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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1953.
་
A MISSIONARY LIFTS THE VEIL ON KOREA
COMMIS
TED WITH
FRIENDS
I Survived The
Death
March
Was
"White
Shepherds using his bedroom. Then it the
to rig us out decently. Each of military Law" We knew that sing man got a comb, a tooth- meant death; but after that flist Warhed Their Flocks By Night" brigadier arrived to fill our bath terrible night 13 or 14 men were The commandant frowned. with hot water with his own that brush, a cake of soap and a forect to fall out.
"Wild shophers?” he repented, hands. Can you wonder puzzled. "Tell me-what makes. overy moment we exported to towel. Eventually, we were
the shepherds wild?"
find that this was just all a joined by some 720 U.S.
On Christman Day he appeared dream? officers and men.
Furiously, The Tiger demanded the intant execution of the sec tion commanders. Somehow, with on God's help, I was able to talk him out of it. The column noved off aralin. Old and young, men, wemen and children, were forced to march.
in our midst just as the carol Bishop Cooper and I were service began and sat through
We went to Man-Po October 30, 1950. That night we slept in an open, roof less house. With us was the 70-year-old Bishop of Next meraing. after another night in the snow, ten mea wire Korea, Dr Alfred Cooper.
found frozen stiff. Others dropped Next day we got a new ast along the road, never to be leader, domineering seen again. The rest of us sham- North Korean, whom we bied ping the strong trying to "Any man who can stand up and walled and
it most respectfully. He seem- reunited with Captain Holt, Wa ex reelly to enjoy himself.
had seen none of our Legation friends since the end of the "death march."
ก
christened "The Tiger." We support the weak. were moving, and because I
could speak Korean he told
me: "You'll take charge of
the whole column."
By Salvation Army Commissioner
in
HERBERT
TOO LATE
EVEN provided
As interpreter, I was reped in- to translate the Red indoctrina- tion into language the captive
Then, as we were, getting up American coldiers could under-
on the morning of April 8, the I don't think I was much brigadier saune to see us stand.
IL
use to the Communist cause,
I told the grinning soldiers; face wreathed in smiles, he told us the news for which he had prayed for three keep talking for more than two minutes gels 'pass... What weary years.
"You are going home today!" they talked about didn't matter. The Koreans couldn't under- he said. stand, anyhow,
AVENTUALLY The Tiger
On August 12, 1952, we were transport for taken to Oɔ-Chẳng, where, for women and children the first time, we came under
FREEDOM
1 pointed out that the the certain of the aged the Chinese Commissarlat. IMAT night, for the last time, majority of the column, and
wonderful. Our rations we boarded a Korean truck. A nine-day match were stopped up from 700 full general, no less, picked up which now 'numbered 800, n. But it was ico llc. When was
the dreadful were American soldiers. I ended at Clroong Kong-Ni. Father grammes, to 800 grammes of our bundles and carried them J. Charles Huat, two Belgian nuns meat, rice and good white meal. to the walling vehicles. And la suggested that Major J.
We were issued with thick seemed genuinely happy to do Dunn, the senior U.S. and Sle: Mary Clare had died,
Ninety-eight American soldiers padded shoes, three complete this little service for us,
With no bitterness on either 27 officers had disappeared along changes of clothing, with soap.
were on our way to the route. Two hundret more were tooth brusher, tooth paste and alde, we to die later as a result of their towels. On special days, such as freedom. suffering.
New Year's Day, we got cranges Of our journey home much and sweets. Pheasants and has already been written. Yet chickens varied our diet.
I feel I must record again the kindness we received at the hands of Koreans, Chinese and Russians.
The Russians' one topic of "Wo conversation was peace. don't want war," they told us re- peatedly.
LORD
Thomas
Jack
I
officer, should be given the command.
Grudgingly. The Tiger said: "OK-but he'll take his instructions from and you'll be responsible me."
you, to
an interview with
have 1960, when we heard that my life I
good war had broken out. Next believed in a and merciful God. morning, it was clear that But
after Seoul was going to fall. today
American
and women three years, of captivity in North Koren. I believe in children were evacuated. the goodness and mercy of saw my wife and other women associated with the God as never before.
