ALLIES LAUNCH ATTACKS

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26196, 21 August 1950, Page 7

ALLIES LAUNCH ATTACKS

Advances Against Communists

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) TOKYO, August 19. n-^ 1 u e d a y s ago the war looked black for the A*h e ®’ but now they are on attack everywhere, said Reuter s correspondent in Korea to-day. United Nations troops rolled the Communist invaders back four miles yesterday and to-day north of the Allied defence pivot of Taegu and slashed in half the threatening Naktong river bulge bridgehead.”

■ r h e eommuiusts swam frantically across the Naktong r !' er *tt ' a A . merlc an troops swept on them from three sides. The Americans killed and captured at least 1000 fleemg Communists.

i u T u e m Om l n !l niS x : r ?? t ca ™ e at the end of a three-day battle —the battle of the Naktong bulge—to clear the enemy bridgehead on the east bank of the river. s

The main part of the North Korean Fourth Division was estimated to be in the bulge when the Americans counter-attacked on August 17. American headquarters announced that contact with the enemy had been broken in an area north of Kunwi. Patrols penetrating four

tended Naktong river line in efforts to determine soft spots in United Nations defence positions. Sporadic small arms and automatic fire continued to fall into United States and South Korean positions throughout this afternoon. Pilots reported that the enemy build up continued in the 25th Division sector, with troop concentrations 30 miles west and south-west of Masan.

to six miles report that no enemy resistance has been encountered.

Probing actions continued by Communist forces along the ex-