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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

The Korean Armistice

THE

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MONDAY, JULY 27, 1953.

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KOREAN ARMISTICE SIGNED

Ceremony Completed

In Seven Minutes

FIGHTING TO COME TO AN END.

AT 10 O'CLOCK TONIGHT

PANMUNJOM, JULY 27.

signing of an armistico at Panmunjom is the most momentous international ovent of the past three years, for it significa not only the Immediate cesantion of wasteful and fruitless hostilities, but may well presage a new era in the Far East. Spontaneous ex- pressions of rejoicing over the conclusion of a Korean truce are hardly to be expected-negotiations have dragged on for so long that their final crystallisation into a mutually acceptable document of conditions leaves the world cautiously hopeful rather than Jubilant. Moreover, in the background, there lurks a fear that the South Korean Government, who will have nothing to do with an armis- tice, may still engage in some Hort of action that will be regarded by the Communists ns à violation of its terma, and render it null and vold. The public announcement by South Korean leaders that they will abide by the Armistico conditions for 180 days offers a mensure of reassurance, yet it is not easy to forget the hostility which President Syngman Rheo has dis- played to the recent negotiations at Panmunjom, nor his wilfully com- promising action releasing thousands of anti-Live Communist North Korean prisonera. That the United

A communique Communist Chinese and North Nations Command will sign the armistice in all good

Korean negotiators also faith need not be doubted

poured agreement had been roached anywhere, and the hope, even if not the conviction,

Bút the Communist remains that the Cem

nouncement sald United States the munists have

namirances would remain to 'be samo

cortiod

truce test put. Tho honest intentions of carry-

Lt. Gen. Harrison arrived at

First news that the two would be whether all United ing out its provisions. Parumunjom at 0,30 a.m. He Because of the procrastina- left his hellcopter and walked ing, troops of both sides will year-pid armistice negotiation Nations forces, including South began Koreans, would stop fighting tions and tendentiouancas past a line of UN Command withdraw two kilometres (one to end the war, which

North And South within 12 hours and withdraw of the Communists during guards representing all units and a quarter miles) all along between

Korea on Juno 25, 1950,

demarcation lino and from. the the 150-mile front line. and services fighting in Korea. the two years of truce

A demilllarised

be spread to the United Nations within 72 hours-United Prose was_acéem- Gen. Harrison negotiating, there 18 a

panked by Rear-Adm, John D. tween the two armies will be and Communist Chint, had been and Reuter. antural inclination to regard their motives with r suspicion. Nevertheless, it would now seem that they seriously desire to end the hostilities in Korea.

the

THE KOREAN ARMISTICE was signeD AT 10.01 ¡M. TODAY, BRING- ING AN END TO THREE YEARS OF STALEMATED WAR BUT NO GUARANTEE OF PEACE TO KOREA OR THE WORLD.

THE GUNS WILL BE SILENCED AT 10.01 O'CLOCK_TONIGHT.

Allied commanders warned their men to remain alert and remember that today's historic events brought only a "suspension of hostilities."

The UN chief delegate, Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, walked into the ceremony hall at exactly 10 a.m., sat down and immediately signed the first copy of the bulky document.

The signing of the Korean armistice was completed at 10.07 a.m.

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in

North Korean General Nam Il finished signing his copies at 10.06 a.m., and Gen. Harrison signed his final paper at 10.07 a.m.

The UN Commander-in-Chief, General Mark Clark, was waiting in his advance head- quarters at Munsan to sign in a separate ceremony later today. Other copies will be dispatched to the Communist commanders, Marshal Kim Il-sung and Chinese Gen. Peng Teh-huai, whose refusal to attend a Panmunjom ceremony covered by the Allied press resulted in a decision to have only the chief armistice delegates sign jointly.

