Evening star., 1951-09-25
Reds Stalk Out,
Asks
Them 10 Return
Allied Leader Sticks
To Same Conditions
For Reopenine ToIks
BY the Associoied Press

TOKYO, Sept. 25.-Communist
Officers angrily stalked out of a
meeting today at Kaesong but
Gen. Matthew D. Ridgway asked
them to return tomorrow for an
other try at reviving the stalled
Korean truce talks.
The Reds walked out when
Allied liaison officers insisted on
discussing conditions under which
the truce talks could be resumed.
The Allies earlier told the Reds
that Kaesong was not a salts
factory site.
The Communists wanted to get
the truce talks going right away
But they demanded that the first
session be given over to plans for
processing string of charges that
the Allies had violated the neu-
trality of Kaesong.
Message Sent by HelicOpter.
Eight and one-half hours after
the Reds stalked out of this morn
|ing's meeting, an Allied officer left
the advance camp at HunSan with
a message for the Reds.
He made the extraordinary
night flight to Panmunjon. near
Kaesong. by helicopter.
The message. signed by the
senior Allied liaison officer, Col.
Andrew j. Kinney, under instruc-
tions from Gen Ridgway, said:
Despite your unilateral action
in recessing the meeting today and
your abrupt departure therefrom,
I am prepared to meet with you
tomorrow >. at 10 am. 90 pm,
EDIT, Tuesday, to discuss condi-
tions mutually satisfactory for re-
sumption of the armistice talks"
Situation Left Unchanged.
The talks have been stalled 80
days.
That word Conditions left the
situation just where it was when
the Reds walked out of today's
meeting.
The tense, 50-minute session
ended with explosive suddenness
Col. Kinney had proposed that
both sides discuss conditions which
would guarantee uninterrupted
talks by the negotiators.
Chinese Red Col. Chang Chun-
san f1atly rejected the suggestion,
said the meeting was ended. and
headed for the door.
The belief prevailed at Allied
headquarters that the Communist
walkout did not signal a complete
breakdown of the stalled truce
talks.
Final Breakof Doubted.
A source pointed out that a final
breakoff could be called only by
the highest levels of the Red or
Allied commands-not by laison
officers.
The Reds broke off the higher
level cease-fire talks August %
after charging that an Allied plane
bombed the Kaesong neutral zone
the night before. The Allies in
vestigated and denied the charge
The Red high command had
tried in vain to resume the full
dress armistic discussions today
instead of the liaison talks.
But the move was saddled with
a provision that the first session
set up machinery to deal with a
long list of Red charges, already
denied by the Allies.
Ignoring the Red offer, the AL
lies sent Col. Kinney, Marine Col
James c. Murray and South Ko-
rean 1t. Col. Lee 500 Young to
Kaesong by helicopter to bring up
the subject of conditions.
Before even entering the meet
Ing, the Reds had notified the
Allies that Red liaison officers
could discuss only one thing-the
time for resuming truce negotia-
tionS.
Today's abbreviated meeting was
the second in a row by liaison Of
flcers in attempts to get the nego-
tiations going again.
Yesterday the Allies had told
the Reds Kaesong was not a salts
factory site and had urged that
another site be chosen.
Kaesong, in Western Korea. is
the only town of any consequence
the Reds still hold south of
Parallel 38. The Allies have
argued that it's location made it
possible for the Reds to manu-
Ifacture incidents intended to give
the false impression that Allied
Iplanes and troops had violated the
neutral zone.
AP Correspondent Robert Tuck
man, who went to the meeting to-
day, said unarmed Korean and
Chinese Red Soldiers lined the
road from Panmunjom on the
eastern fringe of the neutral zone
to KaeSong.
The Allied motor convoy, carry
ing service personnel and news
men, and the liaison officers, who
landed near Kaesong in helicop-
tiers r1r0ceaded mast fhnSe Soldiore