Evening star., 1951-08-28
Raid on Kaesonc
Staged by Reds,
u. n. Charges
Gen. Ridewoy Studies
Latest Message That
Muy End Truce Hope
BY the Associated Press


Nations command charged today
that the Communists sent one Of
their own planes through the mo-
tions of bombing Kaesong last
Wednesday and then blamed the
Allies for the attack.
The charge was contained in a
bulletin released by the public
information office at Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway's headquarters
as the U. N. commander studied a
Communist note that could shat
ter hopes Of truce in Korea.
There is as yet no indication
as to the nature of the reply
Gen. Ridgway will make to the
latest Communist letter" the pub
lie information Office said.
The Reds offered to resume
truce talks-which they broke off
last Thursday-on certain condi-
tions. Primarily. they want Gen.
Ridgway to say a U. N. plane
bombed the Kaesong neutral area
Wednesday.
He has already said no U. N.
plane was even in the area. He
told the Communists they manu-
factured the incident.
Ridgway Position Restated.
Less than "a hours after the
Reds rejected this, Gen. Ridgway's
public information Office restated
the same position in detail.
1t said no U. N. planes were in
the area at the time of the attack
but that an unidentified plane was.
1t added:
"It is beyond doubt that this
was a Communist aircraft
"All evidence established the
clear conclusion that on the night
of August % the Communists per-
petrated deliberate fraud"
The release said there were no
bomb craters, no bomb fragments,
mo evidence on the ground of a
United Nations command air at
tack"
There is every indication"
the release said. that Red truce
personnel at Kaesong were ac-
cessories to a deliberate fraud.
Using their military control of
the conference site as a cloak
OF deceit. Communist personnel
perpetrated sham of unpre-
cedented proportions.
'Elaborately Staged
Creating an elaborately staged
and quite obviously premeditated
scene, they sought to fix upon the
United Nations command a false
charge of air attacks on the con-
ference site"
The Reds asked Gen. Ridgway
to make a new investigation of
their evidence of the asserted
bombing. To this. the public in
formation Office commented the
Reds have had time to prepare
more convincing evidence of a
bombing.
"The original evidence was so
transparent as to Immediately in
dicate the fraudulent nature of
the bombing charge" the release
said, "but this defect in the evi-
dence could be cured.
Should the investigation be
reopened it is probable that much
more convincing evidence of a
bombing attack would be present.
ed"
RetractiOn Unthinkable.
Officials at general headquarters
said it was virtually unthinkable
that Gen. Ridgway would retract
his charge that the entire incident
was a frame-up.
Red China's Peiping radio said
one of the two American liaison
officers who investigated the orig
inal evidence "either lied or was
incompetent" in reporting there
had been no bombing.
The broadcast quoted Alan Win
nington, a London Daily Worker
correspondent who has been COW
ering the Kaesong conferences.
Urging a second investigation to
include the reported new evidence,
the broadcast said:
"The time is short because the
may try to destroy the
evidence"
The release from Gen. Ridg-
ways headquarters reviewed the
whole array of charges and coun-
tercharges Of neutrality violations.
It said:
From the beginning of the con-
(See TRUCE, Page A-3.)