Evening star., 1951-09-26
Allies Turn Down Bid
By Reds for Renewing
Peace Tai k at Once
BY the Associated Press

Nations command today rejected
another Communist suggestion
that full-dress Korean truce talk!
be resumed Immediately.
The Allies insisted that arrange.
ments first be made to prevent
further Interruptions when tn,
meetings are resumed.
The Reds made their repea'
proposal at meeting of Alliee
and Communist liaison officers il
KaeSong. site Of the stalled cease.
fire talks.
1t was the third and longest
sessions held by the liaison team.
IN an effort to get the talks roll
ing again.
Communists Stalk Out.
Today's meeting lasted one houl
and 20 minutes. The first liaisor
session, on Monday, lasted an
hour. The second, held yesterday
ran only so minutes. Communist
ot1cers stalked out angrily at the
climax of an argument over Just
what ground the liaison talks
should cover, the Allied command
said.
An Allied release Wednesday
night said:
The United Nations command
liaison officers met with the Com
munist officers at Kaesong at 10
am. today, September 26 (9 pm,
EDIT, Tuesday,. - +
The Communist liaison officers
proposed a meeting of the dele
gates at 10 am. Setember 81,
which proposal was answered by
the United Nations command liai-
son officers that their instructions
were to meet with the Communist
liaison officers to discuss condi-
tions mutually satisfactory prior
to the resumption of conference
discussion by the delegations.
THE meeting of the liaison Of
f1cers was recessed by mutual
agreement at 1920 am"
Thus the Reds and Allies were
right back where they started
when the liaison talks began.
The Reds still were demanding
immediate resumption of the truce
talks by the full delegations. The
U. NJ command was insisting that
the liaison officers agree on con-
ditions which will prevent further
Interruptions of main armistice
talks.
The Reds broke off the Kaesong
talks August % after charging
that an Allied plane bombed the
conference site in an attempt to
murder the Red delegation. The
q. N. command denied the charge.
When the Reds stalked out of
the liaison meeting Tuesday. they
left no indication that they would
come back.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, su-
preme Allied commander, asked
them Tuesday night to continue
the liaison meetings. A Red. note
delivered Wednesday said they
would, and U. N. communication
officers Immediately flew from
their advance camp at Munsan to
Kaesong for the third meeting.
Peiping radio said the Commu-
mist officers had not walked out
Of Tuesdays meeting. The Chi
nese Red radio said the meeting
ended by mutual agreement.
The difficulty at that meeting
developed over the scope of the
liaison talks.
The Reds said they came pre-
pared to discuss only the date
for resumption of full-dress
armistice talks. The Allied Off
GERS said they wanted to discuss
also conditions mutually salts
factory for resumption of the
armistice talks
The Communists want to re-
sumo the talks under the same
old conditions that produced sew
eral incidents which hampered
their progress.
The Reds also want the first
order of business to be a review
of their charges that the Allies
violated Kaesong's neutrality
zone.
The Allies want the talks re-
moved from Kaesong. They say
it is too close to the main Red
supply line which is under Allied
air attack, that ground troops of
both sides are maneuvering in the
area, and that partisan groups
opposed to a Korean armiStice are
operating nearby.
The Allies say there is no need
for further discussion of the Red
charges of neutrality zone viola
tions. They denied 10 of the IL
alleged violations and admitted
two. Both of these occurred by
yoictoLre tho Alias told the PedS