Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1950 — Page 9

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“MONDAY, NOV. 27, 1950 Free China Fights Back—No..1

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minutes later. He had work to do.

a killer. — a , RAVED UT IT these things. Tachen has been his flag. A few flew the Red flag. 1/21st Army. - domain for two years and from was told they had just arrived. i. Grand_entertaino family." on his own private war against with reports. Some brought foo bin Patrick. STAR the Communists. Gen. Wong has One was unloading ammunition. oro etrrek, N “= asked no quarter, he has given . : ance Tonight = none. : Column 1s His Own g = When the Communists tried fo = Gen. OW 8:30 2% win him over with money and Taitho when I came aboard at churia. : 4 position—they once offered him Keelung, northern port of For)EC. 12 the vice premiership of the mosa. He told me he was return-

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Independent Leader Carries War to Reds From Island Outpost

- Gen. Wong, Pirate, Magistrate, Killer, . Asks No Quarter, Gives None in Conflict

By JIM G. LUCAS, Serippe- -Howard Staff Writer

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He had lived on Tachen afl His Committee to Study’ life. His home overlooking the)

{harbor was the biggest in town | Educational Problems

{His word was law. Until 1943 he| A committee is being formed

was a shipowner and merchant. consider the problems con-| 33 s erchant. yronting public education in In-|

Since then he has done little but giana All Indiana organizations ifight, first against the Japs and interested in education are asked {then against the Communists./to sed representatives to the Three times the Japs drove him meeting at 10 a. m. Dec. 20 in the! {out of Tachen; three times he Lincoln Hotel. ireturned. The Communists have The announcement ‘was made {never been able to dislodge him. by Willlam T. Kinder, chairman!’

two radio stations. Mainland Commission, which is making ar-| agents are in daily comtact with rangements for the meeting.

—The Chinese navy ship Taiho him, relaying reports about the The group, to be called the In-| dropped anchor at Tachen at den and Gen. Wong was ashore five Reds. diana Advisory Committee on

| “The general went to. a window mqucation, will discuss new pro-|

He didn’t look like a pirate. His shy smile and bland face and and pointed across the straits. , qs relating to education. his age—he's only 36-—wer- deceptive. For that matter Gen. Wong > didn’t look like a major general, a a magistrate, a robber baron, or|DNave two armies—the 21st and Safe, Vending Machines

There he said the Communists

{23d. Facing Tachen he-explained

But Gen. Wong Hsing was all sampans fiying the Nationalist| Was the 61st Division of= the Looted in Service Station

Thieves obtained $35 from a} Some of its officers are on his safe and an undetermined amount

f= this island outpost he has carried Some brought Nationalist spies Payroll, he said. ~ The Com- of money from vending machines 4. munists’ have. 20,000 soldiers and in the Standard Service Station,

{200 motor junks on the Chekis ang 2969 Northwestern Ave., yester-

coast. They control che coast, but day. little else. Inland, many of the Harry Licking, owner, re-

Wong had been on the Pest men have been sent to Man- ported the station was entered by,

Province of Chekiang- the an-'ing to Tachen with 30 tons of swer was another raid on one of rice and 600 cotton uniforms for their coastal towns. When he his troops. It was not enough, he needs rice or guns he simply goes protested mildly, but it would do. over and takes them. He has Anything he lacked he was sure killed thousands of Red soldiers he could pick up at Sungman or

while losing hundreds of his own. Haimen, Red-held ports across

breaking a side- ‘window.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Proudly, Gen. Wong showed me of the Indiana School Study |

I followed him ashore an hour the straits from Tachen. The RSON later. Across the straits I could Chinese navy has been SheutralSensational see the coast of China. Tachen's ized by President Truman's order w 1951 harbor was full of junks and last June, but Gpfi. Wong's 36th

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As a matter of fact, he said,|

Sungman lasti

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Fifty of Gen. Wong's men were | waiting when I clambered ashore.

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