United Nations Launch An Attack; Bitter Fighting Resumed
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Recd. 6 p.m.)— > United Nations troops in North-west j Korea launched a new offensive to- j day. Commonwealth and American troops pushed forward'along 70 miles of the Chongchon River tonight, and came to grips with the combined ChineseKorean Communist forces. The last hours of Armistice Day saw a new and fierce flare up in the fight- r Ing after a week of tense and unnerv- | ing lull. Advanced elements of the British l Commonwealth 27th Brigade and un. |
iof the 24th American Division, pressed across hill country and I were tonight reported to be two miles north of Pakchon, on the highway to Manchurian border. This represented an advance of five miles since it began rolling forward at daybreak. After advancing almost unopposed across a several-mile deep vacuum created by last week’s mysterious Communist (Withdrawals, United Nations troops | ran into stubborn resistance in some i sectors and bitter fighting raged as I darkness fell. I
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Wanganui Chronicle, 13 November 1950, Page 5
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