Citations:Peikantang

English citations of Peikantang

• 1954 September 30, “Nationalist Forces Rout 40 Red Boats”, in The Washington Post and Times Herald‎^[1], volume 77, number 299, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

  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.

• 1959 May 18, “Red Chinese Open Firing on Matsus”, in The Washington Post and Times Herald‎^[2], volume 82, number 164, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 5:

  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.

• 1974 August, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly supplement 3‎^[3], British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →OCLC, page 4:

  Matsu Island fishermen rescued (Text) 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 […]

• 2007, Jane Kilpatrick, “The first collector”, in Gifts from the Gardens of China: The Introduction of Traditional Chinese Garden Plants to Britain 1698-1862‎^[4], Frances Lincoln Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:

  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.