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REDS CHECKED AFTER London ballet garden party
NAKTONG CROSSING
Limited bridgehead under attack by U.S. troops
DANGEROUS THRUST AT TAEGU
On the Western Front, August 6.
An estimated 800 North Korean troops still held a limited bridge- head on the East bank of the Naktong River, 30 miles South and slightly West of Taegu at 4 p.m. today but the counter- attacking Americans halted the Red advance in at least one
area.
The Communists were expanding out of the river bulge pocket North-
ward late this afternoon,
An American column making a sweep of the area about two miles North of the river bulge came upon an estimated company of North Koreans ncar Kwongsan-ni and were pinned down by Red machine-gun fire. Another American unit swept around to the Commun- ists' rear and fighting was still going on late in the afternoon. Half dozen minor battles across the hills and valleys auri
A
British warships shell Inchon
Tokyo, August' 6. British Four.
warships bombarded Inchon on Korea's West coast yesterday, it was reported in today's Far East Naval summary.
along the dusty trails around the Red pocket broke out ទទ the Americans rushed in.
con-
Two Amerienn Infantry parles, one supported by light tanks, reported initial success and said they were pressing on against the North Koreans holding two hills Inside the bulge.
Reports of the sellun Were fragmentary and delayed ir! renching this Western out com- mand post.
Yank reinforcements went Into action and a 24th Division spokes- man described the situation "somewhat brighter,"
D3
and
The Eighth Army communique said other fighting flared along the front us both sides sporred for an opening with patrol ne- tions.. Especially heavy fighting was reported ол the Northertr front South East of Hamchang held by the South Korean troops.
"One unit of the First South Korean Division hna twice let North Korean battalion cross the river and then annihilated it," the communique said.
The Old Scholars' Club of the Royal Academy of Danc-.
•Ing organised a Garden Party at Fairfield Lodge, Kensington, In aid of the Academy's building fund. Among the many. ballet celebrities attending the party was George” Balanchine, the New York Ballet's artistle director, who opened the pro- ceedings. Photo shows a general view of the balloon-fringed scene as the Academy students perform a ballet during The party. AP Photo.
Molotov reported conferring with Mao in Peking
London, August 6.
South of the South Korean The Right-wing "Sunday Graphic" reported today:
tines the First Cavalry Division. threw patrols across the Naktong and fought back against Com-i
Earlier 10 the day North Koreans infiltrated two-miles munists patrols. But the--com up the road from Chirtyon-ni munique" sald: "There No to the town of Kanghi enemy pressure in this area." overran an American artillery In the 25th Division area on position. They struck with authe far South of the line, the tomatic weapons and mortars, communique reported that an.
The surprising the American artil. American company has been cur
emplacements.
uff and is now fighting. Its way Fragmentary reports indicate out. The company was trappedi the Americans may have regain-when it made an attack on a town Two British erkers, supported ett the gun positions in a mid- in its area
to find it unde- only its return to the American lines the company was cut dIT
The four hour tombardment was directed
spotters.
by British
peria!
by two British destroyers, bomh-afternoon counter-attack but this eupted, the communique suld. Or arded milltary targets for two was not confirmed
hours on Saturday, according to
General MacArthur's Headquar
ters commumque No. 269 Jud Attacked from
12.15 p.m. today, milds Router.
British spotters, carried in three sides
Untied States P-2 Neptunes, der-
cribed the Bring as accurate and gave an evaluation of the results ascxcellent.
tish Bre.
the
"It is fighting its way out and relieving unit is on its way,"
communique said.
the co
bank engaged the Communists in
in a Tokyo despatch that Mr. V. Molotov, former Soviet Foreign Minister and one of the senior Soviet political leaders, was conferring. in Poking with the Communist President, Mr. Mao Tse-tung.
report, though unconfirmed, the paper said, was based on intelligence which the Austro- lian Embassy in Tokyo regarded as "complete- ly trustworthy".
toy was in Peking in connec- hold of the Nationalists, and It suggested that Mr. Molo- Invasion of Taiwan, last strong- tion with an expected Chinese with the possible use of Chin-
ese troops in Korea.
