tungsha

name

1. Synonym of Pratas.

   “Reports were common of a Sino-British agreement for British co-operation in the economic development of South China, including British financing of a railway in Hainan, the establishment of an airdrome on Tungsha Island southeast of Hongkong, an oil depot in the Sesha Islands southwest of Hainan, and the development of mines in South China.”

   “After Japanese imperialism occupied the Tungsha Islands in 1907, Chang Jen-chun, Governor of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, made representations to the Japanese Consul in Kwangchow to recover the Tungsha Islands and, in April 1909, sent more than 170 people under Admiral Li Chun and Captains Wu Ching-jung and Liu Yi-kuan to the Hsisha Islands.”

   “At present, the Nationalists are using four LSMs to supply troops stationed on Tungsha and Nansha Islands.”

   “Taiwan has also retained control of the Pescadores (Penghu) and Pratas island (Tungsha), and it maintains a garrison on one of the islands in the Spratly gorup (54), where it has rejected claims made by the Philippines.”

   “TWO hundred and twenty-seven miles from Macau, in the South China Sea, the burgundy jet was passing over Tungsha Island, inbound for landing.”