EXPULSION IN KOREA

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27986, 5 June 1956, Page 11

EXPULSION IN KOREA

Inspection Teams

To Leave

(Rec. 10 p.m.) PANMUNJON, June 4. The United Nations Command today rejected a Communist compromise proposal to soften the order expelling the Neutral Nations’ Supervisory Commission from South Korea

Major-General Robert Gard, the senior United States member of the joint Military Armistice Commission, told the Communists that their proposal was not acceptable. The Communists had said they would agree to temporary withdrawal of the inspection teams if the Communist side could retain the right to send periodic inspection teams to the south in the future.

The senior Communist delegate. Major-General Chung Kook Rok earlier had demanded that the United Nations Command immediately cancel its order expelling the four-nation truce supervision teams by next Thursday. “Your demand is rejected.” General Gard told him. After rejection of his compromise offer. General Chung did not indicate what his next move would be. The exchange took place at the first meeting of the armistice group since the United Nations Command last Thursday ordered the truce teams to return to the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea. Swiss Honour Everest Anniversary LONDON, June 4. The Swiss mountaineering team which has just scaled Mount Everest and the previously unclimbed twin peak of Lhotse celebrated the third anniversary of the British conquest of Everest at the spot where Sir John Hunt's team drank a champagne toast to their victory exactly three years before, says Reuter’s Katmandu correspondent. His message, which reached the Nepalese Foreign Ministry, stated that the Swiss had delayed their return in order to be at the foot of Everest on May 29, the anniversary of the day on which Sir Edmund Hillary and the Sheroa, Tensing, reached the summit in 1953.