AMERICANS MAY BE FORCED BACK TO BEACH-HEAD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23314, 25 July 1950, Page 5

AMERICANS MAY BE FORCED BACK TO BEACH-HEAD

(10 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 24. Withdrawal to a beach-head where the American troops In Korea could have a continuous defence line in some depth was the best that could be hoped for now, according to observers quoted by the Baltimore Sun’s correspondent in Korea.

He said there was confidence that an “impenetrable perimeter” could be established which would gain the time needed for American industrial might to produce the needed war material and to train men to use it.

Referring to statements that the North Korean forces would soon be brought to a standstill, the correspondent said: “Expressions of optimism do not jibe with the picture one sees in the battie area and along the supply lines.” Summing up the results of the fighting since the American troops went into action, the correspondent said: “The North Koreans have had too heavy a punch for the lightweight battalions which we have committed one at a time in an operation which one soldier described as 'throwing in flyweights against Joe Louis one at a time’.”