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Communist Terrorism
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Hits Korea on Eve of
Assembly Elections
By th« Associated Press
SEOUL, Korea, Sunday,, May 9.
—Communist terrorism, arson
and sabotage, aimed at wreck
ing tomorrow’s election, hit
South Korea this week end as
expected.
Timed with the outbreaks was a
Russian announcement of plans to
abandon the occupation of North]
Korea immediately.
The Soviet commander frankly
said his move was an attempt “to'
make American troops withdraw
from (SouthJ Korea simultane
ously.”
American military authorities
said, however, there were no indi
cations that the Russians were ac
tually packing. One called it “just
another propaganda shot” by the
Russians.
The Americans have rejected pre
vious Soviet proposals for simultane- j
ous withdrawal on the grounds that!
this would hand all Korea over to
the Russian - organized North
Korean army.
200 to Be Named for Assembly.
Nearly 8,000,000 South Korean
voters faced the apparent pros
pect of braving bullets and beatings
from Communist-led gangs to cast
their ballots in tomorrow’s election.
The election, under American su
pervision and United Nations ob
servation, is to name 200 members
of an Assembly to create a Korean
government.
The Russians, who occupy the
north half of the country, refused]
to have any part in the original plan
for nation-wide elections leading toj
Korea’s independence. The divided!
nation is a former possession of
Japan.
The way has been left open in the
south for eventual northern partic
ipation in the future government.
The Russian-controlled north, how
ever, has started forming its own
government, also designed to cover
all Korea.
More than two-thirds of the popu
lation of about 30,000,000 live in the ]
American zone.
400 Killed Since February.
Since early February, about 400
persons in South Korea have died
in sporadic, sharp attacks by roving
bands on police stations, election
headquarters .and the homes of
rightists.
The fighting has been vicious,
with rifles, swords, knives, spears,
clubs and even stones as weapons.
Many victims have been dismem
bered.
Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, Amer
ican occupation commander, has
charged repeatedly that this is the
work of “Communist stooges of
northern masters" seeking to
smash the election through “terror
istic violence, slaughter and sabo
tage.”
No Americans have been involved.
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American authorities agree that
the aim of the attacks is to cause
the United Nations observers to re
ject the election on grounds that it
was conducted in an atmosphere
of fear and violence.
The Americans also say they do
not believe the Communists are
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New Fury in Violence.
The anti-election violence burst
with new fury yesterday.
Military intelligence reported
three persons were killed up to
early Saturday night; at least 22
locomotives were damaged or wreck
ed by saboteurs: many telephone
and telegraph wires were cut; a
power station was damaged; and
there were many fires. Four news
paper offices were burned out, in
cluding three in Seoul, the capital.
Communist labor leaders called
widespread strikes in government
offices, banks, schools and indus
tries. But the week-end holiday
minimized them.
More violence was expected, but
Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, military
governor of South Korea, declared
In a press statement:
“I am determined that an anar
chic minority shall not prevent the
majority of the Korean people from
voting.
‘ Communists will not be allowed
to hamper election officials in their
work. The free atmosphere of the
election will be maintained.
“Violators of peace and order will
be dealt with severely.”
He urged Koreans to show the
world by a heavy vote that “Com
munist tactics of fear, terror and
murder have failed again.”
Bid Made As Predicted.
Timed as American officials had
predicted, Lt. Gen. G. P. Korotkov,
Soviet occupation commander, made
his “withdraw the troops” bid.
The North Korean radio broadcast
a letter from Gen. Korotkov to Kim
Doo Bong, a leader of the so-called
North Korean People’s Committee.
In it Gen. Korotkov gave the Rus
sian version of the long failure to
unify Korea and ended by saying,
“the government of the U. S. S. R.
has had the necessary arrangements
made for the immediate withdrawal
of its troops from Korea in order
to make American troops withdraw
from Korea simultaneously.”
Gen. Hodge refused comment on
the letter but dryly pointed out that
It did not say Soviet troops had
withdrawn or were withdrawing.
The North Korean radio also re
ipeated earlier threats to cut off
electric power supplied to South
Korea from the north.
TJie election issue is a contest
among anti-Communists for, the
right to decide the form of the
J projected government. -
i The latest count showed 909 can
| didates.
The polls will be open for 12
hours Monday. Then the sealed
boites will be taken to district
headquarters for counting. The
| trend is not expected to be discern
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i The U. N. commission will have
i rfine observer teams touring as many
i precincts as possible while its main
! committee compiles reports in Seoul,
i The commission plans to go to
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