Evening star., 1951-07-06
Red ChiefsGive
Final OK 10 Plan
For Truce Talks
| U. N. Planes Ordered
! Awoy From Route of
Delegates to Porley
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Saturday, July T.
Communist commanders today
gave final approval to arrange
ments for preliminary cease-f1re
Jalks-five hours before their
emissaries were scheduled to leave
for Kaesong.
In a midnight message, the top
Red generals acknowledged the
United Nations guarantee of safe
conduct for their emissaries.
The Allies already were putting
the pledge into effect when the
Red Pyongyang radio broadcast
the eighth message in the series
of radio negotiations.
Planes Barred From Route.
U. N. war planes were ordered to
keep away from the highway down
which Communist negotiators will
travel today for cease-fire prelim-
mary talks in Kaeson.
1t. Gen. o. P. Weyland, Far East
Air Forces commander, issued the
order few hours after opposing
commanders completed arrange
ments by radio for Sunday meet
| ling-and guaranteed safe conduct
to the emissarieS.
The Communist delegation leaves
Pyongyang, the Red Korean capi-
tai. at am. today g pm. EDIT
FridayD
The Communist convoy will fly
white flags as it travels down the
bomb-pocked Pyongyang-Sariwon-
Namchongjom highway to Kaesong
3 miles south of Parallel SO.
Gen. Weyland ordered his war
planes to make no attacks along
the route after am. today q
pm. EDIT Friday.
Ridgway Pledge Carried Out.
The order carried out the pledge
of safe conduct made earlier in
the day by Gen. Matthew B. Ridg-
way, United Nations commander.
And it banned Allied bombers from
one of their favorite targets. The
highway is a main Red supply
artery to the Western front.
! 1t has been under almost con-
slant attack for months. Bombs
have cratered it badly. And it is
literally seeded with tetrahedrons
sharp, FOUR pointed cast-iron
devices for puncturing tires.
| Bombers and fighters also were
ordered to make no attacks within
a smile radius of KaeSong once
the Red delegation reaches it.
This carried out another pledge
Gen. Ridgway made when he COM
pleted final arrangements for a
meeting of three U. N. officers with
three Red emissaries in the no.
man's-land city.
Main Farley Opens Tuesday.
The two delegations meet SUM-
day to arrange for a cease-fire
session scheduled to start in Kae-
song Tuesday. The shooting will
continue until an agreement is
reached at the second meeting and
approved.
Air scouts spotted half dozen
people in Kaesong yesterday but
couldn't tell whether they were
Reds, Allies or civilians. A U. N.
patrol headed for the city for the
third successive day while en-
gineers swept mines from the
peace road" the U. N. delegation
will travel if it goes by jeep.
Forty-four U. N. planes blasted
a Red stronghold on the Western
front 20 miles northeast of Kae-
song. It was one of three mass
air strikes yesterday. The others
were by American jets on two Red
air fields. One is 40 miles north of
Pyongyang and the other 40 miles
southeast of the Red Korean cap
ital.
Heavy Fire Halts Patrol.
Without firing a shot-or being
shot at-an armored U. N. patrol
rumbled up the Western side Of
the Iron Triangle" to it's tip and
entered Pyonggang, 95 miles
southeast of Pyongyang. But an
other tank-led patrol was stopped
by heavy fire on the east side of
the triangle 6 miles from Pyong-
gang.
East of the triangle Reds hurled
three small counterattacks at
u. N. lines and engaged in peri
odic artillery exchanges.
| A single Communist plane
ushered in yesterdays fighting. It
dropped a few small bombs near
Allied positions on the western
front. about 80 miles from Kae-
song. U. N. planes were back in
the air on rocketing and bombing
strikes after flying only 47O mis-
sions Thursday.
mo significant action devel-