WITH GEN MacARTHUR`S HQ FOR KOREA: North Korean troops struggled desperately back across the Naktong river today [Aug 19] as American marines, after 72 hours of bloody fighting, routed them from their bridgehead on the east bank. The Americans threw the North Koreans back four miles north of the key town of Taegu, in the centre, while South Koreans continued successfulactionsin the east coast.

Under heavy bombardment from British warships other South Koreans landed yesterday on an island on the approaches to Inchon, a vital Communist west coast supply port.

Theymetnoopposition.NinetySuperfortresses blitzedmilitaryandindustrialtargetsinNorth Korea, dropping nearly 800 tons of bombs, mainly on marshalling yards and port facilities at Chongjin 40 miles from the Russian border. Reuter`s correspondent Alex Valentine said the Communists in the Naktong bulge were `cut to ribbons`. News agencies [Meanwhile, according to news agencies from Calcutta,] Entire villages in the Bharati State of Assam were swallowed up by the great earthquake which rocked the `Roof of the World` on Tuesday [Aug 15].