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concluded. Military, successfully The armistice brcomes effec-, Daniel, a member of the delega-, supervised

of both given by General Mark Clark 12 hours after the Panmun-tion. The chlor UN delegate Armistice Commission jam ceremony.

teams of neutral | yesterday, saluted the snappy honour guard sides, with rosplendent in: thetr multi-observers from Poland, Czecho- coloured uniforms representing alovakia, Sweden and Switzer the armed might of the United land.. Nations,

In addition, a repatriation commission, consisting of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, witi Switzerland and India, superviso the exchange of prisonera.

Seventy-two hours later, both opposing armies must withdraw (wo kilometers each from the consedre line to form a buffer one across the peninsula.

prisoners of may be on the way home by lete this week

The first

war

He went into the UN Command staff tent before the signing tour came

The Communist delegation had arrived in jeeps five minutes earlier.

Within 72 hours of the sign-

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Birthday line-up of

Maria Christinia, Maria

How British Woman Was Slain By Gunmen

Puigcerda, Spain,

July 27,

Dr Bernard Joseph Peck, British holidaymaker, ́yes- terday, told how his wife Dora was shot dead beside: him in his car by two allent gunmen who held them up on Saturday in the desolate mountain: country. of the. Franco Spanish frontier.

French and Spanish police have sent reinforcements .to the armed polico who are using dogs to comb the rugged shrub covered area round the little town of Ripoll for the atsallants.

The 31-year-old doctor whose Plymouth was

io in

given a blood transfusion imm- mediately

he arrived at the and was reported to- to be improving äfter being day wounded by five shots from a 0-mm submachinegun.

In his statement of the hold- and murder of this 31-year- old mother of his two daughters, ho told the police “We drove Into Spain from France early OF Saturday on our way to Barco- Iona,"

* TOOK CAMERA, PADA "We were driving slowly along the mountain road when two men spring out of the woods Both of them were

Fernania, Maria Esther, REVOLT INI stopped

Carlos and Franco, the famous Diligente quing of Argentine, who have just celebrated their tenth birthday in Rio de Janeiro-London Express.

Four Big

TEXT OF THE TRUCE AGREEMENT Issues To

Washington, July 26, Be Raised

The United States State Department tonight released the text of the long awaited Korean- armistice agreement to bring about a "complete cessation of hostilities” until there i) a final peace. settlement. The State Department said the text was unofficial and there might be minor last- minute changes in the wording at Panmunjom.

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the with

on both

conditions applying to a cease-fire are quite normal and follow traditional lines, some of the other termis of the

armistice are somewhat un- usual and they create delicate problems of procedure. The most exceptional of the provisions is that which per mits Communist nominees to interrogato prisoners of war who indicated they do not wish to be repatriated. These "explainers" are given the right to try and persuado auch prisoners that they have nothing to fear by being sent back to Com-

to accept 'and munist areas. This is, governed by the conditions (0) A Neutral Nations unquestionably,

risky and 0

of the temps

armistice Supervisory Commission, with concession: the danger of | agreement....

Sweden, representatives from moral intimidation cannot The preamble specified that Switzerland, Poland and Czecho- be ruled out, nor the the armerice conditions and slovacia to supervise and inspect possibility that should these terms

to be truce arrangements, and report "explainers" fail to "purely military in character violations to the Joint Military

to pertain solely to the Arlatico Commission. convince what they consider and

Tho a sumcient number of dis- belligerents in Korea",

opposing The agreement provided for: affected prisoners to agree

agreed to recommend that their cease fire 12 hours Governments (1) A to repatriation, the Com- after the signing of the truce. higher level poffical conference munists will refuse to

(2) A demarcation lino run- whhin 90 days of the signing of honour the armistice ugree- ning through the centre of a the drute. ment. The Communists have 2 milo deep demilitarised They said: 90 days in which to persuade "buffer" prisoners to accept repatria- opposing forces.

tion and it can be expected they will insist upon uning the whole of this period for the curidus Lask they have given themselves. It will

CUBA

"I stopped the ear and stepped out. By wife stayed in her Front

scat,

The two then remained ab solutely silent. They took the Camera hanging from my without

car and

Havana, July 26. shoulder and stat

of speaking waved me back into President Batista:

the and signalled me to Cuba acknowledged today drive off. that there had been a re- volt against his Govern ment in the city of San- Lingo de Cuba, at the eastern end of the island.

