Allied Column Rescues Trapped Combat Team

TOKYO, Feb. 16--An Allied tank column smashed through faltering Chinese Communist resistance yesterday and lifted a 42-hour siege of a valiant French-American regimental combat team on the central Korean front.

Despite their astronomical losses, the Chinese were reported to be massing fresh troops.

Meanwhile, in Washington President Truman said that Allied troops are still operating under United Nations authority to cross the 38th parallel. The extent they would cross the line, he added, was a matter of military strategy in the hands of General Douglas MacArthur.