BATTLE STILL RAGING

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27098, 22 July 1953, Page 9

BATTLE STILL RAGING

Fierce Fighting In Korea (Bee. 10 P-m.) SEOUL, July 21. Fierce fighting biased across the Korean central front today with six Booth Korean attacks as Communist and United Nations staff officers met in secret session in the Panmunjon truce building to hammer out technical armistice details. In six attacks the South Koreans launched against the Chinese Communists they gained all but one of their objectives, Bth‘Army headquarters said. United Nations briefing officers said that the South Koreans counterattacked the Chinese for the possession of Sanhwon Hill, a dominant ridge in the centre of the Allied salient near Kumsong, but failed to recapture it. The ridge was lost two days ago to a force of 3000 Chinese Communists. These officers said that the Chinese troops attacked two front-line positions near Lookout Mountain, to the east of the main central front. After three and a half hours of close combat, the South Koreans succeeded in beating them off. This morning the Chinese were still holding Berlin and East Berlin outposts on the western front which they seized from the American Marines yesterday. United States Far East Air Force headquarters announced today that the Allied planes flew 1130 sorties yesterday, including attacks on the Sinuiju airport runway at the mouth of the' Yalu river on the Manchurian border. The bombers returned to attack the airfield after dark last night.