Evening star., 1952-10-10
Reds Seize Hill
Again and Mass
$1,000 Nearby
Two Fresh Divisions
Ready to Bottle
| Valiant Koreans
BY the Assoeioted Press

SEOUL. Korea, Oct. 10.-Chi-
nese Reds battered their way to
the top of White Horse Hill to-
night and massed 10000 fresh
troops within easy striking dis
tance of the blood-soaked hill.
Intelligence officers said the
Communists could commit two
fresh divisions to battle at any
time,
The fanatical Chinese stormed
up the slopes with screams and
curses and pushed valiant South
Korean defenders of the ridge
line.
The weary United Nations
troops scrambled right back to
the top and battled the Reds
hand to hand in a drenching rain
for half an hour before surren-
dering the crest again.
Battle in Pitch Darkness.
The wild fighting broke off at
9 pm. with the Chinese in control.
The South Koreans Rugged the
south slope $50 yards from the
top.
Earlier reports said a hilltop
brawl" swirled around the peak
in almost pitch darkness. Reds
and South Koreans fought it out
with grenadeS, rife butts and
bayonets.
It was the seventh time today
that savage close-in fighting has
swept across the rubbed crest Of
the vital peak.
A pelting rain started just after
dark. It soaked the wearied sol.
diers who have been fighting con-
tinuousiy more than four days in
a battle in which the peak has
changed hands about 20 times.
Big Guns Are Silent.
A front-line officer said II was
so dark on the crest that the
Republic of Korea troops had to
Igrope their way forward to close
with the Reds.
He said the South Koreans had
one simple rule for fighting in the
dark: If they felt a shaved head
in the hand-to-hand fighting they
knew it must belong to q Chi
Inese.
That was all the Identification
they wanted.
The officer said the only sounds
from the hilltop were "the screams
when some one is knitted and the
means Of the wounded" Because
of the darkness. the big guns Of
both sides were silent.
South Koreans Determined.
Maj. Gen. kim Chong Oh. com.
Imander of the valiant South Ko.
reans. said the Chinese would con.
tinue their attacks on the hill but
my division will continue to beat
him back"
"The Chinese know and know
that whoever controls White Horse
Mountain controls Chorwon Val.
ley" Gen. Kim said. THE Chinese
have lost much face because We
have beaten them back. think
their general must be very angry.
He will not stop trying until he
has used up everything he has.
but my division will continue to
beat him back"
Sharp and bitter battles fiared
elsewhere along the l55-mile
battlefront. But there was moth.
ing to compare with the carnage
on White Horse.
BY frontline estimate. the Chi.
nese have already lost 5000 cas-
ualties in trying to save face on
the strategic height.
80 Hours of Fighting.
The fighting had ragged for 90
hours with hardly a break.
Not since Heartbreak Ridge q
year ago has a hill cost so much
blood.
The action on White Horse far
overshadowed fighting elsewhere.
Sharp but minor fights were re-
ported along the far western front.
northwest Of Yonchon and in the
east above the Punch Bowl.
United Nations fighter-bombers
roared in behind the lines today
and pounded Red troop concentra-
tionS.
Fifteen Superforts blasted four
Communist supply centers In
North Korea last night-three Of
them In the vicinity of the Korean
! Red capital. PYongyanp