The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-08-18
Nv The Associated Press

BY The Associated Press
United Nations troops, tanks and
planes stalled and then counter
attacked a menacing drive of 3d.
900 Reds from the northwest on
, Taegu today Southwest of Taegu,
U. S. doughboys and Marines gave
crack Red division a hell of a
licking" and on two other fronts
. U. N. forces rolled ahead in the
best days winnings of the Korean
War.
While Allied tanks. air bombs, ar
tillery and troops dashed back at
the Reds on the sector northwest
of Taegu. key U. N. advance base
now being cleared of civilians, all
American troops on the Changn-
yong sector, % miles southwest OF
Taegu, advanced In a push against
a bridgeehtad of $4,000 Commun-
lists across the Naktong River.
Maj Gen. John H. Church, siz-
ing up this triumph, said the Red
Fourth Division certainly has tax
en- hell of licking. don't think
that division will do much fighting
for a while"
The Americans gained up to three
miles on this important front, chas-
ed many Reds back across the river,
and hoped to reach the river bank
by nightfall
POhang Retaken
/ South Korean troops recaptured
Pohang on the east coast, taken by
the Reds in a surprise drive last
week. Recapture of the port, once
the No. 2 supply base for U. NJ
forces was an important victory
which permitted u S. planes once
Eagain to use its airstrip six miles
to the southeast Kigye, inland from
Pohang, also was retaken.
On the deep southern front, west
of Masan Port, U. S. 25th Infantry
Division troopsi dashed at the North
Korean Sixth Division and drove
! it back with losses after the Reds
had launched two-prongea at
tack The Red retreat was dis
orderly one. Some of the dead the
Communists left behind apparently
had belonged to the Chinese Com
munist Army. The Reds attacked
at dawn, won some ground, and
| then lost 1t all by night.
Korean Independence
The United States was on record
in the u NJ Security Council for
unification of all Korea as an in
dependent country. U. S. Chief |
Delegate Warren r. Austin laid
down this policy at Lake Success.
N. Y, last night in session once
more marked by vain effort to |
break a procedural blockade i'm
posed by Soviet Delegate Jakob A. /
Malik, Council President for Aug
ust Austin did not stipulate whether
the U. S. thinks U. N. forces should
go beyond the 38th parallel in
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The United Nations is setting up
a relief organization to care for
some 100000 South Korean war
refugees. according to details
cabled from Pusan, the main u. N.
bare there. Arrangements were
concluded last week under Gen. !
MacArthur's direction
Taegu Refugees
A new mass of refugees was be-
ing added to the burden by the
evacuation OF Taegu. and the South |,
Korean government itself went on
to another unspecified emergency |
capital, as the thunder of Red guns
was heard in the hills to the north
west. Some Red shells falling in
Taegu near the railway station had
caused some panic among the pop
ulation, but this subsidized.
Refugees have poured into Taegu |
ahead of the Red advance from the
north, increasing the ever-present
threat of guerrilla infiltration be-
hind United Nations lines.
The Americans threw their As
| ton Pershing tanks into the count
erattack on the north central front. |
The u. S. 9th Regiment and the
South Korean First Division car
ried the thrust. The Red threat.
three divisions strong, had emerged
phoenix like from the area drench-
ed with bombs by U. S. B-29s
Wednesday. They had driven south
from Kunwi, Is miles north of
Taegu, and captured Kumwha. 10
miles north of the emergency capt.
tai.
Red Atrocities
Grim doughboys attacked with
the knowledge of new Red atroci-
ties. A massacre of 80 U. s. pris-
oners of war was discovered Thurs
day on Hill 1903, bloody position
recaptured by the U. S. First Cav
airy Division. The victims hands
and feet were tied. Three American