Attack .In Rear Expected

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26186, 9 August 1950, Page 7

Attack .In Rear Expected

The Communists are reported to have managed to get patrols across the river all along the line, particularly in the sector defended by the 24th Infantry Division. The United Press correspondent Mid: “The North Koreans threw at least another battalion of infantry into their Naktong river bridgehead last Hight. “The Communist bridgehead is in a five-mile loop of the river 30 miles south of Taegu. “The United States 24th Division, Stretched out on a thin line along 40 miles of the river, is braced for an expected Communist attempt to break out of their surrounded bridgehead. “American staff officers expect the isolated Red patrols, which are slipping across the river to the north and regrouping. to attack from the rear during the next 24 hours. ‘The American 35th Regimental Combat Team is reported to have driven to within 10 rril°s of Ch'niu.

™northern flsnk of the American south coast offensive—a gain of 10 miles since the offensive started The Amen ans on their southern flank, however, are stalled by a heavy North Korean attack.” Reuter's correspondent with the bouth Korean forces on the northern battlefront says that Communist troops yesterday drove a wedge 4000 yards wide through the South Korean {me and by nightfall had penetrated to high ground 30 miles north of Taegu. The thrust carried the North Koreans two miles inside the new southeast corner .of the defence line, which waa manned only two days ago. The Southerners fought strongly all day but failed to recapture an important hill position near Pian after “YJL hours of counter-attacking. The hard-pressed Southerners were being reinforced last night to try to hold a three-pronged drive by three Red divisions pushing on the 45-mile arc o* tbo