[豬頭博論中的章節引言]
A fairly reliable Government source
later told us that 2000 gendarmes were first put ashore to control the Keelung
dock area, after which 8000 regular troops came off. Concurrently at Kaohsiung some 3000 troops
landed from the ship Hai Ping. With these troops came suitable equipment,
most of it of American origin. This was
China, now, but a hasty paint job did not hide the original, clearly-marked lettering on the vehicles.
Was this to be the American answer to Formosan pleas for help?
That evening after dinner we sat
discussing with friends the dread implication of the word from Keelung. Suddenly the night silence was
shattered. The rattle of gunfire could
be heard not far away on the boulevard leading into the city from the
north. Soon thereafter – a matter of minutes
– Nationalist Army trucks rolled slowly along the road before our house, and
from them a hail of machine-gun fire was directed at random into the darkness,
ripping through windows and walls and ricocheting in the black alleyways.
– George H. Kerr, Formosa
Betrayed (1965:292).
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