FIGHTING TO CONTINUE

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26465, 5 July 1951, Page 7

FIGHTING TO CONTINUE

Period Before Korea Truce

(A ,Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 12.40 a.m.) TOKYO, July 4. A broadcast by the Peking radio agreed that the Communists should meet General Ridgway’s representatives on Sunday, July 8. United States officials said to-night that United Nations forces will continue fighting in Korea until an armistice is agreed upon, and all arrangements made to enforce a cease fire.

.. Th ® k intens ‘}y of the fighting will probably depend upon the weather and the degree of enemy activity. nf tha u the Communists had the capability of further building up their forces.

“For our own protection we must bomb convoys and troop concentrations, he said. “The Communists have been bringing supplies down from Manchuria for some time, and they might spin out the truce talks for military reasons.”

Officials said that the United States Administration had no information that the peace talks were a Communist trap but wanted to be on the safe side. Officials emphasised that the United Nations Commander, General Ridgway had been authorised to talk only on m u lht ? r X mat ters. “He will not talk about Formosa or the Chinese seat in the United Nations. “If the Communists go back to that, there will be no cease fire. That was rejected months ago and it would be rejected again. .. *^ n .spite of that cautious attitude, there is a general feeling in the capita] that the Communists mean business in the peace overtures, even although the Chinese Communist radio at Peking is making last-minute propaganda blasts against the Allies.”

SOUTH KOREA AND THE TRUCE COMMENT FROM U.N. REPRESENTATIVE „ , NEW YORK, July 3. Colonel Ben Limb, the South Korean representative at the United Nations, said to-day that the Soviet Union's aim in the current peace moves was to take over all of Korea. - Korea was the first and best opportunity to start a system of United Nations collective security through organising forces made up of contingents from the various United Nations members, he said. “Let that force work with the Korean army to keep the aggressors out of Korea,” said Colonel Limb. The Soviet peace plan was a wellconceived attempt by the Russians to get the Korean peninsula for their own use.

"They are working to get North Korea now. When they get North Korea what is to prevent them from making it a genuine watertight satellite like Czechoslovakia and other countries? Having done that, they will set out to infiltrate in South Korea by underground moves, and guerrillas, and in the end South Korea will be a ripe plum in their hands.”