Suddenly the memories of a quarter of a century came flooding back. Tungting Island! That was Bobbie's lighthouse I saw perched high on the cliffs. I remembered too, the briefing in the guerrilla general's headquarters a few days earlier, remembered that Tungting is the most southerly, the smallest, the most exposed of all Free China's holdings.
1958 September 19, “The Communist Bloc”, in Central Intelligence Bulletin[2], CIA, page 1:
A Nationalist convoy consisting of one LSM and two patrol craft, en route to Tungting, a few miles south of Kinmen, reported early in the afternoon that one of the patrol craft had been damaged by Communist artillery fire and was "helpless.”[…] Following the strafing incident, the Nationalist joint operations center reported that four Communist motor torpedo boats were attacking three Nationalist patrol vessels in the vicinity of Tungting and that the Nationalist vessels were also under attack by Communist artillery.
No sooner had the Communist guns fell silent, a fleet of 4 Communist gunboats and 6 landing craft was seen approaching the Nationalist-held tiny islet Tungting southwest of Kinmen.[…] If Tungting were seized by the Communists, it could mean a stab in the back of Kinmen. A Nationalist patrolling fleet rushed to Tungting and engaged[…]
n light of the Chinese Communists’ announcement that live-fire naval and air exercises will be conducted in waters southwest of Kin- men, Kinmen Garrison Command has appointed Major (Chin Shih-shih), deputy divisional commander, to assume command at the (Tungting) Island, an island closest to the exercise zone.[…] It was learned that by appointing a deputy divisional commander to assume command in (Tungting), the military wants to get a grasp of the local situation and strengthen combat preparations and at the same time help calm the soldiers’ moral and boost their spirits.[…] (Tungting) island is an importamt point in maritime transportation along the Chinese mainland.
2003 October 4, Brian Hsu, “Coast guard not ready to take over Kinmen islands”, in Taipei Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2003, Taiwan News, page 4[6]:
The six islands in the Kinmen group include Tatan, Erhtan, Menghuyu, Tungting, Peiting and Shihyu, which are scheduled to be demilitarized and opened for tourism early next year.
Built in 1871, located on top of Tungting Tao, a painted black brick round tower, the first black station in Taiwan region, and the first western style lighthouse. The tower was designed by a British engineer, David Marr Henderson. The lighthouse is an important landmark and tourist area in Tungting Tao.
(Can we date this quote?), “Marine Lighthouse Section”, in 海關博物館 [Customs Museum][9], archived from the original on 17 October 2021[10]:
In Taiwan, the first five lighthouses were set up at Yuwen Tao, Eluan Pi, Kaohsiung, Anping, and Tamsui by Ching administration. In Kinman, the Tungting Tao and Peiting Tao, lighthouses were constructed.
