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kills 15
Tokyo, October 22. Fifteen people have died in Osaka from eating fish ba- lleved to have been "sailed" with sodium nitrate (Chile saltpetre) instead of salt, the newspaper "Asah! Shimbun" reported today.
About 33 pounds of the fish ware
Osaka and cold In neighbouring cities,
The police said that most
of the people who had eaten the fleh were seciously Router.
CHAPLIN GIFT
TO OLD SCHOOL
Hanwell, Middlesex, October 23.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1950.
STORY OF MASSACRE
OF AMERICAN
By Don Whitehead
POW'S
Sunchón, North Korea, October 21 (Delayed) Korean Rods massacred at least 68 American prisoners of war on Friday
night near the Sunchon railway tunnel 10 miles North of hard. The Communist guards led their prisoners from a train into nearby fields under the pretext of taking them to supper. Then they machine-gun- ned them.
Sixty-six men were killed
Finally they reached Pyong-
He was propped against the bank among the dead, weak and pale. His eyes were trying to smile. He was Corporal Dale Blake,
He enid, "Oh God, so glad you came." Tears coursed down his checks. "I didn't think anybody would ever find us."
on the spot. Two others died yang. When that city was threat during the night. ·
ened the prisoners were ordered By sonic miracle, at least 21moved. About 150 were put on one train and other 150 on a men, nany of them wounded: second train headed North toward Jived through the hour-long
the Manchurian border. The men massacre to tell the story.
Survivors have been flown to we fuund had beer: on the second train, Whereabouts of the firs Japan for treatment.
trainlond is 'unknown. The slaughter of
Tucker gave him a elgarette of the Americary
The second train of boxeurgand told him to sit quietly and prizoners was
at Buchenwald, the concentration camp.
.
Charlie Chaplin has a soft spot 1945qual to anything reached the Sunchon tunnel on everything would be all right.
for the poor boys' school here, where he learned the "three Rs" and possibly a few of his comedy
tricks.'
The thin, emarcipated bodies of the men
who ha
had been pri- solers for more than two month were piled in three groups along the
tracks railroad
One heap of i lay in a gully hidden by under- brush. Another pile of 15 was sprawled In a cornfield. The
hers lay in a mass grave fa a diten beside the trocks.
Friday morning and all day it sa in the tunet, hiding from Amer- lean planes.
At dusk on Friday the Red guards told the men they were being taken outside for
their evening meal.
Then a weak voice came from the bank above us. Through the weeds crawled Private Ray Han- chey. He hart a leg wound out He told was not perlously hurt. the same story as the others. They were led into the fields,
We made them as comfortable sented, and shot.
Sunchon with an possible and started out to look Across the out from Brigadier-General Frank Allen, for other survivors.
Get out
goes towards the here men had been shot, piled Deputy Commander of the First Deld I saw other bodies. They
From Hollywood bo has sent £10 to Hanwell's "cuckoo" school, as it is known locally, He attended with his brother Syd, in the early 1900's.
The money restoration of memorial, Q stained glass window dedicated one on the other and their bodies to "cuckoo" schoolboys who died covered with earth. in the first World War.
Sonie
Americans escaped from Chaplin has made previous the train before the Reds decided donations and has visited his old to machine-gun their prisoners school twice in the last 20 years, way South for several days. We These have been making their found seven of them while in- vestigating a rumour that Reds had massacred a trainlond
-Reuter,
Nearly
ALIENS DETAINED
New York, October 22.
one-third of the 424 aliens aboard the liner Saturnia were detained under the new American internal securily law when she arrived from Italy today.
Most of the 136 people sent to Ellis Island were Italians and
Gemans,
Mr. Edward Shaughnessy, the District Commissioner of Immi- gration sald that it was the lar- group held for questioning test they recently came into
force.
They included the German wife of a former American sol- dier and their two children. Her husband refused to be separated and accompanied them to Ells Istand-Reuter.
of Americans.
the
From the stories of all the escaped prisoners
picced together this account of the death
murch and its end:-
was
March North
Cavalry Division, anci Richard were lying in the corn fick. The Tucker of the "Baltimore Sun" to wind rustled the dry stalks about check on the reported slaughter. then. There were 15 dead in this A South Korear. Army officer and group.
civilian led us to the tunnel,
From their postures, they had been sitting in the cornfield in a circle waiting with their bowls food when the Reds for their jopened Bre, Blord was still wel on their clothing. Their bodies had the same starved appearance
Starved to death After a reconnaissance, the South Korean officer reported hu had found seven bodies inside the tunnel
We walked
up the hill and as the others. through the tunnel. The sevent were lait en crude mats beside
Like scarecrows
the track. Obviously they were victims of starvation. The tiesh Just then General Allen yelled had wasted from their bodies. The from a ridge top that he had some other Hurvivors. skin was drawn tight on their found arms, legs and over
their ribs. Tucker and I started toward the ridge, when out of the bushes There was no sign they had came Privates John Martin, Mel-
The prisoners had been captured late in July and early in August on the Southern Korean battle-Their faces were bony masks. front. They were taken to Stuul. Three days after the U.S. Marines landed at Inchon on September 15, the Reds begin marching tha prisoners North to the Red capital
city of Pyongyang.
When they
On this long march, many Americans
died. were too weak to keep up, they were shot or clubbed to death. The Americans own dead along the way.
Buried their
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On the ridge top, General Allen,
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come running into the tunnel, to save the olivers." crying that he had scer five These six were Privates Johr' Americans on a ridge above the Tonny Max E. Reld, Roy G, Sut- tunnel.
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dead
We walked along the tracks, and out of the underbrush came From their stories, we suspected a gaunt, trembling figure whose there was a third group of victims face was Olled with fear. He was which we had not yet found. Private First Class Valdor John of Milwaukee, I ran up to him and he threw his arms about my neck and burst into tears.
"Oh, thank God," he gasped. hank God. We've been waiting for you guys so long."
I gave him a cigarette.
After a search we found their mass grave in a gully.
10 feet
The thinly-covered mound was about 50 feet long and wide. We due into the soft loam and there were the bodies of 30 odd
men.
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They shot us all," he gasped. were blood-stained. "They took us off the train. They South Kercan troops are search- sald we were going to cat chov. 'ing through the mountains fo in a Korean house. Then uney set other bodies or for prisoners wh
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