Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-03-03 | Page 4 | Red Korea Girds to Fight Plague

I iRed I Korea Girds r J To fight r Plague PIe SAN FRANCISCO March 3 Wi PI WiThe The The Communist t radio said Monday londay Gen Kim II Sung chairman of the military council and Premier of North Korea had issued a n decree placing the country country coun try in a virtual state of emergency emergency emer emer- gency to combat bubonic plague The Red broadcast heard bythe by bythe bythe the Associated Press said the decree ordered a national extraordinary extra extra- extraordinary ordinary anti epidemic anti committee commit commit- tee the Ministry of Health the Army r Medical Bureau and other government agencies to mobil mobile mobilize ize all forces to wipe out germ germ- carrying insects The Reds persistently accused the United States of causing the thc plague by dropping germs behind behind be hind Red lines The United Nations Na Na- Nations command has denied the charge as simply a cover up for an epidemic of natural causes In another broadcast Red propagandist Wilfred Burchett Bur Bur- chett was quoted as saying United Nations prisoners of war will have to take their chance with the rest of Korean village dwellers in the horrors of a plague epidemic I