“ARMISTICE TRAIN”
(Rec. 8 p.m.) TOKYO, July 3. Korean carpenters and American engineers were given 12 hours to-day to prepare the 17-carriage “Armistice Train” which is how drawn up in Seoul station.
They worked fast to fit mosquito screens to the windows and to furnish sleeping quarters for United - Nations and Communist delegates to the truce talks scheduled for July 10. The train, which wag once Used by the late General Walton Walker, Commander of the Eighth Army, as his field headquarters, arrived in Seoul early to-day.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26465, 5 July 1951, Page 7
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