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NAVAL GUNS BOMBARD REDS ABOVE POHANG S. Korean counter-attack checks Communist drive "LAST GASP" OFFENSIVE
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On The Pohang Front, August 28.
An American naval task force rained shells on the North Koreans three miles above Pohang tonight to check the Red drive on the
East coast port city.
Two cruisers and four destroyers off shore in the Japan Sea turned their guns on enemy forces trying to drive down and recapture the city they lost to a South Korean counter-attack eight days ago. Sholls from five, six and eight inch guns stroaked across the sky and their bursts mingled with the occasional streak of machine-gun trac- er fire from machine-guns fired by frontline infantry. Fighting along the mountain ridge North and North West of the city generally had sub- sided at nightfall but South Korean artillery and American batteries supporting the South Korean ground forces kept up sporadic fire into und behind the enemy lines,
American
Just before dark fighter pilots reported a "fairly Jorge"
of movement
North and equipment
Korcan troops
ear Hunhac, five miles North of Pohang on the coast.
ped
artillery
has not yl
brought Pohang under attack al- though the front He at some s only two and a hal places
miles away. Spotter planes' pilat reported enemy shells were fall-
SCAP message
withdrawn on
major plant at Songjin, an im portant industrial city located about 180 miles North of the 38th Parallel on the East coast of Korea
"Yesterday's attack by B-29's steel
Truman's order was on the big iron and
on
Washington, August 28. General Douglas MacArthur was forced to withdraw his statement
Formors. on direct orders from President Truman, the White House sald today.
The White House Issued this statement:
"In order to avoid confusion as to the United States position with respect to Formosa, the President diepted that the statement prepared by General
plent at Kyomito, 10 miles West of Pyongyang. The B-20's operat- ed in clear weather flying across formation with the huge plant the bombs dropped accurately in A perfect pallern, No-flak was en- countered and no enemy fighter planes were seen,
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1950.
Theseus leaves for
Korea
Price: 20 Cents.
The British aircraft cariler Thereus, 13,350 tons, is shown teaving Portsmouth to Join Bri- tish naval forces operating off Korea under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. The #35 feet long warship, which has a apred of 25 knots, was the subject of a court of enquiry after the discovery of severed electribal leads to her gyro.com pass-apparently an attempt at sabotage. (AP Photo).
Chinese Reds cross into Korea,
Formosa
Taipeh, August 28,
Nationalist Government spokesman today claim. ed to have received intelligonce reports that four Chinese Communist armies equipped by the Russians have entered Korea to join the battle against the United Nations forces. statement said they crossed the Yolu River into Korea last month..
"Fighters and Ught bombers today pravited to let-up to in- and cessant strafing, rocketing bombing of Communist concen- The trations and their supply lines.
"Round the clock B-20 Invader bombers operated in the Pyongt did not say whether they had already gone into "action but if true it would be the worst threat crippled the North Koreals
thus far to General MacArthur's outnumber system.
od forces in the small Pusan and Targu beachhead.
ing into the sea fust North of.) ---- Maskrthur "on"thhe, kablece, he * yang open yand~39nsportation
Pohang in the pört arda.
Copital
The South Korchn Division counter-attacked North- wards toward Kigyo this after- noon while other South.
Korean forces held their ground two to three miles North of Pohang
The North Koreans had ad- vanced to within 3,000 yards of the East coast port city and by nightfall infantry and arilllery duets were raging along the de- fence area extending across the rugged hills from four miles West of Pohang to the Japan Ses two and a half miles North "of the
city.
for a short time fald down a cur-
withdrawn."
At the same time, Mr. Tru- man wrote to Mr. Warren R. Austin, the United States re. presentative at the United Nations Security Councit, re. stating this country's polley on Formosa-United Press.
(See page 8).
"P-39 feta and F-51 Mustangs lew behind the battle lines from. Лек dawn to well past dark. Some ters ranged
above the fighters 38th Parallel against specie communications targets.
war.
the
invasion of
Hu
The first
claims
Red troops.
move toward Indo-China
is worth: It said that the men
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PEKING PROTEST OVER ALLEGED AIR ATTACKS
London, August 28.· Communist China charged, today that American
and British planes 'strafed, an airfield and..... railway contro yesterday in Chinosó territory on the Manchurian aldo of the Yolu River boundary with North Korea.
The planes violated Manchurian territory five times and made three strafing attacks in which three persons were killed and 21 wounded, the Chinese Communist Premier and Foreign Minister, Mr. Chou En-lal, charg ed in an official diplomatic protest to the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson.
The protest was broadcast over Radio Peking by the Communist New China News agency and was monitored both in London and in Tokyo.. The protest demanded tha he United States punish the airmen and compensate Com munist China for the losses. It added that the Chinese ("ommunlat Government rem served "all rights of raising further demands”.
