FURTHER U.N. GAINS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26441, 7 June 1951, Page 7

FURTHER U.N. GAINS

Communists Falling Back

(R f n- am ) . TOKYO. June 6. AJ 1 le . d troops fought along muddy roads for gains of one to three miles last night and to-day, against the Chinese Communists withdrawing toJ ron triangle 20 miles inside North Korea.

The Chinese fell back under relentless Allied pressure as much as three miles from the positions they had held yesterday north of Hwachon in central Korea.

Allied troops are now less than 10 miles from Chorwon. the western anchor of the Chorwon-Kumhwa-Pyonggang triangle—a key concentration area.

Earlier messages said that the Chinese Communists suddenly abandoned the outer bastions of their Chorwon line in central Korea before a relentless attack by Allied infantry The enemy troops, after fighting furiously for every trench and bunker of the position guarding their “Iron Triangle’’ redoubt, fell back nearly two miles to a strong line. Every United Nations advance, even where enemy pressure had decreased, was made In tough, muddy fighting and over rugged hills. A Reuter correspondent said that Allied infantry stormed the corpse-littered hillsides to wrest the crests from the dogged defenders. The Allies had to pay a price in killed and wounded for positions won in the face of the heaviest Communist artillery and mortar barrages of the campaign. Clear skies enabled the Air Force to step up its close support and bombing missions with heavy sustained strikes at the Communist main supply routes and supply dumps. The Bth Air Force claimed that it had cut rail and highway routes in a dozen places.