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YONGDONG ADVANCE COSTLY British warships off Korea FLARE-UP OF

UK Cabinet decisions on aid in Korea

London, July 25. The British Cabinet is be- ilaved to have considered at a meeting today to what extent Britain could give further aid is the United Nations forces in Korea,

The Cabinet was also re- ported to have considered tightening mansures to pre vent sabotage at home, fol. lowing the anouncement made in Parliament that the tiro and explosions in Portsmouth on July 14 were caused by sabotage.

It was learned from usual. ly reliable sources that cer. taln decisions have heen taken on further British ald in Korea.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee. is expected 10 make A statement In Parliament tomorrow on the decisions taken.-Router.

U.S., RAAF

planes step up activity

Tokyo, July 25. American and Australian plantes today destroyed or Red tanks, 15 damaged 21 bridges, an armoured car and raked enemy supply lines in stepped-up activity.

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Ten tanks, despatches from Korea sa, were destroyed. Far East Ale Force spokesman in Korea said more were dam aged,

The

64 air missions in 101 sorties, were in close co-ording- tlen with operations. of the U.S First Cavalry Division on the Taejon-Yongdong highway front. The planes ranged Also Kwoпpju, deep in South West Korea, where Red forces ranged unchecked by token forces of South Korean police.

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Night operations At the same time, announced the Fifth Air Force would step up night operationt against the Communists, wi have been moving man and tanks cloaked. in darkness.

"We have got to pin them down at night as we have them pinned in the dny," said Major GengralEarl E. Partridge at Fifth Air Force Headquarters in

Korca,

He said the Reds were able to maintain steady ground pressure because of night operations.

ciated Press.

FOR RED INVADERS

Americans withdraw but inflict heavy casualties

N. KOREAN GAINS IN SOUTH WEST

Tokyo, July 25.

The North Korean Reds drove the Americans out of Yongdong, Western anchor of the Allied line, in bloody fighting today and sent a flanking movement plunging South of Taejon to within 88 miles of the United States base port of Pusan. The fiercest Communist offensive of the month-old Korean war forced a general American retreat of Yongdong and adjoining fronts, But the Reds paid heavily for the few miles of territory. Air force ob- servers counted 1,000 enemy dead in the hills North and West of the town.

Major-General Hobart Gay, commander of the First Cavalry Division, con

firmed the American withdrawal from Yongdong. General Gay said at a Press conference that the present situation was "nicely tided up.

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The First Cavalry troops fell back three to five miles to new positions. The with-- drawal was reported to bc orderly.

A front despatch sald North Korean forces 1,000 strong im- mediately occupied the town. But

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reports from military officials sald the Communists had not yeu moved into Yongdong.

The Americans pulled out to escape encirclement.

Borde 130 miles to the South Weat the Communiste completed. the conquest of the West const and the Bouth Wart corner of Korea against little more than token opposition from Bouth Korean Police.

The drive to the Scuth coast' threatened to turn the Allied line now hinged in mountains South East of Yongdong and pur position to strike the Reds in a

rear at the American, from the supply road from Pusar on tho South East cost.

Outnumbered First Cavalry units pulled out of Yongdong, 23 miles South East of Taelon, to escape encirclement after beat- in off nearly four days of savago North Koreau altacks.

Communist troops and guerillas

S@P-| we sow the Communists pull off the hill. We thought they

Reds caught in bad enough and we reoccupied

flanking Fire

U.8. Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea,

July *26.

Six hundred North Korean. troops were caught in a flanking fire by the U.8. 26th Division elements North East

of Yongdong) today in

attook;

early morfared heavy

The casualties when they dilacked positions vacated by Ameri. cans during the night.

The enemy withdraw but attacked again three hours inter with about 900 man. The American forces

using artillery, Infantry and sup. porting planos, again routed the Rede, who again duffered heavy casualties.—Associated Prest.

A planned

did surround two American units withdrawal but they were reported to ba fighting their way slowly back to

the American defence line South There was no street fighting for Ensi of Yongdong.

Yongdong. It was a planned Last night two Mustangs cought Front despatches told of the withdrawal, ordered when the a truck column Weat of Yong- severity of fighting. Twice the elty was practically encircled. deng in bright moonlight. and enemy threw roadblocks up be American sighter planes strafed atrufed it. General Partridge said hind one American unit and Muju to the South West of Yong- the invaders have been moving twice they were broken.

dong, and several hours later a motorised columns 25 miles long Cuerillas put United States large column of smoke was seen at night with lights on.-Asso-artlilery positione temporarily for miles. The fighters strafed under mortar fire. One setillery 1.000 Communist troops and larga

stopped a Red Infantry at- | wavehouses in Muju. tock only 25 yards from its gun Two North Korean planes straf- enplacements.

ed American positions and circled Low flying spotter planes re-another American area withoub norted that the area behind the ring on it. American positions were honey-

Americans The withdrawing which six to eight North Korean ches of the Kup River. combed with

caves in cach of blew up two bridges over, bran- were hiding. Some guerillas wer found carrying collapsible. rifles which they hid beneath their trousers or undershirts.

MANILA REPORT

ON TYPHOON

Manila, July 25.

