Press info reads: - Red Shells Hit Hospital on Quemoy
Chinese nationalist soldiers view hole made by communist chinese artillery shell near center of 40-foot red cross atop a hospital building on Quemoy Island in first week of September. On Sept. 8 the reds resumed artillery attack on nationalist-held Quemoy Islands after 2 1/2-day lull. The wounded had been evacuated from the hospital the day before but some of the staff remaining there were wounded and a nurse was killed in the shelling. 9.8.58.
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict that took place between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). In this conflict, the PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China (in the Taiwan Strait) to "liberate" Taiwan from the Chinese Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT); and to probe the extent of the United States defense of Taiwan's territory. A naval battle also took place around Dongding Island when the ROC Navy repelled an attempted amphibious landing by the PRC Navy.
U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter (1959-1961) is said to have later referred to the conflict as "the first serious nuclear crisis."
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