ANTI-TRUCE PARADES

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27064, 12 June 1953, Page 9

ANTI-TRUCE PARADES

PROTEST BY SOUTH KOREANS

(Rec. 11 p.m.) SEOUL, June 11. Fifty thousand chanting Korean demonstrators marched through the streets of Pusan today in the biggest anti-truce demonstrations yet staged in Pusan. All shops and businesses in the city and port closed down. The South Korean National Assembly today passed a resolution proposing an alliance with Nationalist China. The resolution did not specify the nature of, the pact. An Allied spokesman said in Panmunjon that the full truce delegations were not expected to meet again until an armistice agreement was ready, or unless difficulties arose in the staff officers’ conversations. In Seoul itself schoolchildren again demonstrated outside correspondents’ billets today. They listened to speeches by student leaders and shouted slogans. Later about 500 members of the Korean Artists’ League, with a brass band, joined the demonstration. A group of actors mimed short playlets depicting a drive to the north. The South . Korean President (Dr. Syngman Rhee) said in an official statement today that he “regrets” Mr Eisenhower’s view that “a truce in Korea will be advantageous to this country in many ways.”