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...five years the French have had some of their best fighting forces (including paratroopers, airmen, Moroccan infantrymen) tied up in Indo-China, fighting Reds. But only 40,000 Indo-Chinese volunteers are fighting alongside the French. Last week, prodded by French Commander General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Viet Nam's Chief of State Bao Dai moved at last to bring the entire country into the war against the Communists. Bao Dai ordered full mobilization of all men between 18 and 60. First draft call: 60,000, beginning Oct. 16. Ultimate goal: a national Viet Nam army...
...accurate mortar fire, tank traps dug across the roads, determined counterattacks. Thousands of Chinese filtered back into the top of the lost "iron triangle" which they had left two weeks before. There were bloody clashes. One piece of high ground there changed hands five times in one day. U.N. infantrymen charging with fixed bayonets were met by bayonet-wielding Chinese. On the eastern front, the Reds were firing deadly artillery barrages, mostly at night. Some Eighth Army officers expected a Chinese offensive on June 25, the anniversary of the war. The day came & went without any offensive, but the Chinese...
...four main corridors leading into North Korea, the Communists stood last week and fought ably, stubbornly. Well-executed Chinese counterattacks frequently stopped allied spearheads and turned them back. At some points, U.N. and Red infantrymen lobbed grenades at each other from strongpoints several yards apart. A Negro squad leader of the 25th Division's 24th Regiment, asked by telephone if he was in close contact with the enemy, answered: "Close contact, sir? We're eyeball to eyeball...
...week wore on, enemy resistance stiffened. Some Communist artillery was spotted 20 miles north of Seoul. Communist and allied guns dueled across the lower reaches of the Han. In Chunchon, a U.S. patrol was fired on, for the first time in six days. U.S. infantrymen ran up against stubborn Reds dug into hillside positions north of Chunchon, failed to blast them out in a bitter five-hour fight...
...valley to the west were more Communists, this time threatening Hanoi. Again De Lattre broke up their concentrations with his bombers. But the next day, on an 18-mile front in the mountains southwest of Dongtrieu, the Communists launched their heaviest attack. To the sound of bugle calls, Communist infantrymen loaded with suicide equipment threw themselves, screaming, on the French lines. After two days' steady fighting, the French threw the Communists back with a loss of 500 dead, 1,500 wounded. In the recaptured territory the French found another French officer tortured to death...