“MAJOR DEFEAT IN NORTH KOREA”

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26262, 6 November 1950, Page 7

“MAJOR DEFEAT IN NORTH KOREA”

Rashness Alleged By Correspondent (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 5. “It is now clear that reckless tactics and over-confident strategy have betrayed the United Nations forces into a major defeat in North Korea,” says the “Supday Times” Tokyo correspondent, Richard Hughes.

“Two South Korean Corps, after racing ahead in disregard of General MacArthur’s High Command, are now wandering among snow-capped guer-rilla-infested peaks and ravines, while one United States battalion at least has been overrun and written off in the Unsan area.

"The dispersal of forces finds strong American units, which could have continued the advance were they united, now faltering in the north-east and retreating in the north-west, solely because they are separated. 'South Korean and American forces approaching the Siberian border are stalled against strong, well-entrenched guerrillas in the mountain passes.

The delusion, which deceived General MacArthur himself, that the Chinese Communists would not intervene in any circumstances, has been brutally dispelled.

"A eostly, frustrating winter campaign now appears inevitable.”