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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1950.
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SEOUL LIBERATED A tight
Red garrison fleeing Northward in disorder
UN forces closing the gap on six Red divisions
GI PRISONERS
FREED
Tokyo, September · 26.
United States and South Korean troops battled weakening enemy rearguards in the flaming streets of liberated Seoul today while the bulk of the Red garrison fled in disorder toward the 38th Paralló).
At the same time, an American, spearhead racing North from the old Pusan beachhead was, reported only 24 miles from a junction with the Seoul front forces that would trap the remnants of six North Korean divisions.
A spokesman for General Douglas MacArthur said there was no sign that the Communists intend to make a stand anywhore South of the 38th Parallel border botwean North and South Korea.
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He said the six depleted enemy divisions South of thq. closing gap of the massive. United Nations offensive have already been enveloped for all practical purposes,
General MacArthur announced,
mining Communist forces in Chonan 1s 21 airline miles North South West Korea
West of Chongju. have been enveloped by the near linkup of the American spearheads Seuth from...Seoul and North + from Chochlwan.
The mokesman said elements of six Red divisions remain in In a triumphant communique af | the South-West sector and ca- 2 pm, that United, States, and timated them at 80 per cent of South Korean Marines and Army effective strengths of September troops had completed the. enve-1.16. lopment and seizure, of Seoul on Monday three months to the day after the Communists. In- vaded South Koren.
The enemy is fleeing in dis- order toward the 38th Paráliel 28 miles North, General Mac
Arthur said.
Red rearguards weakening
Front despatches said that enemy rearguards fought furious- -ly last night and today to delay Allied pursuit but were weaken ing. The bag of prisoners was mounung,
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to sald, there wor no positivo thdication the Communists intend make o.sland anywhere South of the 38th Parallel
or
The spokesman estimated Com- munist casualties from September 18 to September 23 inclusive at 23,000 killed, wounded lost from ether causes. He estimated that the Keds Buffered 2,450 casualties on September 24 alone in the area between Hamchang❘ and Andong along the Northern front and. 375 more from. Andeng to the coast.
The spokesman ald Communist resistance in this area was re- duced to sero, the casualties re- gulting because they don't run fast enough. Thay were being pursued by ROK forces and Nations pounded by United
ROK forces along the flames and a 10,000-foot amóke gall Fund
over the
formarefront captured larges South Korean capitat: United quantities of Communist ammuni-
artillery had tion, guns.. and equipment
The centre of Seoul was la
States heavy
pounded the city all night in are using them in pursuit.
an attempt to rout the Rid
diehards. The Americans: Had hoped to spara the capital but
tün fanatioal Communist dofenom left them no choice but to blast out the enemy with stari and fien. United
Fress correspondent Jack James reported that Sdoul was shrouded with smoke today na Americans and Korean loyalists dugout Communi
defenders hil
clore range in the capital's (nar- row, winding reta.
Yongdong captured
And
The Americana captured
The air observers report was obtained by the Eighth Army from the air forces joint opera tlons centre where air strikes are co-ordinated. It is presumed the troops spotted were elements of The the First Cavalry División: report was not clear as to whether the American troops were actual ly inside the city.
squeeze
This W.9. tracked vehicle inches cautiously through the narrow gap between the thatched wative huta Ining a village street North of Taegu, near the central Korean front. (AP Photo),
Pilot killed as Navy plane crashes in New Territories
The
The pilot was killed when a Navy Soa Fury plana
crashed in the Now Territorios yesterday. accident occurred shortly before 11am. when the single-engined, plane was on a routine practice flight.
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CRESWELL PIT DISASTER; 83 MINERS KILLED
Creswell, Dorbyshiro, September 26.
raging underground fire trapped and killed 83
men today at the Creswell cool ming, Eighty of the men were caught behind a wall of flames and choked to death by gas and fumes. Three others wore brought out dead by follow workers who cropt to safaty on their handı
and knees,
Smoke and Intense heat drove back rescuers and hope for the trapped men WAS abandoned when fire had been burning nine hours,
01-
The decision to give up rescue attempts and seal off the burning
mlue was of the section nounced by Sir Hubert Houlds- worth, Chairman of the East Mid- National lands divizion of the Coal Board.
Peking charges
against U.S.
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London, September 28. Communist China has launched another move to get her representatives to appear He said a cherk, showed before the United Nations to
men were missing.
More than half of the approxi- mately 200 men working in the nine when the Are flared up etcaped, crawling through denge smoke and rubber tumes to reach the main shaft,
press charges that US. planer Chinese terri- have bombed
This time her goal is tory. the General Assembly..
