Evening star., 1950-09-07
Fighting Severe
AS G|s Battle
With Bayonets
4S Tanks Destroyed;
24th Division Coins
3H Miles at Kyoneiu
By Russell Brines
Associated Press foreign Correspondent

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
TOKYO, Sept. Fresh Red
Korean attacks aimed at Taegu
with $4,000 troops were rolled
back by Allied troops today. The
Allies were braced for a major
blow at the important base city
in the center of the front.
Severe fighting ragged all along
the 120-mile Korean front. Some
of it was fought by Marines and
doughboys in hand-to- hand COM
bat with bayonets and clubbed
rifles. Both sides lost heavily.
Most of the "a Russian-made
tanks the North Koreans threw
into the battle yesterday were
destroyed or damaged.
Allied aircraft were credited
with destroying 48 enemy tanks
and damaging % more in a rec
ord of 625 sorties. Seventeen
others had been knocked out yes
terday.
Two Red thrusts against Taegu
we stopped. One lunge was
hated miles north of the rail
and supply center along the
Kumhwa bowling alley" by
United States 1st Cavalry troop
ers. The other was smacked back
east Of Yongchon, road junction
20 miles east of Taegu, by Allied
troops.
Communist commanders reck-
Iessly rushed great truck columns
carrying men and supplies toward
this major front.
Bloody Fighting RACES.
A. P. Correspondent Jack Mao
Both with the 1st Cavalry re-
ported grim and blsody fighting
raging unabated today in the hills
just north of Taegu.
First Cavalry foot troops stuck
co their positions under heavy
enemy pressure, he said. In some
cases they had to turn their guns
to the rear to fire on Red Korean
infiltrators.
In one such instance, an esti-
mated Red battalion slipped
through American lines on the
right flank.
Aircraft and artillery blasted
the Reds in ridge positions on the
last row of hills north of Taegu,
Between these hills and Taegu
are fiat ground, good road and
well armed American soldiers.
Gen. Gay Visits Front.
Maj. Gen. Hobart Gay, 1st Cav
airy commander, visited his front
lines this afternoon. He arrived
In time to see United States 5tn
Air Force fighters pound enemy
positions atop high hill 7 miles
north OF Taegu.
"Oh, boy!" exclaimed the gen.
eraI. Look at that! Those boys
are really working them over"
For half an hour the planes
threw rockets, napalm fire bombs.
hlgh-exploSive bombs and ma
chine-gun fire at the enemy.
Shortly before nightfall a large
group of North Koreans was re-
ported, running down the other
side of the mountain.
When, the planes had finished
their attack, American artillery
opened up all along the row of
ridges over which the Reds were
trying to climb.
While the battle swirled at the
southern end of the Kumhwa
bowling alley" other lst Cavalry
units beat off two dawn attacks
two and four miles northeast Of
Waegwan, IL miles northwest of
Taegu. Waegwan already was in
enemy hands.
Yanks Drive 3.5 Miles.
On the Kyongju front, Asso-
clated Press Correspondent Benz
Price reported Red Koreans mass
ing at the rear of the deep wedge
driven itno the right flank of the
Allied war front.
Elements of the trail-blazing
United States Oath Division drove
3H2 miles north of Kyongju in a
counterattack. But the situation
(See KOREA, Page A-4.)