Evening star., 1950-09-21

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farther east to the railroad tracks
leading into the city and then
swung southwark.
SOUTHEASTERN FRONT
Reds in the South were reported
withdrawing, changing into civil
ian clothes and deserting or sur
rendering. Many others seemed
on the verge of surrendernig.
On the old United Nations
beachhead in the southeast. the
main actions were in the Waeg-
wan sector, 140 miles southeast
of Seoul.
United States 1st Cavalry Divi-
sion troopers and South Koreans
forged a trap on 5000 Reds of
the Sd and 18th Divisions north
east of WaegWan. and the United
States oath Division drove 3 miles
northwest of the town.
Associated Press Correspondent
Benz Price reported Reds fed or
surrendered after the oath took
a strategic hill over the railroad
tunnel near Waegwan. The hill
dominates the road to Kumchon,
20 miles northwest of Waegwan.
Gen. Macarthur headquarters
reported the oath captured nine
Red tanks and 20 anti-tank guns.
Scores of Reds Quit.
Carrying safe-conduct leaflets
dropped by United States war;
planes, scores of Reds quit-among
them a political commisar. Those
taken by the Oath Division said
they didn't have much choice;
they would be killed by the Amer
leans if they stood their ground
and shot by their own command
ers if they fled.
Associated Press Correspondent
Jack Macbeth reported the trap
northeast of Waegwan was in a
small pocket 13 miles north of
Taegu.
"We've got them now" said
the cavalry's Maj. Gen. Hobart
Gay. 1--WE have troops all around
them"
The 18th Divisions chief of
staff, Senior Col. Lee Hak Ku, 80,
surrendered earlier-the highest
ranking Red officer yet to give
up. He professed to have been
won over by studying democracy.
If the trapped Reds are held or
wiped out, the way is open for an
Allied advance up the Kumchon-
Taejon rail line and highway to-
ward Seoul over the best route
to the capital.
River Crossed in Places.
Kusan is the northern most
advance of the Allied forces since
the offensive kicked off September
Is. The village is 35 miles north
west of recaptured Pohang, east
coast seaport.
On the southern front of the
old beachhead, twin spearheads
of the United States I'd Division
lashed out toward Hyopchon, 81
miles west of the winding Max
tong river. Infantrymen have
crossed in at least five places.
The northern thrust encoun-
tered heavy resistance in drive
on Chogye, on high ground 6 miles
west of the river.
Associated Press Correspondent
Stan SWinton said prisoners re-
ported the Red 9th Division re-
inforced the battered Communist
I'd Division only two days ago.
In the United States 25th Di-
vision sector, the extreme south
arn stretch of the beachhead
perimeter, the Reds fought stub
bornly. They were thrown back
west of Kangju, miles northwest
of Haman, but they slowed the
American advance.
Haman was the high-tide mark
of the Communist sweep from
the north. 1t carried them within
IS air miles of the southeast port
of PuSan.
WAR IN THE AIR.
United Nations based
planes set a new record of 702
sorties (single fights yesterday
over Korea's war area, the Air
Force said. The old record was
slightly under 700 sorties.
Deadly fighters and bombers
ranged up and down the penin-
sula, killing an estimated 900
North Koreans in one straf1ng at
tack on retreating Reds from the
Southeastern Korea war zone.
B-29s, finding industrial targets
scarce, hit three enemy training
camps near Pyongyang, the North
Korean capital, and another at
Mirin. In each instance all bombs,
a Far East Air Force summary
said, started large fires.
Fifteen warehouses at Sukchon,
in North Korea, were destroyed
and the rail lines between Son
chon and Haeju were cut in many
places. A bridge at Pyongyang
was hit.
The big bombers observed little
traffic moving in North Korea.