The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-27

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10 North Korea for signing By thel
Communist commanders. North
Korean Marshal Kim q Sung and
Chinese Gen. Peng Teh Ahuai.
Tuesday morning the Reds will
be handed the iupies signed By
CLARK, and the u. NJ Command
win receive the copies signed By
kim and Peng.
Clark viii sign the nine Com
munist-Signed copies in Seoul Tues
day. There win Be no ceremony.
After the signing is over each
side viii have three copies Of the
document in English, three in Chi
nese and three In Korean.
Present when Clark signed the
armistice was Brig. Gen. Ch0i
Duk Chin, South Korean truce
delegate, who began bOycotting the
armistice talks late in May ia pro-
test against a eease-fire that
leaves his country divided.
| ChOi said he attended as an OBJ
server on instructions from Presi-
dent Rhee.
Their work done, Allied truce
delegates prepared to leave the
Munsan base camp for other as
ssignments.
Attention swung Immediately 10
the Joint Military Armistice Com
mission, which win supervise the
truce and arbitrate any armisticeI
violations.
4 spokesman for the commission
said the Allied members would
meet with the Communist members
for the first time at PanmunjOmI
Tuesday.
The first big task ahead in the
armistice Is the exchange Of pris-
oners. These include 1913 Ameri-
cans and about 5000 South Ko-
reans and 1000 from other Allied
nations held by the Reds, and n, 4
200 North Korean and Red Chinese
held BY the U. N. Command.
The secret record of the nego-
ltiations, released after the signing,
showed that the Reds hold l2,736
prisoners Of war.
| The exchange Of prisoners who
want to return home Is expected
TO begin In week or less.
The U. N. said about 1900 North
Koreans and 1850 Chinese cap
lives have said they do not want
ito return home and win be turned
over to Q repatriation commission
composed Of Switzerland, Sweden,
Poland, CzechoslOvakia and India
midas troops win guard them,
probably in the buffer rome, while
Communist agents confer with
them.
The Communists said they would
return 800 prisoners 4 day, includ-
ling sick and wounded. The u. NJ
Command told the Reds II win turn
back prisoners at the rate Of 2.lOOI
lable-bOdied men daily, plus SEQ
sick and wounded.
Artillery doomed not far of lust
five minutes before the signing got
under way. and just afterward an
lOther barrage Numbered outside
the neutral circle.
Large delegations Of news cor
respondents were on hand on both
lsides.
Television and newsreel cameras
Ihninmed constantly through the
signing.
HarrisOn's three fellow American
delegates occupied three chairs At
1.-THE end of the Allied table to Har-
lrison's right. Nam MS four Com.
lmunist fellow delegates were seat
led q the end Of the Communist
table to Nam us left.
The other American delegates
were: Rear Adm. John Daniel, who
negotiated the exchange Of sick
land wounded prisoners last April
with the Communists: Mai. Gen.
George Finch; and Brig. Gen.
Ralph Osborne.
/ Harrison declined TO make any
statement to newsmen. Persons
lclose to the general, q lay Baptist
preacher who on occasion has con-
Quoted church services for his men,
described him as having misgiv.
.lings.
/ Gen. Clark's message to all per.
Isonnel Of the U. ". Command said
1.-THE truce means fhat tour duties
and responsibilities during the crit
iical period Of the armistice are
heightened and intensified rather
than diminished. |"
i He warned that the purpose Of
the armistice was TO permit the
opposing sides to attempt . sOlu-
ltion Of the conflict BY political
conferences"
! join with you and your
loved ones in the hope that the
armistice viii indeed prove to be
IN step toward peace.
but l must. At the same time,
make il plain that although the
thunder Of guns dies down and !
welcome silence descends upon he
battlefield, the conflict win not Be
over until the governments con-