1. At 10.04 a.m. on Sunday two B-28s made a reconnaisance flight over Changpal on the Yalu River 120 miles North East of Antung and stayed over China for 10 2. At 10,05 a.m. three E-51 Mustang fighters and one Mos- a. British-type bomber, the Tallizu railway sta
minutes. '
The broadenstof Mr. Chou's protest was followed by a secondtion at Linklang for two minutes broadcast of a note addressed and along the railway line for another two minutes, damaging jointly to Mr. Jacob Masono locomotive. ·
sian delegate to the United
and.
tions and President of the Securi- ty Council for this month..
the United Nations Secretary General,
Trygve Lic. This
note dem Tust the United
Nations
>
Hanother
. At 11.04 am.. Tour United States meroplanes” 'strafed", 'the' area and a rall bridge across the Yalu for 11 minutes, damaging, ona tacomaz condemn the. United tive, one passenger coach and ong guard carriage, "wound». States "aggression" in Korea and
one locomotive engineer order, the
[ing] lete withdrawal of
and one Inhabitant." Sintes aggressive
4. A: 2.80 p.m. 'one B-20 circled Man lover Antung on a roconnaisanco
complete
"all United forces in Korea. forces
The alleged attacks on Man-
churla
5. At 4:30 p.m. two F-51 Mus tangs strafed the Antung airfield
ware made in an area mission. where the Communists *werd charged by the United States ro- cently with having
200,000 then along the fitor, two minutes, killing throa
workers, wounding 19 workers and damaging two trucks-United
„Obervare, In Tokyo, sald was possible the Chinese Com. muniste u might use the alleged." attacks as an excuse for throw-ma ing the Chinese Dommunist army Into the Korean waris,
Charge
donied
not
More HK troops for Korea
The vernacular Wah Klu' Yat Po" reported yesterday that sings August 29 more than 55,000 troops of Come munist General Lin Pino's Fourth Field Army Group have passed through Kweilin on their way to the Kwangst-
A spokesman for the United Four armies normally would River which divides Manchuria Indo-China border.
The report is date lined States Far East Air Force ty total 120,000 men which is from Korea,
said that ac- "Kwellin, The spokesman
August 26," but the more than enough to fill the "The steel plant bit today was depleted ranks of the batter-cording to the Intelligence report newspaper did not indicate how Tokyo denied that any American General Lin Plao, Commander the report reached Hong Kong planes bombed anything in Man- one of the most modern in Northed North Korean divisions. In-Chlef of the Communist within the short space of twvg
An additional contingent. of Kores. It measured almost two The spokesman's statement Fourth Field Anny, will
days. person- and 20 miles
Here is the report for what. It said the spokenmeno 1 2,000 feet wide was contained in a document really lead the troops sent Long
to Aght
U.S. Department State troops, from the local garrison which they could build strong with production running prin-
leased by the National Defence of the
golbat the UN force in Korea. defence fines along the hills cipally to high quality steel, Ministry to substantiate Press re
Koren soon, according to un- Three of the four armies which belong to the 15th Army Corps officials in Washington said the will leave Hong Kong, for that the Chinese North of the town while con- cobalt and manganese. Its modern ports
but reliable sources there and been received.
official the the 55th," the.
the 38th and the 57th China and based at Hunkow for
declined to spokesman
comment contating their main effort facilities included-10-blast and munists-were- aiding the North entered Korea are identified as which was withdrawn from South Chinese Communist note had
yesterday.... electrolytic furnaces, a modern Koreans against Pohang.
in their
The designation of the fourth some time,
"At least 60 men of the 27th large South Korea.
Sudden orders sent the Corps until the note had been received. There were unconfirmed re-steel rolling mill and a
Is not known. The South Korean forces clean-
back to South China, along thờ Other important points in the armies were left behind in
The Chinese Communist pro- Independent Mortar Battery were ed up small groups of machina-ports that the North Koreanselectrical transformer yard. The
three gun and mortor firing raiders who were already building defence Japanese operated it during the document were as follows:
possed through Kwellin, where fortresses five F-51 Mustang dah ago, according to those sources. La force of 227,900 Chinese Manchuria for garrison duties Hunan-Kwangs) railway. They test note said three 3-20 Super-alerted for Koren several days lines including pillboxes on a last
"An'anti-tank unit is preparing when General Lin Pian's Fourth
Into China they pleked up supplies, on their ters, one Mosquito bomber: * and tain of fire across the main Tregu-2,500-foot high ridge six miles
directed: captured/m. The For East Air Force Com-Communist troops are now con- Field Army moved
otliar B-29's
quarter of journey to the Indo-China fron four other unidentined American to take four 17-pound anti-tank Poliang road. West of the port to- North of Kigyo
planes communicationscentrated along the Manchurian Proper in the last
were The South Koreans
involved in the five gung with them to the Korean day.
against
border and. In Korean territory of Kigyenes between the
It added, that, more troops were violations of Manchurian Sir: The battlefront, it was reported. prisoners South "American" officers said there 20
battle area
and "ready to go into the fight on the
reinforcements sent
expected to pass through Kwellin note did not say the B-20 Lomb The men due to leave are re- vere indications
the Reds today and all claimed they had Communist flipt
sources of supplies. side of the North Koreans" as by the Chinese Communists are from Changsha, and Hengyang ed anything. It said the fighters ported to have been hand-picked elements of fively two or three weeks train More than 140 tons of general as, Moscow gives the green
the have thrown
estimated travelling by the Hankow-Canton atrafed an airfield at Antung at from more than 300 in the unit divisions into the attack on the ing after they were mcruited in
purpose bombs were dropped on light. The force is made up of separate from
100,000 Koreans of the "Korean North Korea.
the mouth of the Yalu river and on the basis of their experience lines, switching yards and eight infantry armies, two cavalry Corps in the Peking regime's vall North East corner of the United
against railroad in
the past. anti-tank fighting in The report said that speculation attacked twice Nations beachhead,
It could not be learned yester- But they
bridges. Returning crews report armics. and one artillory divi
Liberation B-30 sien. on all ed good results
Korea before, the invasion start strikes.
