KOREA ATROCITIES More American soldiers found tied and killed
From an American base in South Korea,
July 11.
Front line reports indicate that 18 American soldiers have been bound and
killed by their Communist North Korean captors. Allowances have been made for possible duplication in battle front cases
reported.
•
In each instance the type of wound, nature of bindings and other distin- guishing marks were sifted by reporfors making the count to avoid duplication.
MILITARY AID BILL APPROVED
Washington, July 11. The House Foreign Affairs Committee today approved US$1,222,500,000 programme of military ald to non-Communist countries and called for crea- tion of a Far Eastern defence pact similar to the Atlantic trenty.
Chairman Johat Kee of West Virginia said the House Foreign Alfairs Committee voted animously for the Bid hill and for a Far East defence pact.
un-
Mr. Kre told reports there is chance the House will be ablu
to vote on the bill and send' it to President Harry Truman for signature by this coming week- end.
not
The Committee recommenda- tion for a Pucille pret was Included in the arms aid bit.
It will go before the House only as an expression of policy.
can
WEL
This is not something we legislate."
3:30. Mr. Keg must be an printios forret Eastern countries of
their own accord."
Mr. Kee recalled that such an expression already had come froin Philippine leaders.
The arins al bill authorized US$16,000,000 strengthen de- Philippines and South Korea. Another US$75,- 000,000 was earmarked for
the general area of China.
fence
of the
Lieutenant D.C. Gates, was the first to report the atrocity killings of bound prisoners. He said the G.I had been killed after having surrender cd. Their hands were bound behind them, he said. The bodles were in the area where a see-saw battle had raged.
Then cane Associated Press correspondent William R. Moore, who found two more in the front line area. Markings on
the bindings of these two bodies were different from those described by Lieutenant Gates.
The two Moore found had been shot in the forehead. The sover Gates reported had been hit Ini the face by bullets.
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Captain
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Army Doctor, Donald Duerk, reported three bound bodles station. At least one of victing had been shot behind the ear. The bodies had been found in an arca recaptured by the Americans,
Private Donald Odte said that several days ago he
foul SDW Americans surrender to the Com- munists. One was shot imme- He did not know what diately. happened to the others,
The defenders had only one machine-gun and a bazookca,
For ve hours the Americans held on, The sights were shot off the sergeant's rifle,
He shot a Communist at short-range through the belly with his loat bullet.
Then 30 men mudo & run for for it down-hill across a shallow stream with North Koreans hot on their heels, fring madly.
Only the sergeant was hit.
He fell in the sireum but two of his men dragged him under cover.
Last night the sergeant had his Arst meal for 48 hours.
On the next stretcher a soldier was twisting in agony.
"He was not hit. tle's got whispered the combat shock”, medical orderly.
Lost men back
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1950.
UN awaiting official word on atrocities
Lake Bucca, July 11. The United Nations today awaited official reports on the murder of American prison. ors by North Korean forosa before taking action on stro». elties.
It was bellaved the United Nations eventually would not
up a tribunal to try the por- patrators a war criminal under the principles of the Nuremberg triala,
A United Nations spokes. man said no official reports on atrocities had boon To- calved from the United Na tions Commission In Korta or from ita military ab. servers. The Secretary Gen• ̧· eral, Trygve Lit, planned no' action until auch reports ar- rived United Press,
BEETLE STORIES
Hoover repeats demand for new United Nations
Emporia, Kansas, July 11.
Former President Herbert Hoover said tonight that the United Nations must be rebuilt to isolate
· Russia until Communism_dostroyed itself_by_ its own ovil,
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In a speech prepared for delivery at the dedication of the William Allen White memorial here, Mr. Hoover said: "Communism is a force of ́ evil,
"It contains within itself germs which will in time destroy it...Our purpose must be to isolate this malignant force."
Mr. Hoover sald Russia and her satellites must be thrown out of the United Nations because they had turned that body into an. "Instrument to
protect Red Imperialism...an instrument to provoke fear and hate among and within the nations of the earth". Ho termed the Korean war n Soviet test of the limits of up- peasement and of solidarity, of non-Communist members of the United Nalons. Moscow, July 11.
possibility Regarding the
of Soviet
newspapers today another war, Mr. Hoover sald carried two more accusations there was some comfort in the that the U.S. has been dropping fact that general war must have beetles again over Eastern an altainable end that Europe.
strategically possible.