The popular Sunday paper, "The People." predicted Iná front page article by its diplomn- le correspondent that the Soviet Union and China might split.
Superfort crashes in California
Tise main Communist slab ap peared to be on the 24th Divizioni front between the First Cavalry the 25th Division, where The counter-attacking Ameri-a
frant reports telephoned-to-Tokyo The flash report on the two-enns hit the five-mile-wide enemy hour bombardment indicated that bridgehead from three sides in sald strong Communist patrol forces in at least 25 boats, and borracks, oll installations, fne- an effort to wipe out the invaders
rafia crossed the river
at two tories, warehouses, gun emplacer force them back across
front
Fairfield Air Force Base, . cc river before nightfall. American points along a five-mile ments, a rollway station, an elec-
American patrols an the East
California, August 6. trie licht plant and a transformer fighter pluries and artlilery bom station bore the brunt of the Bri-ost of the Communist rafts and scattered exchanges of gunfire bardment had already destroyed
In a blast that was felt 25
Superfort, wille artillery and planes Blasted miles around, boats behind them. Fighter cover
If the Communists hold the the Hed boats and hiding places laden with 6,000 gallons of
in riverside villages. Carrier-based United States East bank pocket tonight, they
petrol, crashed here late last Fifth Air Force planes, flying night killing all its occupants. Marine flyers provided fighter will be able to cover crossings
400 sorties over Korea yesterday including Brigadier General cover for the ships and for the by the larger forces reported
loined with the British warshfor Robert F. Travis, tha. Com Navy spotting planos. Nelthor massing on the Western side of
a blasting the Secul area. Muse mander the ships nor the plands drew the river.
of the Ninth Heavy enemy fire,
The Red drive, apparently, was tang ghters found a number of Hear Admiral WG. Andreves, aimed at sending a spearhead be-Sovjet bullt Xak_fighters parked my (imun airfield, outside Seoul,
-The flash of the blast, which Royal Navy, in command of the tween the American forces hold- West Coast blockade and supporting Naktong and those holding and hit them before they could made a craler 20 yards long and feet deep, could be seen in to furee. les his flog in one of the the approaches Plan and
take to the air,
the night for 45 miles.. Thero cruisers.
subjecting either defending force
were from 16 to 20 men in the The United States naval block-to a blanket attack.
crail.
Red thrust
It was still too early to tell
le and support forco operating whether this was a mulu drive or
on the East Coast of Korea ean-
tinti blosting at enemy troop supporting action for an offensive at Taegu
concentrations, supply lines; com- along the coastal plain to Pusan. munications, road Juncilons and A reported crossing attempt 10 gun emplacements North of Yong-miles up the river remained un- dok throughout the day and main-
confirmed. falued a steady atacam of haras Amerienn reconnaleance, par trols combed the East bank of the ing fire throughout the night.
Taking advantage of the im-river in the area without locating
Red infantrymen. eon-
Fighter planes blasted
of North Korean vehicles and troops across the river
Invasion framtheir beachhead with
fire .bamba. rockets and machine-gun straf- There were occasional artillery
oving weather and the
effective sequent incre
use of ground and air snotfers, naval. rung, went to work yesterday maintaining a barrage at 3,800 yards ahead of the South Korean Army's front lines with results described by one shore rbserver
centrations
Ing.
con
a "perfect," said the communique, duels this afternoon all along the -Associated Press and Reuter.
The weather
Bomber Wing
Bix
Travis was formerly bacter
the Pacific Air Command and the Chief of Staff of the Seventh Air Force at Hickam Field, Hawaii,
The B-29 crashed 60 yards from a trailer area housing
Force about 76 Air
families The explosion spewed burning
The paper suggested that Mr.Į MAO-Tso-tunit-was-in-Messow holding secret moetings with Pre- mler Stalin to try to iron out Chinese-Russian differences.
