Evening star., 1950-09-01

and the communications center
of Taegu.
There was no doubt of the Rec
objective in their southern drive
An artillery burst killed a North
Korean regimental commander
and the Americans seized his map:
and battle plans. These showed
that the southern prong of the
push was aimed at Masan, about
81 air miles from the key port
t! of PuSan. - s,,,.~- s.eE.gs
On the northern end Of the 25th
Division sector, the Reds fought
their way into American positions
and cut off one company near the
Naktong River. The company held
fast, but was isolated from the
rest of its battalion by the fail
ture Of 70 South Korean, unit to
fight of the attack.
Late in the Afternoon, two
American infantry companies
counterattacked and regained the
positions lost by the South Ko-
reans. But there was no i'm
mediate word from the cutoff
company. 1t was being supplied
with ammunition from the air.
In the Yongsan area. the push
had reached within II air miles
| of the main highway from Pusan
to Taegu, Allied communications
and supply center on the central
sector.
Bodies are stacked up by the
hundreds" a I'd Division officer
told Associated Press Correspond
ent Jack Macbeth. But they're
still coming"
A United States 9th Army COM
munique reported 1000 Reds killed
and three tanks destroyed by mid
day yesterday. But judging from
earlier field dispatches the figures
were ultraconservative.
The Reds appeared to be max
ing a supreme bid to wipe out
the United Nations beachhead or
the southeast corner of the Asiatic
peninsula.
Some $4,000 Communists - a
third of their estimated strength
were involved. This included
five divisions, one of them a
full armored division, making the
push. Two others were in re-
serve to exploit breakthroughs.
Navy carrier planes Joined
United States 5th Air Force and
Australian fighters in swarming
into the battle like angry hornets
But the North Koreans attack
ground ahead. The Reds swept
forward through minef1elds and
barbed wire.
Attack Seen CONTINUED"
An 9th Army communique yes
terday reported the attack as
generally contained"
Associated Press Correspondent
Stan Swinton said sectors held by
two regiments of the 25th Division
were generally secure, but that
large bodies of Red troops infil-
trated behind them.
A third regimental front was
described as fluid. Mr. Swinton's
dispatch was timed at 8 pm. (f
am, EDIT yesterday. An overall
estimate by a division spokesman
was: 1.-THE situation is serious, but
not critical"
A prisoner taken on the south
ern front said the North Koreans
expected to take Masan in three
days.
A Red armored division hit the
United States I'd on the Chang
nyong sector of the Naktong front
and made the deepest penetration
in is hours of furious battle. The
I'd Division was forced back be-
yond the point where the Reds
established a bridgehead two
weeks ago. That bridgehead was
wiped out by the United States
Oath Division.
Heavy fighting was reported also
at Songjin, hamlet bordering a
rice paddy four miles east of the
Naktong and about four miles
south of Yongsan.
Farther north, the United States
list Cavalry Division was in action
against another Red concentra-
ton. There were no details of the
action in that sector.
On the northeast end Of the
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