BRITISH TROOPS IN ACTION IN KOREA

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 September 1950, Page 5

BRITISH TROOPS IN ACTION IN KOREA

TOKIO, Sept 6 (Reed 1 a.m.).— British Battalions iK Korea fought skirmishes last night with Communist troops in their rear, a British spokesman announced today. The spokesman added that Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Middlesex troops moved into the battle line on the Naktong River last Monday night on the left flank of the United States Ist. Cavalry, eight miles southwest of threatened Taegu. They put some mortar fire ac’ross the river against Communist movements.—Reuter. be in enemy hands, but a later frontline dispatch said: "Friendly forces are back in the city.” However, the enemy menace there had stopped traffic on the main eastwest road and the rail route at Hayang, 13 miles east of Taegu. North Koreans wrested Tabudong, 12 miles north of Taegu, from the United States Ist Cavalry Division. Americans stopped a Communist drjve this morning nine miles north of Taegu. A ground attack which was made by the Communist 13th Division forces carried the invaders a further two miles along the Tabudong-Taegu highway. Another enemy force is reported to be pressing an encircling movement at Changnyong. American Marines west of Yongsan pushed a diminishing enemy bridgehead farther away from the road between Taegu and Pusan. The United States 25th Division annihilated enemy forces of 1000 35 miles west of Pusan. British troops last njght threw back an enemy attempt to cross the Naktong River in their sector. One company of British troops had to fight its way out after being isolated.