THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1950.
US, TURKISH
TROOPS
RUN GAUNTLET
OF RED AMBUSH
Seoul, Nov. 30.
The United States 2nd Division and the Turkish Brigade in Korea were trapped tonight south east of Kunuri after losing hundreds of dead and wounded in an attempt to run the gauntlet of a Chinese Communist encircling movement in North-West Korea.
About 1,500 men made a desperate dash down a narrow road through a machine-gun and mortar barrage, leaving hundreds of dead and wounded behind, before reaching the safety of the British Middlesex positions.
Wounded lay tonight in free- zing cold in the midst of the
Communist ambush.
The Middlesex got to within 25 yards of the Chinese machine-gun nest but were pinaed down by the enemy throwing numerous grenades.
A member of the regiment said: "They kept well under cover. However, there was one Chinese standing on the skyline, picking up grenades from his feet and throwing them at us. He was a fanatic.
"All the boys had a bang at him but we did not get him." Lieutenant-Colonel Man, the Commander of the Middlesex, today directed American tank
An officer in the first jeep shouted: "Where is the hospital? All I have got is a broken arm, I can keep going."
REDS WELL DUG IN
The Commander of the 38th Regiment, Coloncl George Peplo, of San Antonio, Texas, was among the early survivors to reach the Middlesex posi-
tions.
He immediately visited an aid post set up in a railway station to inspect and encourage the wounded.
Among the Tommies helping the bleeding GI's was Private Douglas Swindalls, of Congla- the Communist posi-ton, Cheshire, He gave tea and
soldier cigarettes to tions, which were pouring mor- tar fire on Gls still filing pain-inangled forearm. fully down the path.
fire on
with a
Private George Farmer, from the East End of London, and Private Ivan Spiby, of Leioe- ster, tenderly removed the bodies of one
one Negro and one white GI from a jeep and laid them beside the first aid post.
TANKS CET THROUGH "Give that hill hell," he said ug the tanks blasted position where the bodies of Chinese could be seen through binoculars.
three
"That is where I lost an officer yesterday,"
fold Colonel Man the Americans.
Lieutenant John Burgess, of Richmond, Surrey, was in charge of evacuating American wound- ed from the air station.
on
The Chinese fired with ma- chine-guns and rifles all along the road but their positions could seldom be seen. They casionally could some smoke be were well dug in and only oc-
seen. Reuter.
The ambush today took place Nepal Ministers
the Kunuri-Sunchon road,
which runs parallel
railway line,
with the
Four Amrican tanks were thrust through the road-blocks
at 12.30 p.m.
Air reconnaissance reported this morning that Communist had closed to within infantry 400 yards of the Middlesex position.
AIR STRIKES HELP Late this afternoon fighters put in a number of air. strikes to help the battered convoy through the mountains.
They strafed the hills only 400 yards in front of the Middlesex positions.
The first tank to arrive from the main body was loaded with GIs, many of them wounded. It was commanded by Lieutenant William Mace, of Tacoma, Washingtozi.
soon
A senior infantry officer on board
John was Lieutenant Knight, of Farmington, New Mexico. As
Tommies the as helped the wounded off, Knight said: "We had better get roll- ing. There is the whole of the 2nd Division behind us."
But vehicles only through from the
See Nehru
New Delhi, Nov. 30.
Australian Troops Fly
To
Korean
019
Front
Australian troops unload from an American transport plane at Kimpo air- field in Korea to join the United Nations forces. The Aussies' arrival to join the allied UN troops already in Korea was a welcome addition in the tough struggle
Wait & See Attitude In Taipeh
Taipeh, Nov. 30. Nationalist China officially adopted a no comment attitude on developments in Lake Suc-
ahead.
Gen. MacArthur's Confidence In Ultimate Victory
Tokyo, Nov. 30.
long as the develop- A man with a pipe in his hand is slowly pac-
cess us ments were confined to a de-
bate, but once action is taken ing back and forth in a sixth-floor suite of the Dai Major-General Kaiser Shum- then it will have something to Ichi building in Tokyo. The man is General Mac-
say.
said Reds
shere Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepal's Minister for .Defence,
Arthur. and Major-General
source A high-placed Bijaya Shumshere
that since the Chinese Jung Bahadur, are in the United Nations, even
There are no ringing tele- full military action against the Director-General of Foreign
to break his chain of Chinese Reds. Affairs, who are now in Delhi though temporarily, they have phones
to all already revealed
coun- thought. There is no telephone for talks with the Government tries represented there "how in his office. At intervals his For General MacArthur pacing of India, met the Indian Prime they go about their business of aide cautiously opens the door Minister, Pandit Nehru, today trying to impose their will on at lunch at the latter's re-the rest of the world." sidence.
on the right of the General's desk and brings in a stack of Meanwhile, the Government papers. The two Nepalese Ministers spokesman, Shen Chang-huan,
no formal
:up
and
back and forth is good exercise, his doctor says, and his highly polished oxfords crush the thick pile of rug as he, measures his way from border to border. later had tea with the Indian told the United Press that his A buzzer summons people he
he walks It is reminiscent of the critcal There were President, Dr Rajendra Prasad. Government is naturally watch- wants to see while
awaiting word days of the Korean war when talksing all developments in Lake back and forth
from the front where the the General "walked today.-Reuter.
Success and Korea very closely. Chinese hordes invading Korea down the aisle of his plane. Asked if Generalissimo Chiang
soil are hurling themselves Members of his staff sat side- Kai-shek's Government might renew his offer to send forces against the retreating United ways in their seats waiting for
his decision.. Nations forces. to Korea, the spokesman said that no new approach, no new Now he sits down at his desk,
General MacArthur has since request and in fact no proposals his back to the window along said the North Koreans could whatever have been made to the
south wall, and
thumbs have pushed the United Nations the latest
forces out of Korea if they had news despatches. Doubtfully he reads not made mistakes, and re-reads those from Lake Success.
General Was Kept Awake
Ottawa, Nov. 30.
Lieutenant-General
Nationalist China, by the United through Charles Chief of Canadian Nations or by the United States Foulkes,
on the subject. General Staff, complained yes- terday to the Ottawa Board of Control that a street lamp near
keeps trickled his home
him awake decimated nights.
General Foulkes suggested GI's who got through today the Board paint the side of the were mainly from the 38th and globe facing his flat.United 9th Regiments.
convoy.
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Press.
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He said "our loyalty and de- termination in the anti-Com- munist cause needs no reitera- not evade or We shall tion. shirk our responsibilities toward Nations, Anything the United this Government can do will be done."-United Press,
LATEST TESTS
PROVE THAT ISPINACH PRESERVES
THAT. GIRLISH
FIGURE
Will the Chinese Communists make mistakes as costly as those of their North Korean The 70-year-old General beally? The General is waiting. lieves his heavy responsibilities and watching. are shared by the diplomats and that they must either solve the Those who know him well problem their way or untie his are certain he is confident of hands so that he can conduct ultimate victory.-United Press.
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