Evening star., 1950-10-20
Parachute Troops
Land for Korean KILL;
War Seen Endinq
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of the historic United Nations
campaign. born in blood with the
June Is Red invasion of the Ko-
rean Republic. The Soviet-satel-
lite North Korean regime had fled.
TN Washington, the Army re-
ported today that United Nations
forces took more than 1000
prisoners in Korea yesterday
the largest bag for any "a hours
since the conflict began. A
spokesman told reporters that
$500 prisoners were taken by
the United States oath Divi-
sion alone)
Red Premier FIeeS.
Red Premier Kim II Sung and
his government were believed to
be either in far North Korea. Man
churia or Soviet Siberia. Some
prisoners said he was in Huichon,
80 miles north of Pyongyang.
After the parachute troops took
off for combat. Gen. Macarthur
landed in Pyongyang at an air
strip in the center of the city.
He ordered 1t Gen. Walton H.
Walker, the American 9th Army
commander. to send South Korean
troops to the Manchurian border
as fast as they can move.
Staff officers said conclusion of
the organized fighting would be
followed by an extensive mopping
up campaign which will continue
until all evidence of resistance is
gone.
American troops will remain in
Korea until that time. But ap-
parently neither they nor British
Commonwealth soldiers will go to
the Manchurian border.
The Red capital was practically
secure. United States 1st Cavalry
Division troopers and South Ko-
reans had only mopping-up job
in the bomb -blackened city of
100000.
Red Resistance Light.
A United Nations 1st Corps
spokesman said all of Pyongyang
was secure except the southwest |
quarter. Red resistance there was
light to moderate small arms fire.
Allied trucks and light tanks were
moving over a repaired highway
bridge.
Gen. Macarthur has indicated
he will keep these troops short
OF the politically explosive Man.
churian and Siberian boundaries.
South Korean forces will operate
there. he has indicated, wherever
resistance may crop up.
The big paratrooper Jump
started at 2 pm. Q2 midnight
EST after six-hour delay be-
cause of bad weather.
The 'chutists landed without
opposition, except for scattered
mortar fire during the first half
hour they were on the ground.
The Red mortars were silenced
quickly.
American artillery, dropped by
air in the first combat attack
involving the parachuting of such
equipment as heavy 105-mm.
howitzers, opened up on the Reds
right away.
The landed Americans famed |
out over the brown and green
rice lands around Sukchon and
Sunchon.
Other Developments.
The dramatic air drop and
lightning thrusts by the United ,
Nation troops inside Pyongyang
overshaoowed developments in
the other sectors.
Maj. Gen. Edward E. Almond,
the liberator of Seoul, was named
commander of all United Nations
forces in Northeast Korea, where
South Korean troops were con-
tinuing to drive the Reds toward
Russia's Siberian border.
South Korean units famed out
in three directions from the key
Northeast Korean city of Ham
hung. They drove 20 miles east,
18 north, and IS northwest, and
were only 80 miles south of the
Manchurian border.
The immediate purpose of the
parachuterS was three fold:
l. To seal off the avenues of
escape for Red troops seeking to
make their way north from
Pyongyang
2. To cut off the highway and
rail line running through Sun
chon and Sukchon. Captured
Reds said the North Korean mill
tary headquarters had been moved
to Sunchon.
3. To release any U. N. soldier
the Reds may have been holding
in the area.
The drop was made in ideal ter
ramon f1atlands ringing a base
of ridges running north from
Pyongyang. 1t was commanded
by Col. w. S. Bowens of the 18th
Regiment of the 11th Airborne
Division. The division was the
first to enter Japan.
Resisting Reds Cleaned Out.
The United States ISt Cavalry
knitted into Pyongyang from the
south at 1902 am. Thursday.
Advance armored units of the
South Korean 1St Division entered
from the east Is minutes later.
Both forces swept through the