'China Will Free Formosa’

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30976, 4 February 1966, Page 13

'China Will Free Formosa ’

(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright)

HONG KONG, February 3,

China today threatened “sooner or later to square accounts with United States imperialism for its forcible occupation of Formosa.”

“The Chinese people will liberate the island without fail,” the Peking “People’s Daily” said in an article callng Jor vigilance against the use of Formosa by the United States as a base for expanding the Vietnam war.

The writer, believed to be a high-ranking official, was commenting on the recent transfer of Cl3O Hercules transport planes to the Kung Kuan air base on Formosa to support the war. “Base For Aggression”

After having forcibly occupied the Chinese territory of Formosa for a long time, he said, the United States had now gone still further by converting it into “a base for aggression against Vietnam and for expanding the war. “This is an outrageous provocation, not only against the but also against tie Chinese people. It cannot but arouse our great indignation.”

As Scheduled.—The French H-bomb tests in the Pacific will go on as scheduled in July, the vice-chairman of France’s National Defence Committee, Mr Pierre Clostermann, said today.—Canberra, February 3.