Century-old ammunition dump in Taiwan opened to media

Century-old ammunition dump in Taiwan opened to media

HSIYU, Taiwan - An ammunition dump built by the colonialist Japanese on Hsiyu, or Fisher Island, in Taiwan's Penghu archipelago in the early 1900s was opened to Kyodo News on July 25, 2011.

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