AERIAL RAILWAY RESCUE

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26353, 22 February 1951, Page 7

AERIAL RAILWAY RESCUE

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British Commonwealth patrols, operating five miles south-east of Cnipyong, ranged more than three rniles in front of their positions without contact, while South Korean units on their right flank continued to push north unopposed. American armoured patrols plunged four miles to the north and 10 miles to the north-west of Wonju througn a vacuum. The Communists appear to have pulled back more than 10 miles in this sector.

American air-borne troops, fighting surged forward north-west °* Chechon in pursuit of the broken and dazed remnants of a North Korean division which a few days ago threatened the United Nations key supply communications centre of Chechon. ’ Americans and South Koreans smashed desperate counter-attacks north and north-east of the town and then moved rapidly forward in a bid to outflank and cut off the retreating North Korean rearguards. British armoured patrols came under heavy machine-gun. mortar and artillery fire from the north bank as they patrolled along the edge of the Han river eight miles north of Kyqngan. Further west an American infantrv team was pinned down by intense cross-river fire as they ranged the banks of the Han. south and east of Seoul.

Flare-dropping aircraft lit the river banks to enable American artillery to smash an attempt by a Communist company to reach a small island off the south-eastern outskirts of Seoul while Allied troops destroyed a collection of small boats tied up at the waters edge further to the east.