Citations:Erhtan

English citations of Erhtan

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• 1958 September 12, “War in Asia: Reds to Push to Edge”, in U.S. News & World Report‎^[1], volume XLV, number 11, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34, column 2:

  Little Quemoy is a mountain of tunneled rock between the larger island and the mainland. Chief among the outer defenses of these two are the tiny Tan Islands—Tatan, Erhtan and a still-smaller islet. Control of the Tans, which may be the Chinese Reds first objective, would give them a means of tightening the blockade of the Quemoys still further.

• 1962, DeWitt S. Copp, “The Mudcats”, in The Odd Day‎^[2], William Morrow and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

  On Erhtan island, two hundred feet above the dark waters of Amoy's outer bay, Company Commander Captain Chun Hua Tang stood listening to the same sound that had stopped the fisherman Go-sze Yuan in his escape attempt.

• 1966, 中華醫學雜誌‎^[3], volume 13, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 158:

  The whole Kinmen island complex was divided into 7 operation areas, namely, Tatan, Erhtan, Small Kinmen, and Kinchen-Kinshan, Kinning, Kinhu and Kinsa on Kinmen.

• 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development‎^[4], volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 303, column 1:

  Tatan and Erhtan are two small islands in the sea southwest of Kinmen. […] A contingent of some 30 Communist troops tried to land at Erhtan, but were disarmed by Government defenders.

• 2003 October 4, Brian Hsu, “Coast guard not ready to take over Kinmen islands”, in Taipei Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2003, Taiwan News, page 4‎^[6]:

  The six islands in the Kinmen group include Tatan, Erhtan, Menghuyu, Tungting, Peiting and Shihyu, which are scheduled to be demilitarized and opened for tourism early next year.