One murky night last week a Chinese Nationalist convoy steamed west from the Formosa Strait's Pescadores Islands toward the China coast. It consisted of a creaking, World War II-type LSM, two small gunboats and a minesweeper. For two nights in a row it had turned back in the face of Communist gunfire before accomplishing its mission: delivering supplies and 400 Chinese Nationalist reinforcements to the island of Quemoy. This time some 30 newsmen and photographers were also aboard, among them TIME Correspondent Jim Bell. Bell's report:
By midnight we were approaching the island and...
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