WHALING BY JAPAN

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26513, 30 August 1951, Page 7

WHALING BY JAPAN

®«.11 p-rn.) TOKYO, August 29. -Japan's biggest whaling ® e ®t since «• war will sail for the Antarctic ® mid-October, reports the Kyodo e *s a Eency. B e fleet will include 46 ships. Japanese aim to catch 750 whales and 1750 blue whales. S* Previous annual catch was abou. *** whales.

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General Ridgway, the United Nations da^m a thl e r in a d 7 ef broadcast tou Communist leaders concerning the alleged bombing of Kaesong by the United Nations, rejected Comincident 8 *° r a reinveatiBatio ’ l General Ridgway, who restated his readiness to reopen the cease-fire talks, said that another investigation of the Kaesong bombing could serve no pur» P°s® “other than to continue this unjustifiable delay jp the armistice negotiations. ’

The General said he would direct hio representatives to meet with the Communists “when you are prepared to terminate the suspension of armistice negotiations.” This is based on the belief that the United Nations Command is "fed up” with the series of baseless complaints filed by the Communists about alleged incidents within the Kaesong neutral zone.

The Allied statement charged that the Communists had sent one of their own aeroplanes through the motions of bombing Kaesong on August 22 and then blamed the Allies for the attack. The charge was made as General Ridgway studied the Communist Note offering to resume the talks under certain conditions Primarily the Communists want General Ridgway to say that an Allied aeroplane bombed the Kaesong netural area. He hag already said that no Allied aeroplane was even in the area, and officials of General Ridgway’s headquarters say that it is unthinkable that he will retract his charge that the entire incident was a frameup.

The information office statement said that from the beginning the Communists took advantage of the fact that Kaesong was within their lines “to place the United Nations' Command delegation in an undignified position which portrayed us to the Communist newspapers as representing a defeated command.” It accused the Communists of attempting to dictate the composition of the United Nations delegation, blocking its passage, halting the movement of its couriers, and bringing armed troops to the demilitarised conference site. The statement also charged the Communists with using military control of Kaesong as a "cloak of deceit’ in perpetrating a "sham of unprecedented proportions” in staging the Kaesong bombing incident.

"Transparent” Evidence It stated that the original evidence of the alleged bombing of Kaesong was “so transparent as to indicate immediately the fraudulent nature of the bombing charge, but this defect in the evidence could be cured- Should the investigations be reopened it is probable that much more convincing evidence of the bombing attack would be presented ” . „ _ The statement added that the Communist accusation that Allied aeroplanes bombed the Kaesong area on August 22 in an attempt to ‘ mu ru«' the Communist delegation,” had added the final and culminating instance to the series of invalid charges of alleged neutrality violations by the United N The n evidence of the bombing attack -investigated by Allied officers at njght—obviously could not stand ■ the liglit of day and the entire scene was staged by the Communists for the benefit of their photographers and newsmen.