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Allies Smash Chinese Along 'Sniper Ridge'

BY ED HYMOFF

SEOUL - (INS)- Suicidal assaults by 5,000 Chinese Reds against triangle hill and sniper ridge were crushed Monday by Allied troops in savage bayonet, knife and fist fighting.

But Pike's peak in the triangle hill sector was held by the Chinese after American seventh division troops were pushed from the crest and fought their way back to the main allied line.

A front dispatch at 12:15 A. M. today said an eerie quiet had settled over triangle hill but the Chinese on Pike's Peak could be heard singing.

An American officer said the Reds apparently were trying to whip up their morale.

Wild charges of the Chinese against Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge were supported by 40,000 rounds of howitzer, artillery and mortar fire.

Allied big guns and warplanes countered with tons of exploding steel shells and fire bombs.

American troops smashed the enemy's Triangle Hill assaults 300 yards from their crestline.

At Pinpoint Hill on Sniper Ridge the South Koreans gave ground in the morning but surged back in vicious close quarter combat to capture the position in the afternoon.

Seventh division officers said the enemy had plentiful reserves and the Allied troops on both hills worked swiftly to repair shell-blasted defenses in anticipation of new attacks.

The Reds, in charging through their own and Allied big gun fire, were mowed down by the hundreds but no official estimate of the enemy's losses was available.

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enemy's casualties was available.
On cave-pocked Triangle Hill the American infantrymen uncovered 1,000 yard long tunnel reaching into American positions. Twelve Chinese huddled in the tunnel refused to surrender and were killed by satchel grenades.
The tunnel apparently was part of an old gold mine.
American seventh division doughboys encircled on Pike's Peak broke through the Chinese ring in brutal hand-to-hand fighting.
Withering Allied small arms and machine gun fire cut down pursuing Chinese before they could reach main allied defenses.
Twenty miles to the West Rok Ninth Division troops, pressing a violently fluctuating battle on Iron Horse Mountain, surged to the crest and then pulled back to permit Allied artillery to slam surviving Reds on top.
In the air war, B-26 light bombers blasted an estimated 95 enemy supply trucks in North Korea.
Fighter-bombers rained high explosives on Red troop and supply concentrations south of Wonsan on the East coast for the second straight day.
Fifteen Okinawa-based superforts hammered big troop and supply areas near Pyongyang for the fifth night in a row.