TOKYO: Aggressive United States and South Korean troops sent the Communists reeling back on two fronts on Wednesday [Aug 9] for the first time in the 47-day-old Korean war. The United States Marines scored a five-mile breakthrough on the South coast. Elements of the 25th Regiment plunged nearly within sight of Chinju, which airmen reported the Communists were preparing to evacuate. At the other end of the Naktong river hard fighting South Korean troops smashed a Communist bridgehead eight miles north of Waegwan.

UPA Correspondent Earnest Hoberecht says the South Korean troops attacking like “fighting fools” sent 2,000 Communist troops fleeing in disorder back across the Naktong river easing temporarily the Red threat to Taegu, the South Korean provisional Capital. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in New Delhi,] the sale or disposal of all movable property including seized property in custody of Custodians will cease forthwith, a Government communique said here… . The ban is to enable the owners to exercise their right under the Pakistan-Bharat Agreement of June 1950 on movable evacuee property.

Published in Dawn, August 10th, 2025