17. Vice President and Premier Chen Cheng disclosed today that the new Communist peace rumors, which reappeared in Hongkong and Malaya, was nothing but an old ruse. "Neither the Chinese government nor any individuals in it have paid any attention to this kind of Red trick," the Vice President said. "As a matter of fact," he added, "this is not the first time that the Chinese Communists have done so .... But all their efforts have availed them nothing."
At the invitation of General Maxwell Taylor, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Peng Meng-chi, Commander of Chief of the Chinese Army, arrived in Washington from Taipei for a one-month tour of military installations in the United States:
19. Chief of General Staff General Wang Shu-ming, on behalf of President Chiang Kai-shek, decorated former Kinmen garrison commander General Hu Lien with the "Order of Precious Tripod" in recognition of his successful conduct of the Battle of Kinmen.
The Republic of China presented six complete sets of the "History of 25 Dynasties of China" to four South Korean universities and two research institutes.
20. In an exclusive interview with United Press International in Paris, Foreign Minister Huang Shao-ku said that the Chinese Communists was engaged in a massive dumping operation designed to throw the whole trade pattern of Asia out of gear. He also reminded the West that he had found Europeans not aware of the real situation regarding the Communist trade policy.
22. The Kinmen Defense Command announced today that the retaliatory fire of the Republic of China had inflicted heavy damages on the Communists since the beginning of the gun duel on August 23. The Kinmen artillery men destroyed 213 Red field pieces, 86 gun positions, 21 emplacements, 17 ammunition and oil depots, one observation post, one radar station, 96 trucks, eight ack ack guns, four barracks, one weather station; sank 76 Red supplies vessels and damaged five more, and destroyed a truck-parking lot, KDC reported. During the same period, the Reds fired a total of 575,636 rounds of high explosives on the Kinmen group, which killed 101 civilians on offshore islands, while 286 more were wounded, 105 seriously.
23. The five-member Moslem Mission from Malaya left here for Kuala Lumpur by way of Hongkong after a ten-day goodwill visit in free China. Upon departure, the mission members were profuse in their thanks for all the warm welcome and hospitality shown by Chinese Moslems and government officials here. They expressed the belief that there would be a bright prospect for development of trade relations between Malaya and the Republic of China.
24. President Chiang Kai-shek honored Vice Admiral H. D. Riley, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Pacific Command, at a tea party in the afternoon. The Chinese Chief Executive and the American Admiral talked for 30 minutes on problems of mutual concern.
26. The Council for United States Aid disclosed today that the U.S. government had decided to extend US$70,000,000 economic aid to the Republic of China for the fiscal year 1959.
28. President Chiang Kai-shek received Lieutenant General V.E. Megee, Commanding General of the U.S. Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, in the morning today at the Presidential mansion.
29. Mr. Rosendo Canto, Cuba's first ambassador to the Republic of China, arrived Taipei with his family from Manila.
The new Venezuelan Minister Luiz Colmenares presented his letter of credence to President Chiang Kai-shek at 10:00 a.m.
30. An unprecedented atomic defense exercise was staged by the Taiwan Garrison Command this morning at Taipei Union Stadium to acquaint the people with the warfare in the nuclear era.
Dec. 1. Cuban Ambassador Rosendo Canto Hernandez presented his credentials to President Chiang Kai-shek in the, morning today. He pledged that Cuba would back up free China in her fight for peace and justice.
2. Mr. Li Yuan-chuen, the Chinese-American rocket expert, arrived in Taipei in the afternoon with his American wife for a series of lectures during his two-week stay here as guest of the Ordnance Research Institute.
4. Currently touring the Far East, Mrs. Nancy Eileen Buttfield, Australian Senator of the Liberal Party, came here for a 3-day visit.
5. Mr. Ho Chung-yen, director-general of Posts of the Ministry of Communications, reported at a government press conference that, according to the international post office association many phases of the Taiwan postal administration rank first in Asia; if not in the world.
6. The government announced its immediate lift of an earlier ban on the export of citronella oil.
9. The year's biggest forest fire, which razed 203 hectares of forest land and caused an estimated NT$10 million in property losses, was brought under complete control. The fire was started on December 7 and spread to four North Taiwan counties.
A 12-member Chinese economic goodwill mission headed by Mr. T. K. Chang, board chairman of the Bank of Taiwan, left Taipei for a two-week visit to the Philippines.
10. Returning from a 40-day tour to the Vatican and eight other countries, Foreign Minister Huang Shao-ku declared free China's determined stand during the Taiwan Strait crisis had won the sympathy and understanding of the leaders and peoples of the free nations. He also told the press that international Communism would gain no more ground in the free world as the peoples in the democratic nations had begun to see through Communist intrigues.
Li Yung-hsin, chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission, reported in the Legislative Yuan that more than 300,000 Tibetans had taken part in the revolution against the Communist regime.
12. Dr. Kiang Yi-seng, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the government was in principle in favor of a Northeast Asian alliance.
13. In urgent session, the "central committee" of the Chinese Communist Party decided to replace Mao Tse-tung as chairman or head of the Peiping regime, according to a report from underground agents.
15. President Chiang Kai-shek personally decorated nine top-ranking American officers, including Vice Admiral Roland N. Smoot, commander of the U.S. Taiwan Defense Command, Major General Leander L. Doan, chief of MAAG and commander of U.S. ground forces in Taiwan, etc., for their brilliant leadership and outstanding contribution during the Taiwan Strait crisis.