matsu but the lesser islands of Kaoteng or Peikantang seem less strong and their loss would put Matsu under artillery fire, making it hard to hold and even harder to supply.”

“In addition to the establishment of many army houses of prostitution at Peikantang to enable Chiang officers and men to victimize the wives and daughters of many deceased Chiang officers, and women from Taiwan who were forced to engage in prostitution, the Defense Ministry of the Chiang clique has also deceived a number of young women into joining a so-called "young women's service team," asking them to call upon combat units and pillboxes of the Chiang forces to sing reactionary and lewd songs for them.”

“The Nationalist Defense Ministry claimed Communist guns on the mainland coast were silenced by effective counterfire. By Nationalist count, the Reds fired 444 shells, of which 162 hit Matsu Island, 112 Peikantang Island and 170 landed in the sea.”

“Following the sporadic shelling launched against Peikantang on May 11, the Communist artillery units opposite Matsu fired again today a total of more than four hundred shells at Nankantang and Peikantang within one and a half hours, according to a communique issued by the Ministry of National Defense.”

“Chiao Shih, 44 feet high, lies about 1/2 mile southeastward of Ko-li, a 199-foot islet, that lies close off the south end of Pei-kan-t’ang Tao and is connected to it by a stoney spit.”

“"Kuanghua 6042", a fishing boat from Chiaotzu village of Peikantang on the Kuomintang-occupied Matsu Island of Fukien Province, sank near Heiyen Island after it developed engine trouble and struck a hidden reef while fishing on the afternoon of August 13.”

“At the end of August Eaton anchored at a group of three small islands off the coast of Fujian to take on fresh water, as the casks had not been refilled since leaving the Cape in April. Cuninghame calls these islands the Crocodile Islands, but he says the Chinese call them the ‘Pek-kin Islands’. These are the Matsu Islands, north east of Fuzhou, one of which is called Peikantang or Peikan Island.”

“Beigan was called “Beigantang” or “Changqi Island” in the early years. It is the second-largest island in Matsu, with the terrain that rises and falls sharply.”

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