Reds Near Kumsong Offer No Opposition
The Florence Morning News, Florence, S.C., Monday October 22, 1951.
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUAR-TERS, KOREA, Monday, Oct. 22, 1951, - (AP) – Chinese Red resistance faded suddenly today on the fog-shrouded hills southeast of Kumsong. Allied forces to the northeast were only a mile from the key road hub.
United Nations infantry pushed unopposed through a mass of rolling [?] hills five miles southeast of Kumsong. There were indications the Chinese had abruptly withdrawn from those central front positions.
No contact with the Communists was reported during the night south of Kumsong itself. Allied forces seized a commanding hillcrest a mile from the former Red stronghold and took most of another Sunday.
Elsewhere along the front, action was limited to patrol clashes.
AP Correspondent Sam Summerlin said ground forces reported fighting with three Communist tanks north-east of Kumsong – indicating an Allied encircling movement – but this was not officially verified.
The U. S. Eighth Army communiqué Sunday night reported the battle for Kumsong, 30 miles north of Parallel 38, was the only major action along the entire Korean front. Elsewhere fighting dropped off to minor patrol clashes.
In the air war, nine B-29 Superforts assigned a “very special” target in North Korea had to turn back when fighter cover failed to arrive. Instead, the bombers dropped their 65-tons of 100-pound bombs on rail facilities at the frequently-raided East coast port of Hamhung.
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