Evening star., 1951-10-12
Hopes for Korean Truce Talks
Rocked as Reds Accuse Allies
Of Strafing Panmuniom Area
Communists Say
Planes Killed Boy,
Wounded Another
By the Asseciuted Press

BY the Associated Press
MUNSAN, Korea, Saturday,
Oct. 13.-Hopes for reopening the
Korean truce. talks were rocked
today by a Communist charge
that three Allied fighter planes
strafed the Panmunjom area, kill
ing a Korean boy and wounding
another.
Allied liaison officers made q
preliminary investigation of the
Red accusation during the dark
ness last night and early today
and decided to resume their in
quiry at 9 am. q pm. Friday,
EST.
Panmunjom is the site agreed
on for possible renewal of the
Korean armistice talks which the
Reds suspended at Kaesong Au-
gust %.
Air Attack Charged.
The Reds summoned Allied
liaison officers to Kaesong last
night to investigate their new
neutrality violation charges.
The call came as the Reds and
Allies appeared near agreement on
reopening truce talks at Panmun-
JON, six air miles southeast of
KaeSong.
The Reds charged that the air
attack was made at 5:35 pm.
(3:35 am, EST-only an hour
and a half after a preliminary
truce meeting ended at Panmun-
JON.
simultaneously, a q. N. spokes-
man said, the United States Air
Force began checking to see if any
Allied plane could have been in
the area.
Complaint Is Fourteenth.
Charges of violations of the
Kaesong neutral zone were the
main reason for moving the talks.
The size of the protected area
to be maintained around Kaesong
in the future appeared today to be
a major stumbling block in the
path of resuming armistice nego-
tiations.
A U. N. command spokesman
said the Reds never had been in
formed officially that the five-mile
neutral zone no longer existed. He
added:
This gives us an implied obli-
cation to respect it,
The complaint was the 14th in
a long list of Red charges.
Liaison officers met in PAN
munjom earlier yesterday try
ing to clear the way for reopening
truce negotiations.
Four Issues Settled.
The United Nations spokesman
said the major remaining question
was the size of security areas to
be drawn around the United Ma
tions advance peace camp at
Munsan and the Red headquar-
ters at Kaesong.
Communist newsmen said four
major issues had been settled.
The liaison officers scheduled
another meeting for 10 am. to-
morrow e pm. Friday, EST at
Panmunjom.
A u. N. announcement said the
Reds today proposed small cir
cular neutral areas surrounding
the new conference site in the
Panmunjom area and the Allied
camp at Munsan. The smile
neutral area around Kaesong
would be left unchanged.
The announcement said the
Allies submitted a counterpro-
posal which would give both base
camp areas equal security"
Points Of Agreement.
Communist correspondents in
Panmunjom said representatives
of the two sides agreed:
/. Negotiations will be held in a
tent in a bean patch at Panmun-
JON.
Q. The Reds and Allies will be
jointly responsible for security in
the area of the truce talks.
8. The site area will extend in
a 1,000-yard radius around the
conference tent.
4. Negotiating parties will be
guaranteed safe conductive
Reds from the old negotiating site
at Kaesong and the Allies from
their advance truce camp at
Munsan.
The fourth point was said to
hold for the first meeting only
PRESUMABLY if would be left up
to the negotiators themselves to
arrange safe conduct guarantees
after it was known where the Red
delegation would make its head