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...Korea was stopped, and hurled back. Driven from advanced positions near the Manchurian border (see below), U.N. troops settled grimly to holding a defense line which in some places was only 45 miles north of Pyongyang. Generals who two weeks before had promised to have their forces on the Yalu River in a matter of days now discussed a "winter war." Said one U.S. officer grimly: "I think we can hold them...
...Alien Forces." How had a seemingly sure victory been snatched from the U.N.'s grasp? The first official explanation came in a communique issued last week by Douglas MacArthur. The supreme commander accused "the Communists" of sending "alien Communist forces" across the Yalu River and of concentrating possible reinforcements behind the "privileged sanctuary" of the Manchurian border. Said he: "While the North Korean forces with which we were initially engaged have been destroyed or rendered impotent ... a new and fresh army now faces us, backed up by a possibility of large alien reserves and adequate supply within easy reach...
This week, in a report to the U.N., MacArthur was more specific. He listed six instances of anti-aircraft fire from the Manchurian side of the Yalu River on U.N. planes; the intervention of Chinese Communist combat units, totaling 7,500 troops, north of Hamhung and south of the Suiho Dam; and the information from captured Chinese Red Army men of other units in action. The Supreme Commander's clipped conclusion: "[These] are mat ters which it is incumbent upon me to bring at once to the attention of the United Nations...
...Chinese had sent troops into North Korea so late in the game no one could be sure. Said R.O.K. General Yu: "It may be that the Chinese have come in to save the big [Yalu River] generator at Supung which . . . serves both North Korea and Manchuria...
...being distributed to the 5,190-man Turkish brigade soon to join the Filipinos at Kumchon. Regular supplies of tea had to be sent far up Korea's west coast where British and Australian soldiers of the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade were battling their way toward the Yalu River...