The official Soviet nows agency, Tass, reported last night that the Peking regime has sent a new This afternoon Bir Hubert note to UN oficiale demanding and the Mineworkers Union, in that a new bombing complaint be Joint statement, said, despite put on the General Assembly recque efforts, "It was not pos-agenda. sibla to rescue any of the trap- ped men." *'.
The statement declared:
The
demands that note also Peking pokemon participate in
the Assembly discussion of the
"All possiblo steps, were tokom cha China's Foreign Minister, possible to prevent it spreading- no toray "stiil
to emmbat the fire but it was in- Mr. Chou En-lai, warned in the
After a full inspection under-
that should the Assembly submit to the ground....It was the nonlindus manipulation
United of the opinion that there was no post States"-" and remain "deaf and sibility of any of the men re- dumb to this criminal aggression maining in the districts affected by the United States, they cannot being alive.
avoid their share of responsibl}}- ly for kind
kindling e
of war the Games in the East
note, charged, that A U.S. The no B-20 had dropped 12 bombs on Autung, in Manchuria naat, th Korean border, last Friday night, injuring two persons and causing property damage, kt
Bound to fail
"It was alsó canaldered that any attempt to recover the bodies was bound to fail and such at tempts would inevitably involve further loss of life.
"It was then unanimously re
• London, September 26.
tolved that no course remained The Chinese Communist except to seal off the affected lender, Mr. Mao Tse-tung, arid | part of the pit. This work is now According 12 Information his commander-in-chief, Gen-
taking place." gathered on the spot, the plane oral Chu Teh, called for crea- was said to have first hit the
The machine, which weg. The body of the pilot had been
but from HMS Theseus but tem- removed by an ambulance, porarily stationed at Kat Tak, members of the RAF, Military An Eighth Army comihunique was burned and wrecked after and civil Police were still on announced that the 24th Division it had crash-landed at the foot guard, cordonning off the ares.
Hit hill-top was within five miles of Yong- of Hadden Hill, a few hundred dong and that the Fecond Divi-yards beyond the 23 Miles sion captured Kochang.
along the Main Road The communique said: "Troops of the 24th Division near Dill's Corner.
"China Mall” When the this hearing. Yongdong afternoon, two months to the porter arrived on the scene short- day after United Nations forces ly after the mishap, broken party abandoned the town and with of the plane were seen scattered drew to the South..
the hills and the paddy felds within a radius of 100 yards from the spot where the machine crashed.
were
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"Yongdong is about 25 miles from Kumchong which the 24th Division took yesterday. *.-
"Reconnaissance elements of the First Cavalry Division reachi ed the Thegu-Séoul route today, entering Chochiwon, 25 miles North of Tacion,
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"A task force of the Division moved North West to-
miles. day, advancing 15
"A regiment of the Becond Division took 'Kochang, daptur- Ing prisoners, guns and tone of ammunition. Other elements of the division were actively on-
over
Casualties in accidental air attack
Tokyo, September 28. A British spokesman said gaged in clearing inomy pockets today that 21 British soldier's from arda North East and were killed and 20 wounded South East of Hyopshon:
in the accidental bombing and "Another element of the divi- | strafing by American planes, on sion crossed the Nam river and Saturday, occupied Ulryong.
Yongdong today and liberated South Korean
the first American prisoners of war from a North Korean gaol near the alty. Three American prisoners of war wero Uberated by tank troops Division Was heavy going to all con of the Twenty-Fourth cerned and at the day's end the who passed through Yongdong on their way Taejon at about five tank troops shot off the gave the
Aliles could report
uttle
progres
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in fighting for Seoul,
The
heaviest fighting seemed to
to
successes
|
of
Waiting wives and children of the trapped man when the de- alain was announced;");
top of the hill to the North of tion of a "powerful" People's A long moan went up from the road when it was flying in Army and "beration"
and Tibet, Radlu a South Easterly, direction. 12 Formosa then touched and out off the Moscow reported today." high tension election wire in. stalled along the Northern adge
of the road, shot ECTOSE
Historic session
The Brourity Counoli meets today in an historie session that may bring the first Invitation to Communist China to participato In a debate in the world or ganisation, adds a United Press report from Flushing, NY. The Communist complaint that
action President Truman's
in The Domes broke out soon sending the United States Seventh Mao, in a speech to a sofect after
midnight in a conveyor Ficet to Formosan waters con- stilutes Amrican aggressión the group of workers and heroes of belt. The mine has an elaborate stil -road and crash-landed at the the People's Army" in "Puking, network of more than 15 miles against Chlua was listed in the foot of Hadden Hill, about 60 said China, faces two great of such belts--one of them-1932 Brattera for consideration dr yarda Bouth of the road.
tasks--building a powerful army yards long-to carry-coal-from the Council's provisional agenda.
