Peikantang

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.

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

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.

1955 March 30, Fred Hampton, “Red Attack Being Awaited on Matsu Isle”, in The Gettysburg Times, volume 53, number 76, Gettysburg, PA, →OCLC, page 12, column 2; republished as Matsu Chief Sees Attack At Any Time, volume 76, number 134, East Liverpool, Ohio: East Liverpool Review, 30 March 1955, page 1, column 4

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.

1958 August 11 [1958 August 8], “Matsu is Hell on Earth for People, Army”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volume 155, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page AAA 18

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.

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

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.

1959 July 1, “Chronology”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021