Evening star., 1950-08-31
Tanks Halt Reds Pohonq Drive
And Reopen Road North Of Port;
Foes Losses Put at 900 q Day
Enemy Still Firing
Artillery, Mortors
In Vicinity Of Kigye
By O. H. P. King
Assoeioted Press Foreign Correspondent


TOKYO, Friday, Sept. L.
American tanks and troops stopped
a Korean Red attack on Pohang
yesterday and Gen. MacArthur's
war summary early today said Al
lied forces had advanced within
500 yards of the point where the
enemy attacked towards that east
coast port Wednesday.
The Reds were still firing ar
tillery and mortars in the area
of ravaged Kigye, 9 miles north
west of Pohang.
In the face of light fire the
Americans reopened the road
north from the threatened port
on the Sea of Japan.
They moved from three to four
miles north of the city beyond the
spot where an enemy roadblock
yesterday had made it impossible.
Army Photographer Ray Turn
bull Of Miami Beach, Fla, re-
ported the road reopened. He &C
companied American tanks and
infantrymen north of the port
city and returned to Taegu, main
Allied bastion west of Pohang
later in the day.
Target DeadIine Missed.
The Reds had missed their
target deadline-last midnight
for driving the United Nations
forces out of Korea. 1t was set
by Red Premier Kim II Sung.
Deep on the south coast at the
other end of the 120-mile long
battleline, South Korean marines
reported the capture of large
amounts of enemy material and
the killing of 500 Reds in two
weeks.
The Pohang action highlighted
the Thursday activities on the
warfront.
Allied planes continued to ham
mer targets with fury that
gradually was eliminating Com
munist rolling stock, industrial
plants, ammunition dumps and
materiel stockpiles.
The North Koreans were re-
ported losing 1000 men a day
in the drive on Pohang mounted
by $4,000 men.
The Air Force estimated it
killed 1900 North Koreans in
strafing and bombing attacks on
the frontlines at Pohang. Seven
h .ndred Red dead were counted
in one sector and 500 more in
another.
Warships and tank guns added
heavily to the enemy losses yes
terday when the North Korean
drive gained only about four
blocks on the outskirts of the No.
2 Southeast Korea port.
Along other fronts of the box
shaped defense perimeter there
were these developments:
At Changnyong, % miles south
west of Taegu, the United States
Second Division repulsed enemy
attempts to cross the Naktong
River.
Outside of Waegwan, IL miles
northwest of Taegu, United States
1st Cavalry Division troops in
small number missed capturing a
1,700-foot hill by 200 feet. They
were repulsed by a small force of
entrenched Reds.
Southern Front Quiet.
All was quiet on the extreme
southern front. A patrol of the
American 25th Division moved
5000 yards, better than two miles,
behind Communist lines North of
Haman without drawing shot.
Haman is 10 miles northwest of
Masan, south coast port 27 air.
line miles west of Pusan. main Al
lied seaport on the Southeastern
Korean coast.
Even disputed Battle Noun
tain" in that area, which has
changed hands eight times in two
weeks, was quiet.
North of Taegu 10000 North
Koreans were stalled in a drive
on that central front railhead.
South Korean troops held firm
before concerted enemy thrusts.
On the other hand the building
of United Nations manpower in
creased slowly. A small Aus
tralian infantry contingent was
flown into Japan on its way to
Korea yesterday. British troops,
(See KOREA, Page A-3.)