Evening star., 1953-07-27
Heavy Red Borroge
Botters Allied Lines
Right Upto DeodIine
Tense GIs Wildly Cheer
As Sudden Silence Falls
Over Bloody ButtIefieIds
BY the Assoeiuied Press

SEOUL July 27-Shooting stopped along the Ko-
rean battlefront at 10 pm, tonight g Monday
EDIT, bringing to abrupt halt 81 months of death
and destruction.
Shortly after the at 10 wild yells broke out
out of their bunkers shook hands ga and cheeed the big
day long in coming.
While ground fighting was all but nil in the final
hours mounting Communist artillery fire took its toll of
allied soldiers up to the last minute.
All day and into the night the Reds sent artillery
and mortar barrageS screaming into allied lines east OF
Kumhwa on the central front.
barrageS mounted fury the hours by Some
times shells ripped front and rear line positions rate OF
Allied artillery doomed back trying to silence the guns
Even the shooting ended litter jeeps and ambulances
wound down dusty hill trails from outpost ridges bringing
moaning broken men to rear hospitals.
Associated Press Correspondent John Randolph reported
that between and pm, American division east of
Only before guns fell SILENT and
South Korean arteymen tried to mue the Red
and for all with time-on-target barrage
Using massive supercharge of powder nearly II battaons
of Allied artillery opened simultaneously.
fired in salvo
The valleys and shook as the shells burst deep behind
the Red lines.
The Communist shelng stopped at 943 pm-at about the
moment the Allied barrage lifted
If the Reds had not insisted shooting there would
have been little or no firing on the closing day.
Ordered Defense Only.
Army division commanders only to fire
defensvely. The order was meant to lives.
the western 'front.' sector correspond
ents George Macarthur and Fred Waters
When Red shell splashed allied territory big
guns sent screaming back.
Correspondent Robert Gibson the front
heavy shelng by the Reds allied artillery
answered in kind.
Fifth Air said 400 Air Force
based planes unoaded bombs troops supply
tratons the Kumsong bulge sector the
at this strip
nS two weeks hurled their greatest attack years.
They will get to keep the few miles staggering
in human life map released by the u N. after
the armstce signing showed the Reds given almost all the
Kumsong bulge plus other ridges and oupos
became famous because of bitter fighting for their
control
Finger Ridge Heartbreak Ridge, of the
bitteres fighting Old Baldy all went to the
Communists.
Keep Trying Until Last
Yesterday, knowing the armsice about signed
the Reds sent Chinese companies against
outpost of Lookout Mountain They an
hour-long rifle and grenade battle At about the
small probing attacks driven off by
defending outpostS in the Berlin area.
Just before 10 the heavy cannonadng tapered
in few front silent dark. Allied
soldiers breathed easier and the by
The Peping Radio broadcast order from North
Marshal Kim II Sung and Chinese Gen. Peng Tehua telling
the Red forces to stop fighting at 10 pull back
kometerS about IA miles, and mot again
step into the demlitariZed zone"
The has claimed than 1a million in killed,
wounded and missing
The diplomats take attempt
lasting peace to this war-torn land.