한국경찰, 소요가 난무한 도시를 공격

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1948. KOREA POLICE RAID STRIFE-TORN CITY 60 Suspected Agitators Taken in Cheju After Series of Fatal Disturbances SEOUL, Korea, April 24 (UP)—Korean constabulary troops armed with American Garand rifles surrounded the strife-torn city of Cheju on Cheju Island early today while Korean police raided the homes of suspected agitators and arrested sixty. It was the first Government counter-action against alleged Leftist-inspired disturbances that have resulted in forty-six deaths on the Island of Cheju since April 2. The constabulary men held the city paralyzed for five and one-half hours while police carried out the arrests without violence. Thirty of the sixty arrested were released later. Sporadic sniper fire sounded throughout the hours of darkness, but the area was quiet by daylight. Cheju is the largest city on the Island of Cheju, fifty miles south of Korea and in the American occupation zone. Americans are reported to be advising the police there, as they do elsewhere in Southern Korea, but otherwise are not involved in the Cheju troubles. The United States Army announced that sabotaged telephone lines between Cheju and other parts of the island were now restored, despite sniper fire on repairmen. The only other violence reported in Southern Korea was the assassination of Kim Yun Ku, candidate for the National Assembly in elections scheduled for May 10. Unknown persons shot him to death in his home, 100 miles south of Seoul. The constabulary-police blow against alleged Leftists on Cheju may mark a stiffening attitude toward the disturbances which Communists and sympathizers hope will disrupt or discredit the elections. Korean election officials on Cheju have reported that their workers are quitting because so many attacks have been made against them and election booths. They have asked for American personnel to distribute the ballot boxes, using American transportation. There is every indication that American personnel will be used to the utmost to maintain order on election day, in accordance with the United Nations mandate that balloting must be conducted in a free atmosphere. Motor trips through the countryside disclose guards posted at many bridges against sabotage. The Garand rifles which some of the constabulary troops are carrying replaced the small bore bolt-action Japanese rifles, tremendously increasing the fire power of the constabulary, which is the closest thing to an army possessed by Southern Korea.