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HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1950.

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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

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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,"

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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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