Evening star., 1950-08-09
Korean Reds Reported
Ready to Flee Chinju
Before Yanks' Drive
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Red troops. The Americans had
been begged down for two days
near Chindong. They jumped on
before dawn yesterday on the new
attack. Marines were rolling
ahead with them.
Reds Showed Back From River.
Defenders of the Naktong River
line to the north showed the Reds
out of two river crossing bridge
heads. The United States oath
Division herded others into an
open spot from the hills anG
poured artillery shells into them.
Serious threats to the important
Taegu area on the central front
were eased bS the American and
South Korean successes. The
cheering news was given in a
United States 9th Army COM
munique issued at $50 pm. (4:30
am. EDTO yesterday.
The close fighting took place in
the south. American soldiers,
charging with fixed bayonets,
killed 40 North Koreans in a
sharp engagement.
The communique said the Reds
apparently were withdrawing to-
ward Chinju. The United States
35th Regimental Combat Team
put patrols to within seven miles
of the burned-out city.
Successes Reported.
The communique reported "ag-
gressive-m minded United Nations
troops carried out successful ac-
ton in every engagement with
the enemy" along the entire 140-
mile front.
Correspondent Hal Boyle re-
ported American 1st Cavalrymen
chased after a battalion of Reds
in the hills two miles below
Waegwan, Is miles northwest of
Taegu, the South Korean Repub-
lies emergency capital.
The Communists had waded
the river in the night and COM
manded the road to Taegu with
machine-gun and mortar fire
from a 1,200-foot ridge.
North of Waegwan, South Ko-
rean troops drove the invaders
back to the Naktong River.
Some of the Reds on the Al
lied side Of the Naktong six miles
below Changnyong were driven
out of high ground by the Amer
leans. Changnyong is % miles
southwest Of Taegu.
Late frontline dispatches from
the Changnyong bridgehead said
the bulge there had been reduced
by American troops who drove the
Communists out Of high ground.
These dispatches said the Reds
were being herded in exposed po-
sitionS on a slope near the river.
Ordered Wiped Out.
1t. Gen. Walton H. Walker, 9th
Army commander. had ordered
the invaders at this point wiped
out by nightfall.
The Allied central front is man
ned by the American oath Divi-
sion, reinforced by newly-arrived
I'd Division elements from Fort
Lewis, Wash, the lst Cavalry and
South Korean troops.
The foremost Red threat
to a dozen miles from
Taegu, main supply terminal on
the road-rail corridor leading
northwest out of Pusan. the big
United States supply port.
Allied South Korean forces re-
ported last night they had just
about cleaned out a Red Korean
bridgehead across the Naktong
five miles north of Waegwan.
The South Koreans said they
drove the Communists back across
the river in a counterattack.
American warplanes and ar
tillery knocked out all tanks
which the Communists had put
across the river, the report said.
An American pilot said he saw
five Communist tanks this morn
ing on the east bank.
Reds Gain in Far North.
In the far north of the Allied
defense box the Communists made
fresh gains with sharpened thrusts
against South Korean forces.
A tank-led attack drove the
9Th South Korean Division back
several miles at a point west OF
Uisong and southeast OF Ham