Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-26

Defect, Mork Clark Says. Poee A-3
coIombions BIome Shift Of U. S. Help
for Boldly Defect. Poee A-3
miles east of the truce talk viii
lage of Panmunjom, early re-
ports said.
Allied troops on a nearby out
post beat off another assault by
q force of about $50 Reds.
At two other outposts in the
area. lighting ragged on four
hour. after the first attacks.
There was no estimate of the
number of Reds involved. Reds
and Allies fought hand to hand
at the positions.
Could Be Red Diversion.
The attack in the Bunker Hill
area could be a Red diversion in
tended to relieve the deadly pres
sure on Old Badly. almost OBJ
Scured by the dust and smoke
raised by Allied artillery and
mortar fire and bomb bursts
since American troops abandoned
it to victorious Chinese.
All day long the western front
hill rocked under intense fire as
the Americans tried to rout out
the stubborn Reds who handed
U. N. troops their worst beating
since they were thrown off the
Kumhwa ridges five months ago.
The United States 7th Division
pulled out in today's early dark
ness, dynamiting their trenches
and bunkers.
The strategic fortress guard
ing the Imjin valley route to
Seoul was left to the Reds and
death.
Wounded COIOmbians Escape.
On Old Badly, the Chinese
held tightly to the land they had
swept over Monday night. United
States counterattacks Tuesday
and yesterday got nowhere.
After the Americans pulled
out, Associated Press Correspond
ent Stan Carter said one officer
told him: Nov they Called
planes) can plaster the whole
hill"
Mr.. Carter said division officers
felt there could be only a token
Red force on the barren hill after
the Allied bombing and Smelling.
American big guns chopped up
300 Chinese trying to get to the
peak.
AS the Smelling and bombing
began in the dawn, four wounded
Colombian soldiers escaped from
a battered bunker where they
had hidden under the noses of
the Reds since Monday night.
Dazed and almost incoherrent,
they reported the Chinese must
be suffering ntensely-they had
taken the same Smelling, Gagged
on the Chinese-held portion of
Badly.
Losses Heavy on Both Sides.
Both sides have taken bitter
losses in the smuggling match for
the red-dirt peak overlooking
the Imjin valley gateway to
Seoul.
The 9th Army said the Reds
lost 1859 notwithstanding 143
counted dead and 434 believed
killed-in the first two days.
American casualties were not an
nounced.
In Tokyo Gen. Mark Clark,
U. N. Far East commander, said
he does not think the loss of
Old Badly is a serious blow, but
added. lit is always serious when
we lose people"
AS dawn broke today United
States warplaneS began battering
Badly with 1,000-pound bombs,
hitting again and again. Artil-
lery made the hill smoking
mess.
Associated Press Photographer
George Sweers, watching from
a nearby hill, said. 1T didn't look
like anything could live above
the ground"
COlOmbians Out of Ammunition.
But the Chinese were up there
on the bare peak, some dead and
wounded, others probably deep
inside bunkers and trenches that
had sheltered American and Co.
lombian soldiers when the Red
wave struck.
A Colombian officer, whose
men held the first Chinese at
tack until they ran out of am
munition, said the Reds acted
as if they had been doped. He
said he found brown pills on
some of the Chinese dead.
The Chinese picked their time
for the attack-the rainy season
that boys down United States
vehicles and men, and gives the
huge Red manpower its greatest