2. The Chinese Communiets
ed. These men are
are reported
to harders into Indo-China in con- alleged air violations eftseks were leave, but it is thought they will "Colonel
Car- Richard H.
Chi-minh's listed as follows:...
go within the week.
•have agreed to, supply Lieutenant- General Walton michael, of Austin, Texas, ob-
North Koreana with 200,000 have formed the backbone of the junction with Ho Walker, commander of the served strikes madi. On the
combat troops in Peking last North Korean forces now battling Victmin's forces.
It added that the Chinese Com- at the Pusan-Teesti beachhead. United Nations" ground
forge steel plant. He sold, 'Our
month. The four armies report. The spokesman said the "Korean muntis have concentrated at in Koren, said the Communists
hit in the middle of the
ad have entered Korea are Corps totalled 115,000 men, least 100,000 mon along the 950- were making their last garp shops and main buildings, caus-
presumably the first batch, of
spokesman sald 60,000 mile frontier between Kwangsi in Korea. In a statement to the ing a tremendous explosion in at this promised force,
men of the "Korean Corps" were end Indo China: The number in South Korean Army, General
least onc buliding. Flames that
Koren back to transferred
na eludes 30,000, of Ho-Chi-minh' Walker sald the enemy WOR "over-extended". He urged the up. We could see clearly even This morning on memy force th Koreans to hold their though smoke was coming from estimated at regimental strength ground for the coming counter-
a very wide
area around the drove a two and a half miles deep offensive..
plant." United Press. Korean wedge into the South Third - Division line about four miles West of Pohang but before
South Korean nightfall had regained ground.
were
emphasised that the stacking. "Last gasp"
force probably did not exceed 26,000 men..
Lost ground
regained
enemy
CATALINA
Defence works
the
1849.
The new
The
tier.
rollway.
is rife that the troops may bunch targets at Linklang, 100 folice an attack across Kwangol's uptiver from Antung The five day when the men are due to
3. The Chinese Communists are early as March, 1948, to preparémen. building defence works of a per- for the invasion of South Korea.
were thoroughly Indoc manent, nature along the Yalu. They
trinated by the Chinese. Com-
He said
the second batch of 50,000 men from the "Korean Corps was moved back ta their homeland around Febru ary this year,
CRASHES
INTO KOWLOON BAY
Except for the sector to the North East of Taegu, where they made small gains, troops North Koreans were being
the almost all lost zot back on all fronts. The Reds suffered their biggest upset on "The Capital Division incl against the Reds South of Kigye the East coast where, after two was designed to protect the East day of spectacular gains, they ran into an unbending South West road just behind the Allied Korean defence line only three - front line.
iniles from Pohang. They also A There Was apeculation that failed to make headway, in thi the Rad push through Kigyafar South, where a heavy Ame during the past three days, was rican air: attack yesterday may designed to gain Ume during have upset their Umetable for The
an expected big offensive on the Approaches to Pusan.
The weather three Red patrols attempting to
two-engined Catalina flying boot crashed into Kowloon Bay at 5 p.m. yesterday, the impact tearing off both of the plane's wings.
munists,
· ́SA SQUADRON : FOR KOREA
Johannesburg, August 28.
Government announced
The These men bad
seen service with the Communist last night that the United States army as far South as Kwang-has accepted Bouth African
offer of B.
fighter
squadron to tung,
fight in Korea. The squadron will leave for Korea" span. Red pratexts
IE be led by
Com- Omelal - Nationalist, quarters mandant 6. van Breda Theron, regand, as an absoluto certainty 32, the most highly decorated the eventual participation of plot. In the South African Air Chinese Communist trapps. In Force Associated From. the Korean war, – adds. Amo,
ciated Press Chinese Com
five members of the plane's crew, who were giving the aircraft d test flight,' were injured Along the Naktong River front,
some seriously United States troops smashed The Flight Captain Mr. Les 1 They were taken ashura and cross to the East: bank and Murray, is understood to have immediately sent to Kowloon planes The other dour members of the simply "AL OGOR UMT" (8
their only bridgehead across the had one of his legs severely Hospital. Open troughs ukiende from the full of Toakin river near Hyonpung the Com-torn in the trash, necessitat
By crow are might the 3 China boast, and the Leochoos.munists were being encircled by ing' amputation,
Mr. J. Holland; Mr. George
Philippines.
ance
will
Acting
charged American On other pages
that
Areward They
stocked Red held ter ritory in Manchuria as being