ENEMY GAINS GROUND

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26211, 7 September 1950, Page 7

ENEMY GAINS GROUND

U.N. Reverses In N orth fN.Z. Press Association-Copyright) , TOKYO, Srptember 6. t b° re r, dr T wins of .he United I^X S defence fine ‘ r ' Sh ' l.v SSSf&lf***- «™> P«H- Foor .. >*, point. f„, A m . rila V»?So" 1 h" K”r.S l,al ”' 1 report'?.' S“ I ,Ss»s";” »« lines before Masan. A fierce battle wis t State l ??«* Division this afternoon and manures Cental Xlndt" HneS attache' 1 *=Kimentai command posts were zo.iang, east coast anchor of the 120-miU hntti fell to the North Koreans last night. Thl ’snu ‘h kT' Division withdrew tn non . a # • -feoutn Korean Ist SXwest of Poling 0 defenS,Ve positions 2000 yards The American defenders of th«> k..„. • east of Pohang are in danger of being cutoff 6 S ‘ X m ’ ® S south ’

Yongchon, a highway junction 20 miles east of Taegu, was reported in enemy hands, but a later frontline dispatch said that “friendly forces are back in the city.” However, the enemy menace here had stopped traffic on the main eastwest road and rail route at Hayang. 13 miles east of Taegu. The North Koreans wrested Tabudong. 12 miles north of Taegu, from the United States Ist Cavalry Division. The Americans stopped this Communist drive this morning nine tniles north of Taegu. Another enemy force is reported to be pressing an encircling movementat Changnyong. 22 miles south of Taegu. American Marines west of Yongsan pushed the diminishing enemy bridgehead farther away from the road between Taegu and Fusan. The United States 25th Division annihilated enemy forces of 1000 35 miles west of Fusan. British troops last night threw back an enemy attempt to cross the Nekton a river in their sector. One company of British troops had to fight its way out a'ter being isolated.