Evening star., 1951-08-30
Reds Radio CHARGES
u. 5. Planes Violate
Kaesong Area Daily
BY The Assoeiatsd Press

Iudy CudL american planes VlOlaUe
the Kaesong neutrality area in
Korea nearly every day.
The charge was injected into a
series Of broadcasts accusing Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway Of lying
SANDER and distortion.
The latest asserted violation I. as
early yesterday. The badly gar
bled broadcast heard in Tokyo said
an American bomber dropped a
flare over the site of the now-sus-
pended Korean war truce talks.
The radio said it happened at
almost the same time Gen. Ridg-
way fatty refused to reopen an in
vestigation of Red charges that
an Allied plane bombed Kaesong
August %.
Peiping called it an attempt ''to
cover up the flagrant lies that Re
handed the world"
u. N. Offer Not Mentioned.
The broadcast made no men
ton Of the U. N. commander
offer to resume truce negotiations
any time the Communists are will
ing to do so. He made the offer
in the same note that refused to
reopen investigation of the as
serted bombing.
Top Red commanders, to whom
the message was addressed, had
not replied. There was no indica.
tion when they would.
In its sweeping accusation, the
Peiping radio said as many as 4a
American planes had flown over
the KaeSong neutral zone In q
single day. The neutral area ex-
tends for a smile radius around
KaeSong.
American aircraft" the broad
cast asserted, have necessarily
illegally and constantly flown into
the sky over the neutral zone"
/ The radio devoted most Of its
attention to attacking Gen. Ridg-
way
/ Aim Seen to Delay Decision.
The Communist attitude tended
to support theory the Reds want
to delay a decision on Korea until
after the japanese peace treaty
conference in San Francisco.
Peiping'S broadcaSts dampened q
cautious optimism expressed in q
press release from Gen. Ridgway's
headquarters.
! The release suggested the Red
proposal to reinvestigate the Kae-
song bombing charge may contain
some hope for resumption" of truce
talks. Communists broke off ne
gotiations August %, a few hours
after they said a U. N. plane
bombed Kaesong.
The Red broadcast said Gen
Ridgway's latest note on the Incl
dent 'again distorted facts" ano
was full of contradictions be-
cause he is lying"
Statment ASSailed.
1t particularly assailed his state
ment that a Red liaison officer re-
fused a request for a daylight in
.vestigation.
"On the one hand he ISLANDERS
our side as refusing to conduct a
reinvestigation." the radio said,
"and on the other stubbornly re-
fuses our request for a reinvestiga-
ton"
The broadcast then asked:
Why is Ridgway so afraid of
investigation, like a criminal
afraid of his final trial? Ridg-
ways iaison officer has said that
investigation in the dark of night
could not be (held). Why then
does Ridgway insist on relying on
unreliable investigation, and yet
refuse to make further reliable
investigation?"
No Evidence of Bombing.
Gen. Ridgway's headquarters
has observed that the lapse of
time between the original investi-
cation. around midnight August
%. and the Red offer Tuesday
to make a new investigation al
lowed the Communists plenty of
time to manufacture new evil
dence.
The U N. command said origi-
nal evidence did not indicate that
Kaesong was bombed.
The Communist broadcast went
into a lengthy denial of Gen.
RidgWayS statement that the
Communists refused to permit a
daylight investigation of their
evidence.
1t documented this With a long
statement attributed to Col.
Chang Chun-shan, Communist
liaison officer who went to the
scene with the U. N command
representatives. Col. A. j. Kinney
and Col. j. c. Murray.