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Nome, Alaska, Monday, August 7, 1950 !
Korean Situation
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knocked out four or five tanks
moving northeast toward Waeg
wan and pounded Red artillery,
trucks and troops.
American artillery also hurled
shells into the convoy. j
For the past few days the North
Koreans had concealed their
movements. Now they are coming
into the open.
General MacArthur’s headquar-,
ters reported the sinking Friday of;
a 10,000 ton North Korean trans- j
port at Inchon, the port of Seoul.
B-29’s lashed Seoul for the sec
and straight day, leaving the rail
road yards flamirrg and shrouded
in smoke. The medium bombers
plastered the rail center with 100
tons of bombs, 20 tons more than
were dropped Friday.
Monday, August 7, 1950
U. S. Marines and infantrymen
smashed almost two miles ahead
in their new Korean offensive be
hind a ferociius air attack today.
While President Truman got a
complete briefing on the military
situation from his joint chiefs of
staff, the defense department
warned against considering devel
opments in Korea as tlje begin
ning of a general U. N. offensive.
A department briefing officer said
the development should be term
ed an “offensive action,” adding:
“We.do not think the time has
arrived yet for U. S. and South
Korean forces to roll the enemy
back all along the line.”
This statement pointed up re
ports from U. S. Eighth Army
headquarters of concern over the
probability that communists were
renewing their attempts to cross
the Naktong River in an area 20
miles north of the American push.
This area is guarded by the bat
tered 24th Division, two of. whose
regiments still are trying to ferret
out the 150 survivors of an 800
man force which crossed the river
Sunday.
But reinforcements were pour
ing in steadily, fully equipped, be
hind the advancing Americans on
the southern front.
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
in Tokyo called it an offensive—
the first of the United Nations af
ter ifve weeks of fighting retreats
which have driven the defenders
into a beachhead of only about
4,000 square miles.
President Truman’s special as
sistant on foreign affairs, W. Ave
rell Harriman, saw the offensive
get under way. He flew to the Ko
rean war front Sunday in time to
visit a battalion command post
and hear U. S. big guns preparing
the way for the American jump
off. On his return to Tokyo, Har
riman said he found U. S. military
men and South Korean leaders
4<very cheerful and optimistic.”
U. N. secretary-general Trygve
Lie has indicated he confidently
expects a U. N.victory in Korea.
He called yesterday for bold and
e n 1 i g htened statesmanship to
avert World War III when “United
Nations action has succeeded in
restoring peace in Korea.” The
secretary-general made the state
ment in a report prepared for the j
U. N. assembly, which meets Sept.
19 in New York. i
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While the new U. N. offensive
got under way in the southern
most part of Korea, B-29 Super
fortresses made their biggest
strike of the war against com
munist supplies. The Superforts
dropped 540 tons of bombs on
railyards at Pyongyang, the Red;
capital, and on an oil refinery at;
Wonsan. ;
All the bombers returned to
their bases.
The American attack was!
launched Sunday even as the com- j
munists were preparing an attack j
of their own. The Reds struck on j
the U. S. right flank. The primary!
communist threat still lay some 14
miles north of the new American
thrust. In the area of the big bend
in the Naktong River, the U. S.
24th Division held defensive posi
tions against strong prob i n g
thrusts by the Reds.
“The attack launched this mom
ing by the 25th Division* and the
Marine brigate advanced about
3,000 yards today on a broad
front,” said a communique of U. S.
8th Army headquarters. “Strong
resistance was met with U. S.
forces inflicting heavy casualties
on the enemy.”
The First Marine Brigade went
into action on the eighth annivar
sary of the landing of the First
Marine Division at Guadalcanal in
World War II.
The government of the Philip
pines Republic offered to send to
Korea immediately a fully equip
ped and trained regiment of 5,000
combat infantrymen.
*
From Jakarta, capital of the
United States of Indonesia, top
Dutch and Indonesian command
ers hastened to Makassar in an ef
fort to stop bloody fighting be
tween federal troops and Indone
sian soldiers who are awaiting dis
charges from the Dutch army. The
cause of the outbreak has not
been announced.
In Europe, France pledged her
self to a three-year rearmament
program to help guard against Red
aggression. The French called on
Britain and the U. S. to keep a
“sufficient number of divisions”
in Continental Europe to meet the
threat. The government announced
France would spend the equiva
lent of $5,710,000,000 on re-arma
ment.
JOHANNESBURG, Union of
South Africa, (JP)—South Africa
has called for airforce volunteers
to make up a fighter squadron to ■
go to Korea.
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Here is the latest map e you the keep up to date on the present fighting in this Far Eastern area.