REPEATED
from
the
Instances reported were Czechoslovakia and from German Democratic Republic" and appeared 10 "Pravda", "Izvestia" and "Trud"
A note by the Czechoslovak Government to the United States published in Moscow declared
violated
Kromlin victory impossiblo
can be
Alleged broadcast by American
Washington, July 11. The first broadcast of a state- ment attributed to an Amer- Ican prisoner of war of the North Korean Communists was reported today by U.S. Goy- ernment monitors.
The prisoner was identified in the broadcast by North Korean- controlled Seoul Radio as Captain Ambrose H. Nugent of the 52nd Artillery Battalion, 24th U.S. Army Division. Army
Announcer
A voice identified by a Korean as that of Captain Nugent read a statement of nearly 1.000 words in English on Sunday, "There is no general militaryThin denounced American Inter- victory strategically possible vention in Korea as a "barbarous for the Kremlin," he added. "But the men in the Kremlin
urged
are not always sane men."
Mr. Hoover urged the United
A United Press correspond- that American planes had crossed
American the Czech frontler and ent at an advance base In Korea, sold that the Lieutenant Harold E. Dili tud four men to safety of the Ama- kla rican lines today after six days Colorado beetles. behind the North Korean lines.
The
Weerder in order to infect the States and the United Nations to
by
Pte. Arthur. Allyn said that he
The men, who had been given had seen the bottes of two sol- diers at art
rescued aid station, their up for lost, were hands bound behind their backs South Koreans three days ago and with belts. They had been shot were led through the lines. In the throat.
MacArthur
General Douglas has warned the North Koreans that those responsible for atroc-
Dill described the six days as "a fox and hounds affair with the foxes outnumbered."
Private James Glisson said that many times there was only a
between ridge
them and the He said: "And pursuing Reds, com-
many times there was not even that."
ty killings will be punished. He has ordered UN soldiers to ob- serve the rules of civilised war- fare.
South Korean manders have so instructed their troops.
in
The bulk of the money, US$1.- 000,000,000 would go to North Wounded flown to Japan Atlantic Paci allies. Greece, Turkey and Iran are down for
Writing
pr Ambulance US$131,500,000, Stirred to ac-Plane Over The Sea of Japan, a tivity by the Korean outbreak. Reuter-AAP correspondent sald the Senate passed the bill 66-0 the nine wounded Americans on June 30.-Associated Press. straight from the battlefield and lying on stretchers inshed to the floor or the Dakota, do not have
fost the feeling of being more.
JAPS ACQUITTED
Manus Island, July 11. Lieutenant-General' Fussaro Teshima was acquitted today on charges of murdering two Aus- tralian Air Force officers in Dutch New Guinea in November. 1044. He was also acquitted on charges of responsibility for per- mitting war crimes.
Six men started but one wis
killed four days ago when the little party had to fight its way through an open rice paddy.
Glisson had two bullet holes through his pants leg from that battle.
Private Virgil Hanter told how ot one time the group had to any-crawl up the face of a hill while North Koreans fred at them with machine-guns from an ad- joining ridge.
Only few hours ago, when they fell to enemy fire fo the bloody turmell of battle In South Korea, they expected to be finished off like hored with broken legs.
A 19-year-old med.cal corps youth just suld that he had feigned death for Hygiene oficer Tabao Taurra
three-and-a- hours was acquilted
after machine-gun charges of huif mutilating the dead. He earlier bullets ripped into his ambulance.
murder Jeep.
Was acquitted on churge.
com-
During that time the invaders will be ambushed three Jeep-loads of Americans falling back.
"I could hear those wounded fellas right close holler for help, followed by a burst of fire that ended their pain," the youngster said.
Teshima
Твига and housed in the "holding pound" here pending repatriation. They were the first suspects ac- quitted in the current war crimes trinis United Press.
CZECH PROTEST TO THE U.S.
Prague, July 11.
In a pole to the American Em- bassy here, the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry today formally protested against the United Slates blockade of the Korean coast.