The report said that the Chi- nese Government was "disap- painted" because it would have
Avan, as expected Ruslan
U.S. policy in China
criticised
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AMERICAN SHIP FIRED ON NEAR HK WATERS
Five small shells were fired at the 4,700-ton American, fraighter, Steel Rover, just outside Hong Kong's territorial waters yesterday afternoon.
The vessel was on its voyage to Saigon and Bang- kok, but was forced to return as a result of the attack. No damage and no casualties, however, were caused. One of the projectiles hit the hull of the ship causing small dents. The incident occurred about Ave miles South of Waglan Island.
According to the local agents for the ship, the shots cume either from two unidentified Junks which were in the vicinity at the time or from a Chinese Communist-held, Islandi
milles
away.
few
11 Isponsible that the rants eine from the Island as the
land's Porrison mielit hove
thought that the shin had enter.
American
jet planes in Taiwan
Taipeh, August. 6.
ed the island's territorial waters. The populace of this. Na- Ships have been fired at presionalist capital were today viously by
by Chlucse Communists given fresh glimpses of Unit on Chinese islands outside Honged States Air Force jets which Kong's
landed in Taiwan on Friday The five shells exploded near to strengthen the defence of
18 water the Steel Rover. Shrapnel from this island fortress against a ane bruised the ship's hill above Communist invasion. the waterline.
Gilman
Soveral times during the morning the jets F-80 Shooting Stare-swished across the sky.
Many people who rushed out of doors to see the planes, wera too late, and only heard them.
The ship returned to Kovicon Bay after the incident. and Company, Limited, foen! ngents for the vessel, were ür. ranging naval e:cort for her yes terday evening with the naval
At Keelung, on the North coast authorities here. She will pro- of Taiwan naar Taipeh, the Unit- bably rerume her voyage to Sal-ed States Navy tanker Cimarron goa this morning under naval.
continued to unload a vast quen- escort.
tity of aviation patrol which it When reporters fram the brought here for warplanes de local Press boarded the ship fending Talwan.
and yesterday, officers
The Cimarron merived it members of the Steal Rover Keelung yesterday escorted by to comment on the the cruiser... USB Juncau and Incident. One officer, however two destroyerz, remarked: "They, i mean the Communita, probably don' 1.-like-the-garna on board."
London, August 0. The Sunday newspaper, the "Observer." In an editorial on Taiwan, today criticised the American policy in China which, it said, threatened Bri- tish and American interests in Asla and might lay in ruina Britain's Asian policy,
"It is Americn.
refused not Britain, who has suddenly, without con- sultation, reversed, its previous polley over Talwan and thereby, which is more important, gravuly endangered our highest common interests in Asin," it sold.
craw
It was the first ship to arriv ed in Telwin under U.8. Naval begana-carrying::/:/eôqvoyagerne wedding Nationalist
aburcea predicted that more its would be stationed in Taiwan to bolster the six which arrived on Friday mukana
in
They bollaved the USAF Talwan would be under Major General Howard Turner, Com who is now here evidently on- mander of the 13th Air Force.
on permanent transfer from tho Philippines-Asociated Press.
War materials, Two events of the last wenk. The ship was reported. to be the Observer said, had greatly cancying war materials to Sai Increased the danger
War gon. Brand now trucks and jeepy. breaking out between the United painted in dark green were seer States and China over Taiwan.
Ilned up on the decks. These were the resumption of An official of Gilman and Com the bombing and blockade of the
Limited, who went Chinese mainland" by the Nations- pony, visit to Talwon and his declara-master, Captain D. A. Prabic, told tists, and General MacArthur's board to hear a report from the tion on American co-operation in the "China Mail" that the shells the Nationalists defence of the were fired from one, or possibly island.
two unidentified / motor junks which were the only craft scen
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