MORE CLASHES ON KOREAN FRONT

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27040, 15 May 1953, Page 9

MORE CLASHES ON KOREAN FRONT

“Highest Numbers In Many Weeks” <R®c- »-40 am.) SEOUL, May 14. Allied troops clashed with the Communists 34 times along the 133-mile Korean battle-front yesterday, an Bth Army briefing officer said today. This is the highest number of clashes fa many weeks. The heaviest action was around Texas Outpost on the central front, and Capitol Hill, on the east central front, where Chinese attackers and South Korean defenders were still engaged at dawn today. Use officer said foe sector was an intense-battle-ground yesterday. Latest reports showed that 147 Chinese were killed or wounded. The fighting flared up as the weather permitted United Nations land, sea, and air forces to operate on the biggest scale in foe last few days. Superfortresses last night put a North Korean airstrip out of action with 18 bomb craters on the strip. British pilots from the carrier H.M.S. Glory attacked west coast targets, while American carrier-baaed planes struck supply areas along the east coast, starting numerous fire*. Surface craft for the second successive day pounded troops and installations north of Chodori, on the east coast, the Sth Air Force announced. Sabre jets fought with Communist MiG’s over North Korea early this morning, shooting down one ana probably destroying another.