Evening star., 1953-09-23
Sfockades Empfied
As u. n. Turns Over
Last Anii-Red P0Ws
BY The Assoeiossd Press

SEOOG, Sept. zO.-4H HO ". N.
command today turned over to
neutral Indian troops the last
of some 22,600 prisoners who
renounced communism, leaving
allied Stockades empty Of cap
tives for the first time in three
years.
With the final delivery came
a surprise announcement that
the allies will not send observers
to watch the arrival at the
neutral zone Thursday of 359
allied soldiers the Reds say
don't want to go home. They
include % Americans, l Briton
and 335 South Koreans, accord
ing to a Communist newsman.
Red observers watched the
two-week transfer to the de-
militarized zone of allied-held
POWs refusing repatriation. But
the u. N. command said I'VE do
not feel that the presence Of
UNC observers is necessary to
insure fair and successful ham
ding Of the turnover from the
Communists"
Confident Of Ability.
The allied announcement
added I'VE have confidence in
the ability of the CFI (Custodial
Force, India) to carry out its
mission"
simultaneously. India ordered
600 reinforcementS for the 5000
man force which will guard the
unrepatriated POWS. The ad-
ditional Indians will be air;fted
by the United States Air Force
via Japan and are expected this
week end.
Final delivery of prisoners to
the buffer zone brings the arrni-
stice to new phase. Starting
Friday or Saturday, allied and
Communist intervieWerS have 80
days to try to coax their former
soldiers to come home.
A new source of tension in the
6-Week-old truce was a state
ment by 1t. Gen. S. E. Anderson,
5th Air Force commander, that
the U. N. has had two recent
indications" that the Reds moved
jet warplaneS into Korea after
the July q signing in direct viQ-
lation of armiStice terms.
Allied radar has tracked ar
irving Red planes, Gen. Ander-
son said.
Red Pilot Confirms Charge.
A North Korean pilot vino fled
to South Korea Monday reported
Jet and propeller planes we're
moved into North Korea after
the truce.
The young North Korean flyer
who brought a nearly new, un-
damaged MIG Is to South Korea
Monday vanished from public
sight after giving a news confer
ence in Seoul Tuesday. He was
believed. to be still in the Seoul
area. under intense questioning
by American intelligence officers.
The North Korean will receive
q 100000 reward for bringing
the L. N command it's first
operational MIG.
The Communist jet was Grated
Tuesday and loaded aboard a
giant CHA cargo plane which
took it on the first leg of a
trip to the United States.
1t will be taken to the Air
Materiel Command at Dayton.
Ohio, where experts will an
alyze it.
The Allied Military Armistice
Commission said Tuesday that
four Americans repatriated in
the prisoner exchange were
listed, apparently by mistake.
among the 944 men for whom the
allies September demanded an
accounting by the Reds. The
announcement was made after
Red China's Peiping radio had
broadcast the names.
Not on PentagOn List.
The four were not on the list
of missing soldiers believed once
in captivity which the Defense
Department issued in Washing
ton. But an allied spokesman
here said the list released in
Washington and the list handed
the Communists could vary as
new information became avail
able.
The presence of Red observers
at Wednesdays final delivery of
allied-held POWs provoked the
same kind of anti-Red outbreaks
which f1ared at the start of the
massive transfer September 10.
Of some 22,600 anti-Red pris-
oners delivered to the neutral
zone, 22.575 are in Indian Gus
tody, the allies said, including
1869 Chinese and 1876 Ko-
reans.
The allied decision to withhold
observers will not affect ar
rangementS for newsmen to
watch the arrival of the unre-
patriated Americans. Briton and
South Koreans.
10 Reporters Each Side.
An Indian spokesman an
nounced earlier that 10 report
erS from each side will be
allowed to witness the transfer
from Communist hands to the
Indian troops.
No photographers or radio re-
cordings of the transfer will be
permitted, the Indian spokesman
said.
Indian guards today took over
the Red-built camp where the
Americans and other unrepatri-
ated Communist prisoners will
be transferred.
1t is a former Korean village
of freshly whitewaShed thatched
hutS. The barbed-wire COM
pound, enclosing about an acre,
also contains several new wood
Il