TOKYO: Seoul, the capital of southern Korea, has fallen to the advancing columns of the North Korean army, and the Government, which yesterday evacuated 25 miles south to the walled city of Suwon, today (June 28) moved out still further south. Army spokesmen at Washington also announced the loss of Kimpo airport ... one of the two main airports in South Korea.

North Korean spearheads, after capturing Seoul, punched a wide gap in the ... defences running across the Peninsula... . Two of the American fighters thrown into the battle ...

today by General MacArthur, Allied Commander in Japan, were shot down ... .

Gen MacArthur had ordered Marauder medium bombers and rocket carrying planes into the air battle for the capital.

Meanwhile, British warships, including the aircraft carrier Triumph and the cruiser Jamaica, were standing by in Japanese ports ... in the evacuation of British and American citizens from South Korea. After hours of confusion, with radio links intermittently broken and resumed, first report that Seoul had fallen came from ... Pyongyang Radio, which said the Northern Korean Army completely occupied the city at 3 a.m.

(GMT). News agencies