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CHEERFUL PICTURE Cautious

OF WAR IN KOREA

Taegu, Augūs v

24. Major-General Hobart R. Gay said horo"today, "Unless the enemy, makos good by September 15 he will be finished. We shall be too strong for him" General Gay, Commander of the First Cavalry Division, believes that there are now 500 American tanks in Korea. "I guess there are not more than a few dozen enemy tanks opposite my force in position along the Naktong River around Taegu," he added.

He declined to forecast how long it might take to win back South Korea, but said that W would be important to recapture the rice bowl of the South West before the harvest in October.

Korean

Tough dofońco

The greatest United Nations Asked whether the Com- One of their thrusts has been munists could launch an ol-mado directly from the West, deficiency at present la the lack fensive capable of pushing from the direction of Mazan, of men. The Communists, Gghting United Nations forces into the another South coast port held by in the hills, have so far been abl

40 break every tentative Amer- sen, General Gay said, "It's the United Nations forces.

Repeated North

at-ical advance by simply cuttling probably too late now?"

to drive along the coast the rear supply itnes, tempts

Any successful American push towards Pusan have been con lained-ond, at the moinent of

a

must be supported by infante. writing. are being repulsed, by

to clear out and keep open the Division. the American 25th

supply routes behind the advan

the menacing Pusan from the North North Koreans can repeat the

The North Koreans

are als? cing columns. Otherwise, Of the four Communist divisions West. Hiere, in the Pugongal area, tactics that so far have brought supposed to have been opposite they and attempting to drive a

United Nailons them success folding back" its his First Cavalry in the Tacgu wedge into the

face of superior frontal weight, arca laat week, General Gay lines. If they succeed they would doubted whether any but the cut through to the South coast allowing the Hinck of communica- tion to stretch out this and then North Korean Second Division between Masan and Pusan.

pinching the

them

from the

car. had more than 50 por cent of its

It has taken the American: strength.

here some time to learn this This threat to spilt the United lesson. But it now seams that they eliminated have taken to heart and have Nations forces was temporarily at least a few days no

no intention of repeating the age when the much-battered 24th disastrous, Westward Infantry Division, spearheaded by from biasan where the 1st United States Marine columns recently had to fight Brigade, wiped out a Communist their way back through bridgehead, which had cen munist road blocks established established

Naktong between them and their cammond across the River in the Pugengni area.

ports," offacing this bridgehead United Nations emphasis today after a three-day bloody battle is on "bulld-up" Until this is the American forces re-establish completed, the men here are ed their defence line along the fighting for one thing in the Western bank of the river and Korean war which, at this stage,

ased the pressure on Pusan,

more precious than terrain. The Commusists will มด They are The decisive

doubtedly make stage of the Korean war is today rapidly drawing nour,

"When further reinforcements arrive the Communists won't bet; able to hold us in here for lang". he said.

the

General Gay described Taegu front today as without doubt the quiclest we have known in five weeks in the line."

Tank gunners were practice- Jiring. Engineers were working to the rear. Bazooka teams had pulled back for training with new rocket launchers. But everybody was ready for whatever might

come.

Decisive stago near

Within a matter of weeks the, war will be either last or wen by the United Nations forces here.

Or, rather, it will be won or Jost by the Communists, for the initiative is still in the hands of the North Koreans. The invaders are still setting the pace for the outnumbered American and South Korean forces. .

In

Another at.

advance advancing

Com

tempt soon to break through the conds 73 to hold off

towards Pusan. if they do they will find a tough defence line awaiting thăm

time.

The

1

In a battle for

Communists

are. weli aware of this. And in the next The second main threat, that tee weeks they can be expected Tacgu, is of more political that to try harder than ever before to

win this battle-Reuter. strategie Importance.

The sprawling city of Taegu stands at the North West corner American defence perl- of the meter in Southern Korca. It lies straddled across a fertile plainy In the meantime. Lieutenant-where the rice crop is ripening.

But scenic beauty is no con- Genoral Walton H. Walker, the Commander of the United Nations Folation to General Walker, for ground forces here, can do only Taegu to the military mind one thing-attempt to hold his ugly. Ita position on the low plain

to defend. Communist makes it hard to gainst the thrusts,

military considerations alone were That line is thin. In some cases involved, it is highly probable South It is pitifully thin. And the Com-that the American and munists seldom take long to find Korean forces would withdraw

tomorrow to the high ground' the weak spots.

few miles behind the city.