But reports persisted that Cuba The exact time of the crash to defend its frontiers and creat-the coal face to the main shaft.
would propurs that the entire It was Britain's second on Farmom, issue, be removed from could not be ascertained аз по
no ing a people's economy..
mine disaster in recent wedloj. eyewitness..could be located in Goneral Chu. commander of Thirteen men were killed and the Council's gunda so it could this: desolated area. However, the the Red armies which overran 118 others werd China Light and Power Company China, told the group, that the had received information that, at
of peace required the two days before they were res which also meets in a plenary on Sep- session today to continue its gen- 10.45 am, part of the power building, of powerful People's tomber 8 near Now Cumnock,erral dapate. This can be done by supply In Sheung, Shui and Fan Army to, deiend the peace.” Scotland.
a simple .vote of any seven mám- Ling was cut off. It was presumed
The Creswell mine fa-i mils béns of the Council. from Creswell Crage, anated The United States has agreed beauty spot near Welbeck Abbey, to a full debate on the Chinese the home of the Duke of Port Communist charge of American land. The colllery, employing degression on Formosa. However, more than 1,500 workers, the it was opposed to Javitinga centre of a community of 6,000 Peking delegation to come to the persons. Associated Press. well United Nations at this time.
Five children. killed in
The spokesman said, however. Malaya attack
that operations that day must to broken into three phases--carini-" ities suffered before the strafing, as a result of the strafing, and ofter the strafing
He said the casualties before. and after the accidental, oir) atz trek wers somewhat greater thait those suffered as a result of the attack itself but no details were
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The Bouth Korean. "Army rolled Northward at blits pace today" against negligible・・ op position after capturing Chinbo, 20 miles North West of Vongdok: The British spokesman said. | Air, Vico Marshal C. A. Bouchler, The ROK Capito; Division re-senior British Liaison Officer to took Chinbo at 6 pm. Monday: General MacArthur's Headquar pushed Northward by foot and tert, returned from a two-day by truck all night and took visit to the British brigade but Yongyang, 10 miles North of made no official comment on the Chinbo, his moming. "divi- |secident other than to report on con boat headed for of
investigation by the Far East Air
be in the Moppa district West of door of the gaol and Nemsen mountain where United three prisoners C. Rations and States Marines were thrown back chewing gum were Sergeant nearly half mile by... an excly.
The prisoners were nk attack and fought int Clare Frank Freede, of Long morning tank all day today to regain Monday Beach, California, Sergeant 1st night's positions,
Class Marlaine Macaril, Heavy Ares raged through the Colong, South Dakota, and Fri- entire area until it was impossible vale. Martin, of Santa Cruz, Call- to distinguish landmarks from | Fornia.
the vantage point at the Western Martin said: "When those 0.1 end of the Namsan fidge!!!
walked into that gool, I cried." Freede said: 17 dropped a couple
A spokesman for Gentral
MacArthur aid today that for of tears- I thought I was too old miles to the North. The Third French give up
all praction! purpates the
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of Chinbo 17 miles mus Korean Third Divi-Force was under way--United
The South South today and by 11.a.m. had resched aton recaptured Yonghae at 7.4m. Press.
songdamkong, four and a half to cry, but I found out different Division was rolling along the Sanchok-Poliang ([enasfo] highway *They were prisoners of the toward Tyonchae, 14 miles North North Koreans for 25 days of Yonghae against little or no
American troops were obj
resistance. sorved by fighter aircraft pliots. The Communist, troops appear- at the town of Chonan, at 5.30
today, an Eighth
molar and Army Chonan is only 25 miles south of Osm where siements of the from the Inchon beachhend
another outpost
the
Saigon, September 26."
Singapore, Beptember 20. Five children thron boys: and two girls were killed and nine persons were injured Chinese Communists whon
2 last - night (throw." arkhand.
grenade Into a shop at Kuala "Pila Negri Sembilan.
In the Pahang, State Gurkha sergeant" was`killed. "and four, other Quekhas In- Jured when guarițias fired me a sanurity force convoy, and caused ha vehlola
Crash
into ravine.
In Johore other guerillas fired at
at taxi, killing * ↑ Bikh constable riding in it and
Finjuring a passenger Security forces.killed two woman quérités and wound.! edyone male · guerillains
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He said: "The tasks presently confronting us are annihilation of the brigand remnants (of Chiang Kal-shek), liberation of Taiwan and Tibet. defence of peace and construction of a rich, strong now. China,"
The broadcast was reported by the official Soviet Monitor here, United Press,
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SA SQUADRON FOR KOREA
Tokyo, September 20. The arrival here of the advance Haison staff of the South African Air Force squndrer toy with the United Nations- foreta irt Korea was announced by the Far East Air Forces Houdquarters in Tokyo today,
The staff is headed by the Commandant, Jan D. Pretorius assisted by Major D. Swanepoel, both of Pretoria Reuter.
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