A lyphoon, estimated to be centred 200 miles North to North Fast of Basco, off the Northern

of: Luzon, tip

has not yet de- veloped a definite movement

prick it Is not certain whether it will "pproach closer to the

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Weather

pines

according to A Bureau announcement today,

Winds of 30 miles

an hour were expected within a radius of 230 miles of the storm's centre, The Bureau gald. Winds of 15 miles velocity were forecast over Bashi and Balintang channels, Luzon Strait, Manila

Bay and Lizon.

over

past

Gusts of wind accompanied by rain had been sweeping Manila Intermittently the two days--Uniléi Press.

The weather

At 9600 GMT (4 p.m. NKOT) un live

kompisensum «gutem dominates 8 China, the Northern part of the, China - Sản. Form and the T'acide down to the Fo Formowa, ́ ́. A, shallow, ventre Located over the Gulf of Tonkin, and a impical depresalon appears to be forming aboút 100 míled E`of'Fariżowa) - £

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WAR

Word of the American with. drawal from Yongdong flashed

by United Press war correspondent Robert Bennyhoff with the First Cavalry Division at the front at 9:40 a.m. GMT. He said the Communiste "con- tinued to advance along other fronts in the same general

area."

the hill. As soon as wo 'did they attacked us from the rear and the left flank, These men had gone to the back of us and come up from behind us,

"We called for mortar fire and got it and the same thing hap- pened all over again, They just kept right on coming. We withdrew to our previous posl- tion again and this time stared, there..

Red drive on

West Coast

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This ploture—che of the first of British Naval unita în recent operations off the Korean cose--was released in London. It shows the British Destroyer Consort coming alongside the Carrier Triumph to refuel-{AP photo).

Philippine ship sinks after striking mine off Woosung

Search for

giant submarine

The 1,200-ton Philippine steamer San Antonio sank off Wooiung at about 9 am, on Mon- day after hitting a mine while she was about to enter Shanghai, it was learned late, last night.

SABOTAGE IN BELGIUM

Brussela, July 28.

Thirteen bomb blasts cut the main lines throughout Belgium today in the biggest flare-up yet of anti-Leopold sabotage.

dynamite explosion tore up a section of the line leading into France at Janeppe, near Mont. Two bombs blasted, tracks lead- Ing out of Tournal. Saboteurs cut 20 signal Tiros at, Quenast be": tween Brussels and Mons.

In Brussels Itself, nalls were

sprinkled over a large stretch af

main

leading out to

the

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| Mons, 20

A grid pylon was destroyed by an explosion at

mal Roux, near Char lerol. Explosions, cut the main line from Brussels to. Tonamur in three places, Other, bilusis ripped up tracks between,- Namur and Charlerol and Namur; and Tirio= ment?

The

Breach in line'

carest explosion to Brussels occurred at Poitsfort, about seven miles away.

* Two bombs, tore a breach in the line leading Into:6chardeck. huge marshalling yard in the Brussole suburb., Workman this morning found an "unsxploded bomb on the samą line.

Lines leading out of the greas Bouthern industrial city of Liego. were breached in three places."

More than 18,000 workers in Walloon French, speaking half of Belgium's Brabant province, struck work today. In proteas against King Leopold's return to

throned

the

Strike leadors Enid the stop

work protest would last 48 houra but, the workers: Wern meeting later to decide on iis exáct dura” tion.outer.

Two Chinese crew members are missing, two were seriously injured and six suffered lesser in- juries. The injured were taken to a hospital in Shanghal. The rest of the crew were unOn

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hurt and have safely arrived in Shanghai, July 24.

Confirming the report, the sole too close to telands which Two Canadian Navy frigates Sintoon Shipping Company

they occupy. and a squadron of Royal Cana- here, agents for the vessel; dian Air Force planes search said that the San Antonio ed the North Atlantic today sank almost immediately after The fall of

for an unidentified glant sub-hitting a mine near Woosung South West Koroa, and Kurye, marine believed to be Russian. This was the third mine disassel 85 miles to the North East, wee Rear Admiral E. R. Mainguy, ter.oft Woosing within a month announced by a spokesman of Flag Officer of the East Coast, Victims of the first t

Directed at bridge two were the the the Eighth Army Headquarters revealed detalls of the search and two Panamanian: vessels, In Korea. The Rada had seized said "the submarine sightings re- Valve and Santos, which sank the South Korean naval base parted in the area are being

rapidly

mines on and port of Mokpo, 20 miles fully investigated.”

June 24 and 26 North West of Haiman, and the

The San Antonio sailed from highway and railway junction

for Shanghai on

on July of Namwon, 14 miles North West of Kurye, less than 24 hours earlier.

Foreign observers believed the Communists would try to drive East of Namwon' and Kurye in 'a swift bid for seizure of the Im- portant communications centro of Chinju, 59 miles from Wusan

The Reds also were in position at Namwon to strike North to ward Kumchun or North East toward Tague astride the main supply highway and railway from Pusan serving both the First Cavalry and 25th Infantry

Divisio Divisions.

The Communist column in South West Korea was estimated at 2,500 to 3,000 men strong. However, General MacArthur re-

altely.

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