General Douglas MacArthur devised the landing plans and was there to watch

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The United Nations has landed up to 50,000 troops behind enemy lines at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea.

Inchon operates as a port for the South Korean capital, Seoul, and the offensive - the first major counter-strike of the war by the US-led allied forces and the South Koreans - is currently reported to be making good progress towards the city.

Seoul has been occupied by Communist North Korea since shortly after its troops invaded the south of the country without warning on 25 June this year.

The republican government fled its own capital in the face of the aggression, which was immediately condemned by the United Nations.

The United States, which believes the USSR to be behind the North Korean action, has since backed the South Koreans with troops and other military assistance.

Operation Chromite - as the current offensive is known - began at 0600 local time.

A massive fleet of 262 ships, including British, Canadian and Australian vessels, sailed to the coast off Inchon and landed an advance force of US Marines on Wolmi Island, connected to Inchon by a half-mile-long causeway.

They took the island within 30 minutes and carried on across the causeway to the Korean mainland.

The second wave ofinfantrywas delayed by high tides, but landed at 1700 local time. Led by tanks, they pushed two miles inland under covering fire from aircraft which attacked North Korean shore batteries with rockets and bombs.

The allied landing forces were the largest assembled anywhere since World War II.

They were watched by their commander, General Douglas MacArthur, from the flagship of the supporting fleet.

After the initial landings, he signalled to the assault force, "The Navy and Marines have never shone more brightly than this morning."

In a later report to the Defence Department in Washington, he said casualties were light and the whole operation at Inchon was proceeding on schedule.

He also paid tribute to "the clockwork coordination and cooperation between the services involved."

The South Korean Commander-in-Chief, Major-General Chung Il Kwon, said the invading forces were putting pressure on the Communists near Kimpo airfield, a big air base to the north of Inchon.

There has been little resistance from the North Korean People's Army (NKPA), who are believed to have been taken completely by surprise by the attack.  

The first editor of The Sun, Sidney Jacobsen

It is replacing the Mirror Group's Daily Herald, which has been losing readers and advertising revenue for several years.

The newest arrival on Fleet Street is promising to follow a "radical" and "independent" agenda - unlike its predecessor which had strong ties to the Labour party. The TUC sold its 49% stake in the paper in 1960.

Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) and the International Press Corporation (IPC) took over ownership of the Herald in 1961.

It was previously owned by Odhams Press, which had seen it reach a circulation of two million in 1933, the highest in the world at the time.

In a bid to broaden the Herald's appeal once more, MGN, is relaunching the paper as the Sun, with the slogan "A paper born of the age we live in".

Editor Sydney Jacobsen said his new paper would be "totally independent, no ties with any party or movement... totally free to make up its own mind."

The paper's launch coincides with the announcement of a general election next month.

Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, whose Conservative party has been in power for 13 years, will be up against the man described as Labour'sthrustingnew grammar school boy, Harold Wilson.

Asked where his party's loyalties would lie in the coming election battle, Mr Jacobsen replied: "The Sun is a radical newspaper. Can a radical newspaper support the present government?"

It is a competitive time for newspapers. Faced with rising costs, the Daily Sketch was the first to raise its cover price from 3d to 4d in June, but others are expected to follow suit.

The Daily Mirror - The Sun's stablemate - has a current circulation of five million but even so it is not expected to be able to resist the price increase beyond the end of the year.

The Mirror Group is splashing out on free beer and christening mugs for new babies to promote the Sun's arrival and Herald'sdemise.

infantry: an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot（步兵）

thrusting: the act of pushing with force（有强大推进力的）

demise: transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor（让位）