MOBS RIOT IN KOREA
Recd. 7 p.m. Seoul, Oct. 5. According to the latest figures issued by the United States Army headquarters 53 Korean police were killed. 20 seriously wounded and 100 arc reported missing as the result ot clashes with rioting mobs at Taikyu. The civilian casualties have not yet been ascertained. The police reported that 100 prisoners were liberated from or escaped from gaol during the rioting. All the Kyong Sang Pukto province, of which Taikyu is the capital, is now under martial law. The occupation commander, Lieut.General Hodge, said the mob leaders were “vicious agitators from the outside.”
An earlier message said that fighting broke out after a crowd demonstrating against police representatives of the American occupation authorities, attacked a police station and obtained guns. The fighting Is reported to have ended after American troops, who were not involved in the clash, entered the city.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 October 1946, Page 5
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