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News & Public Service · January 9, 1951 · 8 min · 1,382 words
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From the W.T.J.S. Newsroom, Sam Lawler reporting, a line airman of an order to shoot on sight in a person other than women or children, sighted behind enemy lions in Korea. The order is aimed at men in uniform or civilian dress and is designed as a counter-blow to the communist tactic of disguising soldiers
in civilian clothes, and the red practice of using civilians as a screen for advancing Chinese and red Korean troops. A new enemy drive currently is in the making about 28 miles south of Seoul at Osan, some 10,000 Chinese, including Mongolian Kalarimin, are gathered at Osan in preparation for a new attack against retreating UN forces. The road-setter was abandoned by Irigard 8th
Army unit yesterday, thousands of other communist soldiers are regrouping at Su-1, 8 miles north of Osan. Communist patrols already established far as 14 miles southeast of Osan, and a UN company was brought under enemy mortar fire 14 miles below Osan this morning.
Meanwhile in Central Korea, Red units so far have failed in fierce efforts to cut in behind allied troops falling back from abandoned One Jew 55 miles southeast of Seoul. UN soldiers retreating from One Jew now are considerably less than 95 miles from the northwest pivot of the old Pusan beachhead, the communications center of Wagwan.
And the Republican floor leader in the Senate, Kuanathweri of Nebraska, promises an early Senate test on the question of sending more American troops to Europe. a vote would be the first test of President Truman's program to center the defenses of the free world in Europe, where he says that he'll seek action soon on a resolution barring
further deployment of U.S. forces to Europe until Congress fixes an overall policy. Mr. Truman said nothing in his State of the Union message about sending more troops abroad, but he described the North Atlantic Pact nations as the heart of the defense effort, and he left no doubt he has no intention of turning back from the course of helping friendly nations
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