"I started up the engine and had driven only a few yards when they opened fire with the machinegun Dera screamed and covered in blood fell against the windscreen,"

Mrs Peck died almost instantly He referred to it as "an with nine bullet holes in her encet to stage an Impossible re-body. turn to power" by the followers

· Da Pecke was wounded twice in

of deposed President Carlos the shoulder and in the wrist, Prio

Boccama. He did not arm and kidneys-Router. say whether the revolt had suc- ceeded.

(Our Own Correspondent)

London, July 27.

Havann itself was quiet. The Daily Express Poli- Earlier, unconfirmed reporía tical Correspondent reports | said the revolt had begun The agreement applied to all today that Britain is to de. among army troops garrisoned Army, Naval and Air Forces mand a much bigger say in in Santiago de Cuba.

These reports raid of the Communist and United the Korean truce conference

several Nations Command.

than she had in the truce people had been killed.

No confirmation of the re- negotiations.

ports could be obtained from official sources here.-Reuter.

Already urgent signals have boon sent to the Empire govern- ments to pave the way for a joint Empire approach to vital Lasites now being raised..

of a general Fir

The Preamble to the 12,000- (3) The exchange of all, question, the military command- word agreement said

the prisoners of war willing to beers of both sides hereby recor- United Nations and Communist repatriated and no interference mood to the Governments of the mititury commands,

the return of displaced countries concerned on both sides interests of stopping the Korean civilians to their homes in that, within three months after

the armistice agreement is signed A separate agreement, signed conflict, with its great toll of North or South Korea. suffering and bloodshed

and becomes effective, a political on June 8 dealing with the fate aides, and with the objective (4) The safe despatch to de- conferes be held by representa-patriated, was released by the conference of a higher level of of prisoners unwilling to be re- of establishing an armistice, milliarised zones of prisoners which will insure a complete unwilling to be repatriated. Here tives appolated respectively to State Department with the text cessation of hostilities and of they would be placed in the questions of the withdrawal of

settle through negotiations the of the truce agreement. all acts of armed force in Korea custody of Indian troops.

all foreign forces from Kores, It set up a Neutral Nations For with the Korean armistice until a a final peaceful settlement is achieved, do individually,

(5) A joint Military Armis- the peaceful solement of the Repatriation Commission com comes

posed of Sweden, Switzerland, ↑ EAST BRODesolving these collectively and mutually, agree tice Commission to enforce the Korean question, etc.

Poland, Czechoslovakia and major

of Chinese Com-. be bound and truce.

The truce agreement banned India, to whom the unwilling

for the rebels in the Introduction of new milltary prisoners would be turned over. munist

Indo-China, and to a lesser ex- reinforcements and equipment

Both sides would have 80 tent in Maloya Korea by either side during the

2. Guarantees that the truce period of the truce. It did not days to persuade the prisoners

But it will not be followed by further prohibit the rotation of unlis to accept repatriation. already there, but placed a this persuasion falled, the ques Communist aggression elsewhere monthly limit of 35,000 men on tion of the disposition of these in Southeast Asia.

prisoners would be submitted 3. Resumptions of trade with D the political conference.If China.

4. Recognition of the Chinese It called for full protection the political conference reached and "all possible assistance and no decision within 30 days, they Communist Government and Its status admission to the United Nations. co-operation" to the Military would be given civilian

who These four points will first Armistice Commission, Its joint and released. Prisoners. observer teams, the Neutral chose to go to neutral nations come up for discussion at the Nations Supervisory Commission would be assisted to do so by meeting of the United Nations lis Neutral Nations in the Repatriation Commission and General Assembly which Mr the Red Cross Society of India. Lester Pearson will call possibly spection teams.

