The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-26
BIG VICTORY BLOW BEING
 STRUCK NOW
AII-0ut Offensive Report ed Stepped Up Hourly
 Slam Across Border
By oLEN CLENETs

By OLEN CIENEES
 TOKYO, May 26 -lRi- Allied tank-infantry columns swarmed into Red Korea all along the l25- mile battlefront today in hot pur- suit of beaten and fleeing Commun- ists.
 They were stepping up hourly the pace of the all-out offensive pro- claimed Friday by their commander, It. Gen. James A. Van Fleet.
 AP Correspondent Jim Becker said it appeared the Allied com- manders were striking a daring blow for victory
 Communists were surrendering in unprecedented" numbers. Becker reported in front dispatch.
 Peli-MeIl Flight
 Red troops jammed the roads to the north in pell-mell flight. They had abandoned their tactics of waiting until nightfall to move. AL lied planes hammered at these wide open targets.
 We've never seen anything like it before,' a U. s. 9th Army brief ing officer said. He added. ''Amaz- ing"
 The Allies too had abandoned their maneuver of the slow advance. They slammed across the border into Red Korea in sa shalf-dazefi places. Allied troops were shifting into high gear in their northward thrust from the Follow Sea to the Sea of Japan.
 Commanders expressed concern over 60,000 fresh Chinese troops known to be close to the front, but they appeared to be relying on AL lied high mobility to meet any pos sible thrust. One officer said.
 Any time you go out for the whole put you've got to take chance"
 Swarm Over Border
 Allied troops were across the bor- der from east to west = at Yang yang, Inje, near Hwachon and northwest of Chunchon. and north- east of Uijongbu. In the extreme west. UN forces were strung along the border at several points.
 There were so many Chinese dead on some hills, one officer said, you have to be careful not to step on them
 U. s. Doughboys rammed up the main Central Korean highway northwest of captured Chunchon in a pouring rain and rolled apout two miles beyond the 38th Parallel.
 Opposition Light
 Red opposition was light as the infantry column stabbed within stx miles of Hwachon, former aey Chinese bastion eight miles north oi the pre-war political boundary To the east. American and French troops smashed through Chinese | screening forces and swept up the Hongchon-In -Inje road. The thrust opened a direct supply route to the Allied bridgehead across the Cno- yang river OH the East-Centrai front.
 Trap Frightened Tpe ink. up with the bridgehead tightened the trap on suicidal Chi nese fighting rearguard actions to keep open six-mile escape route in the mountains near the road. The French link-up column knocked out Red resistance along the important Hongchon- Inje road. The infantrymen captur- ! ed six important hills commanding l the route.
 | A U. S. task force reached nje and South Korean forces to the east were reported to have occupied I Yangyang. six miles north of the 3sth Parallel on the east coast
 Fast Moving Advance l Fast moving Allied units knlied l across Ahe Parallel at several points 1 on the East-Central and Eastern fronts Saturday. They advanced against almost no opposition from Chinese who, an officer said. sur rendered fin numbers" l rra1