DISTURBANCES IN KOREA

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27733, 10 August 1955, Page 8

DISTURBANCES IN KOREA

Move Against Truce Observers (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) SEOUL, August 8. South Korea’s mass demonstrations against the presence of neutral truce observers entered their second day today as thousands of wounded veterans at the five ports of entry in South Korea “camped” near the inspection team billets. An Bth Army spokesman said today that no violence was reported during last night from any of the five ports of entry, and the situation remained static. This spokesman confimed that some Korean civilians were injured yesterday at Pusan, when a mob attempted to crash. down the barbed-wire fence guarding the neutral inspection team billet in Pusan. An Bth Army spokesman sard all the injuries were “self-inflicted,” and this by implication was a denial of the overnight Korean police reports that the Koreans were injured by bayonet wounds when they clashed with American guards. The spokesman said the 1000-yard causeway leading to Wolmi Island, the billeting place of the Inchon inspection team, was still blocked by Korean demonstrators. “We are sending supplies to the neutral team by boat,” the spokesman said. Demonstrations at Inchon, Pusan, Taegu, Kunsan, and Kangnung appeared likely to continue until a formal reply is received, from either the commission itself or the United Nations Command to the South Korean Government’s ultimatum, which demanded the withdrawal of all five teams from South Korea by midnight on August 13.