Show 1 t SEES VICTORY r s SEOUL K T 0 1 j jT NEARS j I Allied Offensive Closes Trap r On Red Force Forcer rf r- r Combined I INS S an and AP TOKYO 26 American Sept Tuesday Tuesday Hard Hard driving forces led by tanks crashed to the center of Seoul Tuesday and overran all wooded heights surrounding the city including foot high South mountain While Americas America's top field commander announced that victory victory victory vic tory is now in sight U. U S. S forces plunged to Duk Soo palace and the administrative area of ol the Korean capital International News Service war wai correspondent Frank Coniff reported reported re re- re- re the thc battlefront battlefront battlefront battle- battle ported from blazing blazing- front that all the hei heights around Seoul have ha been taken South mountain the thc pivotal point where hard die Communist fanatics had held out against re repeated repeated repeated re- re attacks dominates Seoul's modern business and residential district Hold bold Only Center Only the actual heart of Seoul remains remains re re- re- re mains mams in the hands of an estimated reds who are being pounded by a terrific new artillery barrage opened after seizure of the commanding commanding commanding com com- manding high ground bround Two vo other columns of American American Ameri Ameri- can and South Korean marines stabbed into the capital from the west and north I A. A P P. correspondent Don White White- Whitehead head licad who iho crossed the thc Han last Wednesday with Fifth regiment marines and Sunday with First regiment leathernecks said gran bran walled ite-walled Duk Soo is considered the heart of the capital The Thc other government go buildings are slightly to the north See Sec Capture Soon While the four pronged four ed drive into nto the thc city pushed ahead a U. U S. S First cavalry armored patrol sweeping up from the south sped into nto This put them only 10 miles from the Seoul beachhead Its swift drive iO drive 70 miles in four days threatened days threatened soon to close the thc gap between the two fronts and seal tens of thousands of red Koreans in the south Allied forces scored sharp gains all along the southeastern front from rom on the Sea of Japan to o on the thc southwest But allied commanders were throwing throwing- thc the greatest weight of man nan power into the thc battle battlo to symbolic Seoul The Thc U U. S. S and South infantrymen infantrymen in- in of the Seventh division See Sec Page Pasc 4 Column 1 General Says Victory Now in Sight As Marines Storm to o Seoul Palace Pal ace Continued from c Oll One wept swept eastward across the Seoul- Seoul Suwon von road and jumped the Han southeast of the city Artillery barrages temporarily silenced red gunfire on South mount mountain in a foot hill looking over the south approaches to Seoul Col Lewis Lewi Chesty Pullers Fullers First regiment reg marines who had crossed the r river cr from near Yon Yong- Yong dung po suburb on the southwest joined in the barrage b from southwest southwest southwest south south- west city hei heights Fresh reinforcements cements poured into the beachhead to throw their I firepower into the climactic battle I for COl the cil city Airborne infantrymen 2500 2 OO landed Sunda Sunday at Kimpo airfield 1 I northwest of oC Seoul One hundred fifty Cily planes nes shuttled the airborne troops complete with battle kits from Japan They had just arrived arrived arrived ar ar- rived the there 1 by ship from the United i States Slues hs At 2 22 miles g west t of oC Seoul a fl sh South I olean di- di ision landed Doth Both outfits were started Inland nd without delay to join in the fight fight- ing Picture Within thin Seoul This was the picture within Seoul The Seventh Se division fought ou ht to toward toward toward to- to ward South mountain the main mam red defensive e position in the southern south south- ern section To the west the First marine regiment seized the highest points in the Tong Mak Iak Sang Sang- district From these the they poured mortar and artillery fire into red led positions positions positions on South mountain and into the sprawling Seoul army bar bar- racks South Korean marines were throwing throwing- their weight in the drive from the west While the four allied columns ground round into Seoul Seventh division division divi i sion elements clements fanning southward rolled lolled through Suwon into Osan 30 W miles south of Seoul They rhey recaptured large laige stores of or American equipment en t which t a spokesman said the reds had seized in the fall fan of in July was the town where trailblazing trailblazing trail trail- blazing blazing- 2 division Americans American entered the Korean war in m early July only to be pushed down the heartbreak highway all bloody way to Storm Sturm Hack Rork up HI Road American forces were storming to back bacle up talc highway in mighty strides from the south Tilt The 2 division lIi captured 30 miles northwest of ot against ag bitterly resisting Clements elements of the Communist Ninth d division i v i s i ion o n. n The Communists had been ordered to hold open the main mam route north at all costs as asan asan asan an escape gateway for crumbling red Korean divisions di in the south But while the division smashed against this red led stron strong strong- point First cavalry armored patrols patrols patrols pa pa- made a wide end sweep to the north against ag virtually no resistance and rolled all the way to ju Chong-ju 71 air miles northwest northwest northwest north north- west of The First cavalry foot toot troopers leapfrogged Ta jon scene of the bitterest American defeat of or the war It was there the division had lost its commander Maj Gen William F. F Dean in retreating combat Presumably still sUll was in red hands But Communist troops there like tens of or thousands of or others in the south were being trapped Gen MacArthurs MacArthur's headquarters rs said the red Korean Fifth Filth divisions division's divisions division's divisions division's divi divi- sion's commanding general was captured Sunday south of ot Yong- Yong dok dole along with much enemy equip- equip men mentA ment t. t A U. U S S. S air force torce spokesman said fighter lighter strafing Cing attacks killed reds red Sunday along the entire I southeastern front I B scattered propaganda leaflets telling Korean reds how to o surrender Other B hit rail lines ines and bridges in northwest Korea orea The surrender leaflets were hav hav- haing having ing ng their effect Communist troops walked into allied lines in swelling swelling swell swell- ing ng numbers holding out the I pamphlets I Air force planes Sunday set sel a anew new Lew record of or sorties 26 more than han the old mark of ot five days ago igo North Korean Sunday ques lues broadcast by the Moscow radio adio and heard in London said the he reds were fighting fierce defensive defensive de de- de- de battles on all fronts |