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THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1948. **SMALL WAR RAGES ON KOREAN ISLAND** Communists on Cheju Attack Villages — Demand Police Surrender, No Election **By RICHARD J. H. JOHNSTON** Special to The New York Times. SEOUL, Korea, May 2—A small-scale war is reported to be raging on the Island of Cheju, sixty-five miles off the southern Korea coast. Korean police, supported by Korean constabulary, are battling swift-moving bands of Communists who are terrorizing the island's 276,000 inhabitants. The Communists are directing their assaults against registration their assaults against registration headquarters in the coastal towns and against both election officials and candidates. In the last twenty-four hours attackers have killed two men, two women and a 10-year-old girl in small villages on the outskirts of the island's capital city, Cheju. The authorities reported that all communications with the island's interior had been cut off. Korean Coast Guard headquarters at Pusan reported that the Communists had demanded the surrender of the police forces on the island. The Communists offered a five-point surrender demand, including confiscation of all police weapons, punishment of police and other security forces, and a guarantee that the United Nations-sponsored elections on May 10 would be called off. These surrender terms were reported to have been made to a Korean Coast Guard officer on the Island. The Communists are reported to have told the Coast Guard officer, "If these terms are acceptable by your elements they will cease operations on May 2." No reply was reported to have been made by the authorities to the demands. American observation planes yesterday reported that bands of constabulary had been sent into coastal towns to mop up the Communist forces. The police in the village of Ora, on the north coast, were under a three-hour attack beginning shortly after midnight Friday by a heavily-armed striking force of fifty men. The police drove out the attackers. Later the police found one woman hanged, one woman slashed to death with a sword and a 10-year-old girl beaten to death in the recaptured part of the village. The Communists are reported to have thrown up roadblocks on the roads leading from the interior of the island to the coast. A small detachment of United States Military Government troops on the island is not reported to have been involved in the fighting. However, captured Communist documents indicated that the Reds had ordered attacks on the Americans, if they came to the assistance of the Korean Security Battalion that is reported to be screening coastal towns in an effort to segregate the Communists.