Evening star., 1951-09-13
Peiping Insists ]. n.
Admit Truth Of All
Reds Truce Charges
BY III. Assoeiotsd Press

bv me ASSoeiofed FreSS
TOKYO. Sept. 13.-The Peiping
radio threw out q hint tonight
the price for resuming Korean
truce talks would be Allied admis-
sion that all Red truce violation
charges are true.
The United Nations command
has rejected all of a long string
of Red charges. except one. It
has admitted the accidental
strafing of the Kaesong neutral
zone Monday.
The Peiping radio quoted al
Communist correspondent at Kae-
song as declaring:
"The ceaSe-f1re talks could start
again Immediately and agreement
could be reached in short time
If the Americans accepted the
military realities" and took the
responsibility for all the alleged
neutrality violations.
u. N. Command Silent.
The U. N. command for the
moment was saying nothing. It
would not even say what was in
the latest Red note handed Allied
liaison officers yesterday.
The Allied officers had just
handed the Reds a note apologiz-
ing for the straf1ng by an Allied
BPS bomber Monday.
The U. N. command has not
made the Red note public, and
has refused to comment on it.
The command usually releases
copies Of such notes as soon as
they are received. from the u. N.
advance headquarters at Munsan.
The public information Office
for the headquarters of Gen.
Ridgway, supreme Allied COM
mander, said it has been unable
to develop information on the note
after several tries. A PIO spokes-
man said he had mo idea" when
the note would be released.
Contents of Note Guarded.
Sources in Korea said spokes- /!
men at the advance headquarters
were advised from Tokyo not to
disclose the contents of the note
until specifically instructed to do
so.
When the note was first handed
over. correspondents speculated |
that it was the Reds official re-
lection of Gen. Ridgway's sug- I
gestion that the stalled negotia-
tions be resumed at a new site.
The Chinese Red radio at Peip-
ing had broadcast such a message
a few hours earlier.
Speculation grew that the COM
munication might contain a new
proposal-or a fresh complaint
from the Communist high COM
mand.
The Red officer who handed the
envelope to 1t. Col. Lawrence Hill,
U. N. liaison officer. said merely
that it was for Gen. RidgwayI
from the Communist leaders,
North Korean Premier Kim III
Sung and Chinese Gen. Peng Teh-
huai.
1t was considered possible that
Gen. Ridgway was holding up the
note until he receives the Official
Communist reaction to the note
of apology for strafing Kaesong
The Reds have not responded
officially to the Allied apology.
But the Red radio has lost no
time in building propaganda
around it.
"At last" the Peiping radio said
last night. "Ridgway has been
forced to admit that one of his
planes carried out Monday morn
ing's straf1ng attack on Kaesong
His claim that the attack was
a mistake is absurd.
Strafing Held Deliberate.
Another broadcast asserted the
straf1ng was lust as deliberate
as the previous two attacks on
Nam n's headquarters" 1t. Gen.
Nam II is the chief Red negotia-
tor at the armistice talks.
The Communists charged that
the Allies dropped bombs within
q few hundred yards of his res
1dence in Kaesong, but the Allies
have denied this. The strafing
Monday was the only neutrality
zone violation admitted by the
Allies, Of II charged by the Reds.
The Reds suspended the talks
August %.