Evening star., 1951-09-11


replied. but instead early today
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Allied Counterottock Drives Two Bot
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broadcast an official message re-
jecting Gen. Matthew B. Ridg-
ways suggestion that Korean
truce talks be moved to some other
site.
The Communist message, broad
cast by the Peiping radio in the
names of North Korea Gen. Kim
II Sung and Chinse Red Gen.
Peng Teh-huai, said Gen. Ridg-
ways proposal to move was com
pletely unsatisfactory and unac-
ceptable."
Accusations Repeated.
The message told Gen. Ridgway
"theSe efforts of yours are futile"
and then repeated all the old Red
accusations that the Allies were
Constructing" the now-suSpended
armiStice talks and had repeatedly
violated KaeSongs neutrality.
The latest Red complaint was
that an Allied plane machine
gunned Kaesong before dawn
Monday.
Previous Red accusations have
been dismissed as falsehoods and
frameups.
The Monday strafing. however,
was found to be true.
Joy to Send Message.
A message being sent to the
Reds today through Vice Admiral
C. Turner Joy, chief Allied truce
negotiator, says:
THE United Nations command
regrets this violation of the agreed
neutrality which resulted from the
pilots error in navigation. Appro-
PIRATE disciplinary action is being
initiated"
The Allied reply notes that no
casualties were inflicted and only
slight damage was caused.
This is the first time the U. NJ
command has admitted any basis
to Red charges of neutrality zone
violation. The straf1ng charge
was the 11th by the Reds. The
Allies have denied or ignored all
previous charges.
Plane Noted by Radar.
The U. N. command statement
said a plane detected by Allied
radar in the Kaesong area at the
time of the Red-reported strafing
turned out to be a United States
bomber.
The statement continued:
Continuing radar plot including
q directed Identification turn and
subsequent transmission indicates
plane was one from Sd Bomb
Group. The pilot reports having
strafed lights at 1886 am. in what
he believed to be a different area,
but which in view of the radar
plot must have been Kaesong.
Faulty navigation on pilots
part led to error"
Reds Warn Allies.
Earlier the Communists warned
the Allies to accept Red terms for
resuming stalled Korean truce
talks in Kaesong or "bear the full
responsibility for all the conse-
quences."
They didn't say what "the con-
sequences" would be. But it could
only mean resumption of full
fighting in Korea.
The Reds want the Allies to
admit that United Nations planes
and troops have violated Kae-
songs neutrality zone. This the
U N. command has refused to-
do until today.
The Reds broke off armistice
negotiations August %, charging
that an Allied plane bombed the
conference site the night before
The Reds warning yesterday
came in a 3,000-word statement
by their truce delegation at Kae-
song. It was broadcast over Red
China'S Peiping radio.
DOdgeS Making Reply.
1t lodged answering the latest
proposal of Gen. Ridgway that
truce talks be resumed in some
incident-proof location. But it
limited the suggestion was un-
acceptable.
The Red statement was broad
cast for four and one-half hours.
It said Gen. Ridgway merely was
trying to play new trick"
The broadcast said the United
Nations SHOULD deal in respons-
ible manner with the series of
provocative incidents created by
them instead of raising the de-
mand for changing the conference
site with the aim of diverting at
tention from the settlement" of
the Red neutrality violation
charges.
IF they are not sincere in
wanting the resumption of the
negotiations, then their demand
for transferring the conference
site only serves to prove that they
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