CHANGE IN KOREA

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29192, 30 April 1960, Page 13

CHANGE IN KOREA

‘Clean-Up’ Of Old Regime

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) SEOUL, April 29. The South Korean National Assembly today decided to accept next week Dr. Syngman Rhee’s resignation as President.

The South Korean Government today accepted the resignations of Mr Yang You Cran, Ambassador to the United States, and Mr Yiu Tai Ha, Ambassador to Japan. Their successors were not announced.

The Government also announced that all governors of the county’s nine provinces and most of the provincial police chiefs would be dismissed.

President Rhee’s provisional successor, Mr Huh Chung, went forward with plans to clean up Dr. Rhee’s twelve-year-old regime in advance of new elections. Four more members of the National Assembly, all members of Dr. Rhee’s ruling Liberal Party, resigned on Assembly insistence under charges of being involved in rigging the March elections. The Government has issued warrants for the arrest of the former Home Minister (Mr Choi In-kyu) and six others accused of being responsible for the polling frauds. - In Peking, the Communists staged a rally of 600.000 accusing the United States and Dr. Rhee of "sanguinary atrocities,” according to Peking radio. On Formosa, newspapers called on the United States to refrain from any further political intervention in South Korea. This referred to United States warnings to Dr. Rhee that the Korean demonstrators who finally toppled his Government had "justifiable grievances." In Tokyo, the Japanese Foreign Minister (Mr Alichiro Fujiyama) welcomed Mr Huh Chung as acting President of South Korea.