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optimism of U.S. leaders

Tokyo, August 24.

Cautious optimlem over, the Korean war was expresand here today by Admiral For- rest P. Sherman, Chlot of the United States Naval Opera- tions, and General 3. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, on their franding visit return from a to Karon.

Sherman, .: Admiral

Press conference, wald that a remarkably fine job had been done under difficult olreum stances

at

The fact that the United Nations front in Korea had. romained where it was for some time and that offensive United Nationa strikes by

forces had been possible at all} speaks for itself, he said..

General Collins stated that adoolded decline 'In Com- munist morale was noticeable. Admiral Shorman and Gon- -eral. "Colline: laft Tokyo. by. pigno tonight for Washington,

Reuter,

Britons ired by Taipeh paper's editorial

Taipeh, August 24, British firms in Taipeh, have withdrawn their advertise- ments from the mimeographed tabloid "China." News," ap- parently in retaliation agains! its editorial attack on Augus 23 against British polley in

China.

The editorial, captioned Don't Sabotage Peace" aroused the ird of the small British community itere.

The "China News" publisher said it had received many ex- presslona of protest from British residents.

The tabloid today backed up its editorial stand with quotations

from a speech made by the Mar- quess of Solisbury In the House Lords recently in which he voiced similar sentiments regarding Bri- tish policy-United Press.

ELECTION ISSUE THE MOST OUTSTAND-

Washington, August 24

The Republican national chairman, Guy Gabrielson, said today that the Party intende to make an issue of the Korean crisis in the "autumn Congres- slotal campaign oven if the Democrats did not want to talk about it.

the

As a result General Walker has to shuttle around his scanty

Mr. Gabrielson said the Re reserves to plug up, the holes. In

nublicans would not join any the defence. As fast as he stops

But General Walker is defend-conspiracy of silence with one rap, another bronks out clse-

Democrats by

to discusa y refusing Tacgu as a pelitical and where. The situation today is ing that of a Dutch boy with two morale factor. He knows th Korea. He made that statement in answer to the Democratic na- thumbs trying to plug a hundred political importance attached b

South Koreans to Taegu. And he tional chairman, William Boyle, leaks in a dyke.

Like the Dutch boy. General alse realises that a retreat even who told nowsmen the Democrats Walker's problem is to decide if it is camouflaged by another did, not intend to make Korea

havoc with thefa campaign issue. which are the most Important name plays

Mr. Gabrielson Rape to keep plugged until auf-norale of the South Korean army.

The chief importance

of becoming clear that the adminis- cient reinforcements arrive,

avoiding any blow to morale attration and its followers realise this particular moment-ils tha that their policy blunders, which the spirits of the United Nations contributed to the surrender of forces here are beginning to half of Asia and half of Europe recover from the bitter effects of to Sovlat domination and culmin- retreats for-the-past two months ated in the Korean war,

A feeling is beginning to come neither be alibled nor covered over the soldiers here that the up. United Press. days of retreat are over. Normally

Main throats

At the moment his attention is fastened on itwa main threats one to the cliy of Taegu, the South Korean provisional capital, and the other to Pusan, the vital South coast supply port.

Militarily, the threat to Pasar the further forward lone goes in ja war, the greater is the feeling is the most important. Ther

of pessimism. In Southern Korea bustling port city on the South Eastern tip of the Korean penin-today, that does not hold true.

Infantrymen in foxholes are sula is the 'main

Inlet for the now beginning to regain their stream of United Nations men shattered conẞdence. They like and supplies.

their commanders, believe that 1 The Communists have recently

only the Communists can be held made several determlord at- for another few weeks, then the tempts to gain a throttlehold on war will have been won for the the Incoming stream of rein-United Nations. forcements.

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And that indeed is the situa tion. Men and materials ard flowing In to help hold the Com munists. SAN more men and materials must come before the United Nations troops can go over to the offensive.

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Lack of men

Just how long, that will br

Impossible to estimate ata this moment. The most that can be reliably stated' is that ]. It will be fate September at (east beförm Gentral. Walker, has sufficient reserves at blaj disposal to even, bogin thinking about anything other than ide

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