ENEMY STILL RETREATS
Possible Stand On Han River
(N.Z. Pre** AMociation—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) TOKYO, February 21. There are growing signs that the Communists are digging in north of the Han river for a determined stand against the fresh United Nations offensive which ii expected to follow General MacArthur’s orders for the resumption of the initiative. American and South Korean troops to-day pursued the North Korean forces driven from the Chechon salient by a steel ring of armour and artillery. Elements of the North Korean sth Corps, battered from t>e air, and by batteries of field guns, fled north into the hills, gbandoning equipment, clothing and ammunition.
Elsewhere- along the front Allied troops continued heavy aggressive patrolling, penetrating more than seven miles north iTCMpyong on the central front and crossing the thawing H» river 17 miles east of Seoul.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26353, 22 February 1951, Page 7
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