Evening star., 1951-10-13
Liaison Talks
On nPeacePar|ey
Due 10 Resume
U. N. Investigators
Hear Family Of Boy
Killed in Strufinq
BY the Associated Press

ounQdy IN QuSUy UCCle Panmunj ON
in another effort to get the stalled
Korean armistice talks rolling
again.
The meeting is scheduled for
10 am. g pm. Saturday, EST.
Negotiations were interrupted
Saturday by a Red complaint that
three United Nations warplanes
strafed the fringe of the Kaesong
neutrality zone Friday. killing a
12-year-old boy and wounding his
2-year-old brother. United Ma
tions liaison officers investigated
The Reds and United Nations
Allies were nearing agreement on
administrative differences holding
up resumption of full-dress armis-
tice talks when the Communists
protested by telephone Friday
night that three Allied planes had
strafed the edge of the cease fire
neutral zone.
The Reds broke off the talks in
Kaesong August %. charging that
Allied planes had bombed the zone
the day before in an attempt to
the Red armistice delega-
ton.
Boy Tells Of Strafing.
A 15-year-old Korean boy told
U. N. investigators Saturday that
bullets from strafing Allied war
planes struck his two younger
brothers while they were fishing
on Friday.
Associated Press Correspondent
Robert B. Tuckman. who accom-
panied the U. N. liaison officers
in their investigation of the Red
complaint. said correspondents
at Panmunjom generally felt
the Communists had presented
enough tangible evidence to back
up their case-although there still
were enough unknown factors to
make a clear-cut opinion impos-
sible."
The Allied findings, probably
will be announced by Gen. Ridg-
ways headquarters in Tokyo.
Father Appears.
The investigation Saturday was
dramatized by the appearance of
the dead boys father. The bearded
elderly farmer hurled bitter re-
mark at Allied officers and inter-
prefers.
U. N. officers said he had been
coached. They said in the pre-
llminary investigation Friday
night he addressed his grief and
bitterness largely to the Reds.
This is the story Of the alleged
strafing, as told to Allied liaison
officers:
The 15-year-old boy was fishing
in shallow stream about half a
mile north of Panmunjom on the
main highway to Kaesong late
Friday afternoon. His 12-year-
old brother. holding their 2-year-
old brother in his arms, was
watching.
The Oldest boy said he saw three
planes and dived under a bridge
but that his two brothers were hit.
The youngest was shot in the
left arm.
Investigators also were told that
three North Korean soldiers walk
ing along the road saw the planes
and jumped for cover. Presuma-
bly, they identified the planes for
the Red high command.
Mother Brings Son.
While the investigators were at
the bridge, the dead boys mother
arrived. carrying the injured o
year-old in her arms. The young
ster's left arm was bandaged. In
his right hand he held a turnip
and gnawed on it from time to
time.
AS the q. N. team got ready
to leave, the boys father hurled
a harrangue at 1t. Richard Un-
derwood, one of the Allied in
terpreters.
The aged farmer, clad In ira
ditional white. complained that
the shooting occurred in the peace
conference area and that he would
not have minded sacrificing his
son if it had been in a war zone.
1t was this harrangue and tie
shift of the farmers attack from
the Reds to the U. N. Allies that
led U. N. officers to say he had
been coached.
AS Air Force Col. Don Darrow
OF Tacoma. Wash, one of the
U. N. officers, was about to get
(See TRUCE, Page A-3.)