Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-03-06
u. 8. Troops
Attack Reds
In New Drive
French With American
Forces Driving Into
Mountain Stronghold
BY Don Huth

tacking over new fallen snow
drove slowly ahead today in Cen
trail Korea. The Chinese Reds
resisted bitterly.
The leathernecks were pushing
toward the key communications
hub of Hongchon, Is miles north
of recaptured Hoengsong. Some
of the Marine elements were IL
miles from Hongchon.
The Chinese Reds are believed
to have concentrated their largest
frontline forces at Hongchon.
General Macarthur said anther
big red force the Chinese
Third Field Army Is moving
toward the front from northeast
Korea to support the communist
Fourth Field Army.
MacArthur's report was the
first indication of large shift by
the Third Field Army. He said
it was comprised of several army
corps, possibly up to 10000 man.
TOKYO, March - lAP) -
U. S. lnfantrymen with screaming
artillery support routed an esti-
mated 5000 North Korean Reds
today from a mountain strong
hold in central Korea.
The Communists gun-hristIinu
stronghold was hit from three
sides by the u. s. Seventh Divis-
ion and the U. s. Second Division
with its French elements.
The Allied punch forced the
Reds to flee to hastily built new
line of resistance TO the north.
Col. William ("5uffaIo Bill')
Quinn, commander of the attack
forces, said: "i,m going to destroy
those XXX Reds il they don't
check out farther over those hills
TOKYO, MARCH sap -
u. S. and French troops launched
a new attack today on bitterly
resisting Reds in mountain
stronghold in east central Korea.
American Marines continued
their drive among precipitous
peaks toward Hongchon a key
road town believed to be commun-
ist central front headquarters.
Chinese and North Korean Reds
fought stubbornly to stem the
grinding allied northward drive
while they built up on the CEN
trail and western fronts for pos
sible 300,000-man counter assault
on the Allie.
On the eastern flank, the US.
Seventh Division and the US.
Second Division and its French
elements hurled three spearheads
against an estimated 5000 Reds
on mountain-ringed plateau.
The Reds were in a bowl-shap-
ed redoubt five miles north of the
east-west road between Pangnim
and Hoengsong.
Associated Press CORRESPONDENT
Tom Stone reported that the
stronghold was "bristling with en-
emy troops, gun emplacements,
tunnels, log bunkers and freshly
dug trenches"
The smash at the Red redoubt
was launched after the Allied
troops beat off localized Red at
tacks at both ends of the central
front.
In the middle sector, the US.
First Marine division pressed
northward through narrow
mountain canyon north of Saemal,
vital road junction five miles
north of shattered Hoengsong.
The Marine advance was slow
and bitter among steep-sided
peaks where Red riflemen and
mortars lurked behind craggy de-
fenseS. 1t was aimed at the inn
portant road hub of Hoengchon,
nine miles north of Saemal, be-
lieved to be the main build-up
point of Red troops on the CEN
trail front.
Frozen allied bodies Uttered the
area. They were the victims of a
Chinese trap in February. An esti-
mated 1000 or more Americans
were killed.
On the Marines right, south
Korean third division elements
met determined resistance from
well-entrenched communists six
miles east of Hoengsong. They
failed in a l0-hour battle Sunday
to dislodge the Reds from clever
ly concealed positions.
On the west end of the CEN
tral front, u. s. tanks supported
hardened Greek mountain fight
ers in their push on Yongdu. Vi
tai road junction town controlling
the last Red east-west supply
route south of the 38th Parallel.
Yongdu is Is miles northwest of
HoengSong.
The Greeks entered the town
Sunday but withdrew under in
tense fire.
u. S. First Cavalry Division
artillery rolled up in support of
the Greeks. The American guns
poured a heavy harrage on Red
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