"The President of the United States, by imposing this blockade, grossly violates the Charter of the United Nations Organisation," the note suid-Reuter.
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When darkness came ho crawled painstakingly back to the American lines.
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lanky sergeant, with bullet through the knee-cap, said that his platoon had dug in on a rocky hilltop and were told to | hold -until their last bullet,
Only ona gun
at-
Swarming Communists tacked them on three sides with
machine-gun and mortar fire.
Hanter said: "I never thought we would get over that one alive."
"No chance"
Corporal Carl Formhals sald the South Koreans tried to help them as much as possible but they were in a pretty bad.condi-_ tion themselves.
Private Marshall McPherson said they travelled
mostly at night and stayed in Korek houses during the day. He said: "Korean soldiers found us food but they would not let us cal. They' sold the Comunists were right behind us all the tame. And, brother, they were not kidding."
Dill's unit was the first to see action last Wednesday. He said:
never had a chance, lined up some 30 tanks and went right through us. We had nothing to stop them with end had to gat back as best we could. I never felt so lonely in all my life or so hungry as we were during those past six days."
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They
The group was brought to the rear for rest and re-outfiting. Associated Press, Reuter and United Press.
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accusation was
Americans to desert to the Com- aggressive
nad action"
munists.
The official monitors reported define their goals and policies as said the voleu sounded like an It- the United
did in the American while the message States Monroe Doctrine.
self seemed to have been trun- He said: "We cannot success- slated from Korean. The speaker contained in a despatch from fully cope
with present world read it slowly, phrase by phrase, tired, halting, toneless voice. Berlin which reported an official problems or secure lasting pence in
Radio without consistent and clearly- Seoul statement by the German Demo-defined policies and objectives Nugent was
sald Captain cratic Republic alleging that on
among 72 captured July 5 two American planes had which we are prepared to sup-Americans from the 21st Infantry Regiment and the 32nd Field been observed dropping Colorado port and defend.
"Miltary strength is no sub- Artillery of the 24th Division. beetles over the Weissenzee institute for sound policy."-Un-
They were said to be held in Thuringia.
ed Press.
the Fifth Prisoner of War Camp in North Korea.Associated Press,
Observers in Moscow consider It certain that neither the Russians their Eastern European дог friends, the German Democratle Republic and Czechoslovakia, in- tend to drop their charges of Colorado beetle infestation against
the Americans.
BRITISH TROOPS RELEASED
Berlin, July 11. manned by eight British soldiers Three British armoured cars
were released by the Russians It is considered that the Rus-
tonight after being detained in |slan Government regards the re-
Zono the Eastern
for several
·cent American answer on the hours. Colorado Beetle charges as un- The soldiers had driven the satisfactory and that there is like vehicles across the bardar when ly to be another stiff Soviet note they lost their way, during train- on the same subject-Associated | Ing` exercises the French sector Press.
MERCHANTMEN
FOR ARMY
San Francisco, July 11,
of Berlin, and were promptly seized by the Russians.--United Press,
PEKING DIPLOMAT IN INDIA
Calcutta, July 1. There were reports in shipping Communist China's first regro- circles today, that about 15 freigh-sentative to India, Shen Chien, ters would be taken out of sur- arrived in Calcutta today from plus fleets on the West Coast liong Kong by sea. shortly for movement of supplies and troops to the Far East. Most -of-them would be Victory ships and perhaps a couple of refrige rater hips.
Shipping men speculated that vessels, would be needed to lift the Second Infantry Division; aleried at Fort Lewis for move- ment to the Orient-Associated Press.
He will be Charge d'Affaires at New Delhi till the arrival next month of the Ambassador, Gen- erol Yuan Chung-hsien-ASTO- ciated Press.
CALL FOR AIR RESERVISTS
San Francisco, July 11. The Fourth Air Force today Issued a call for 5,000 air reser- vists, particularly technical spe- Washington, July 11.
cialists,
to volunteer for active duty, President Truman today chose Mr. Gordon Dean, hitherto acting Bases in eight Western States need 700, officers and the rest Chairman, to be Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. enlisted airmen. - Associated -Reuter,
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A United States naval spokes- man today confirmed that the French Government had ordered one of its naval vessels in the Far East to be fitted out for service
in Korean waters-Reuter,
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