In mid-August to consider the Korean armistice.

British, American and other UN governments are to make it clear to the Rods that any nggression in Korea further will again involve them.

Were intended

cornmanders

should hold

between...the "In order to ensure the peace- ful cettlement of the Korean

CONDITIONS FOR

Tho

such rotation

and

THE CEASE-FIRE

Reverses His Testimony

General Armistloe and to the land area of Korea, all of the provisions hereof by all the commanders of the opposing

1 aides shall: be a crucial testing time for Agreement on the eteselite under the military bontrol of elements of their commands.

They shall actively co-operate "Conse the Introduction into the Reds whose attitudo said:

the opposing side, and shall not The commanders of the op- engage in blockade of any kind with one another and with the Korea of reinforcing milltary Important will offer an

and of, Korca,

Military Armistice Commission personnel provided, however, pointer to the prospects of posing sides hall order

enforce a complete cessation of

"This cemistice agreement and the Neutral Nations Super that the rotation of units and holding a political canell hostilities in Korea by all shall apply to all opposing air visory Commission in requiring personnel, the arrival in Korea ference which is provided armed forces under their core forces, which air forces shall observance of both the letter and of

duty basis,

tho return to for under the terms of the | trol, ̈ including all unita” and respect the air space over the the spirit of all of the provisions personnel, 04", a temporary. armistice. Thus an armis personnel of the ground, naval demilitarised zone and over the of this armintice agreement. tice begins, but accentuated and air forces, effective twelve area of Korea under the military

Aho conta of the operations periods of love or temporary wilnzems in” the Monroy case, "last"| after this armistice control of the opposing side, and by, several largo marks of hours

armistice agreement both.

1

short Koren of personnel after-

Maníta, July-27. Antonio Suarez, the principal ball of the Military

Armistice duty outside Koren

within the scope, pro- night made an about turn, in his below....Ilotation shall testimony and mentioned the Nations Supervisory Commis

basis-provided, however, that no offered him 2,000 pesos to, point military service shall be admitted gu

interrogation. Its aim is toyent is signedić, over the water (continous to Camalzaion and of the Neutraodon ʼn man for man name of a Senator who allegedly

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order to Sasure the into Koren by either sido in any gloying, Manuel Mont03,

lead to a permanent peace shall apply to nil. opposing settlement in Korea, and' in ground forces under the military. *Responsiblity for compliance sion and of their teams shall be due course to a wider agree- control of either side, which with the enforcement of the shared equally by the two of more than 55,000 persons in the to his son, Everestino, as, the ment on other political ground forces shall respect the terms and provisions of this posing sides.

June problems. In the Far East, demilitarised zone and the area sanation agroerment is that of 7

Koron unter the military, the signatories hereto and their

of stability.

milltary calendar month under the Inblasting bis previous testi- But none of this ent be of

to facilitate rotation policy**** Fuccessors in command. The

A monty, the kelder -- Fünets sald taken for granted. The control of the opposing side.

armistice roomment commantlers of the opposing sides prmistice.so..se

Peaceful

"Cease the introduction, into that he lied because he was Immediate hope is that shall apply to all opposing shall establish within their the attainment of a nothing will be done to naval forces, which naval forces respective commands all measures soltlement through the heiding Korea of reinforcing combat forced to sign a prepared inte

much)|ment/ by a City Hall official - to by both sides of a political violate the essential con- shall respect this waters con- and procedures” necessary ditions of the armistice, liguous to the demilitarised zone mrura completa compliance with conference of a higher level,

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Mrs Braddock's Forecast

London, July 20. Mrs Bessio Braddock, Labour Member of Parliament, said today she did not belleye Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill would return to the House of Commona -France- Presse.

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