Without. Ilia strengthen- misalons leave at 4 a.m. on ing innd to shield and Tuesday, June 27.
i tok Captain Vyvyan guide us we should never have survived our "death. Holt, the British Minister march" of 160 Horror-filled in Korea, that I intended to
stay in the Legation. miles,
That is not the "profes- simal" verdict of an officer in the Salvation Army. It is the personal testament of a plain man.
THE TIGER
ON June 28 North Korean troops entered the Lega-
Captivity is no new ex- tion. The following Sunday perience for me. I was in- afternoon ierned by the Japanese for Koreans,
three North armed with
315 years after the fall of tommy-guns, ordered us to Singapore. But let me say board a station wagon. We at once there could be no should not be gone long, between the they said about 20 comparison treatment
I and my com- minutes.
do not believe that the North Korean Goverment or milllery ecmmanders had any po.1 in th's derrible tragedy. I believe thai the men in charge, of us-The Tigers acting entirely on his om authority, I try to think charitably of him on a mental
cast.
REUNION
N
March 20, 1953, the com- manding officer sent for me, "You are going to Pyongyang "Pack tonight," he told me. up."
FOOTNOTE. — One incident Our truck was met at Pyong in the tragic death march from a colonel Men-Po to Choong Kang-NI yang by a brigadier, and other high Korean officers. Commissioner Lord did not re-
late. But the story is told They were the soul of courtesy,
by nud Insisted on carrying our Philip
Philip Deane, a reporter who baggage into our new quarters shared the horrors of the march. "Commissioner Lord," he says, You shall have half --a dugout in a distised com "pleaded on his knees for one
mine.
From Choeng Kang-Ni we wens laken Ove e: six miles to Na Chang-Ni. This was to be the hardest period of our captivity. Yet it had its lighter mements.
On Christmas Eve I asked pe: misalon to hold a carol rervice.
"Certainly," said the We started from Man-Fo en
com mandant. WE'} All Souls Day, 1950. It bliterly cold and plich dark, an hour. But you must submit Aiter two miles we lay down in to me a list of the songs you the snow-covered fields to sleep. propose to sing."
Before we moved off The Tige: told us "If any man falls out the ecrmmander of his section will be punished with the utmost gour
I had broken my only denture, so I suppose my articulation was hardly perfect as I explained that one of the carols we wanted to
JOSE-THE IN WHITE
LEX'S
warn-THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS Ing ery
The night we dined on caviare, brown bread, butter-the first we had seen for three years! and cocoa with milk and sugar.
Early next morning the oclonci come in to see us. We were
GUIDE BOOTS
rudes in misfortune re.That was July 2. We of "Flicks By-AIREY NEAVE, DSO, OBE, MC penalty
man's life during the march- pleaded while the gun which had Just been used for another mur- der was held to his forehead to siop him from pleading. "And. he did not alop."
(16)
Allies with great courage and paid the of
My
the
on
over
out of North sent us pant- ceived from the Japanese were never
sonment by Koreans and Korean hands again until ing for the und from the
as word. He tapped on a side the Germans, At the end the bushes beside the road April 8, 1953. It was Chines
war he deservedly Apart from one terrible longest "20 minutes" I ever the police car roared up. door and to our consterna- of the
received a high decoration, Our guide stood his ground tlon a gendarme entered. interlude of which I shall hope to know!
bed beside the ancient Citroen "Who is this?" I cried I never slept in a
We followed Maurice from teil you. I honestly believe
the cafe at an interval that the Koreans did their again until April, 1953. and perhaps his Black fearing a trap.
Old reputation stood the wife claims I still carry Market
"Who is this?" said the of thirty yards to the best for us daring
him in good stead. There bald man sourly, "This is whole time we were in their marks of floor-boards
He were voices, but the police Jacques. my torso!
will fetch modern flats. He signalled at length released me, but when 1 rejoined our party by the us to stop, turned back and seashore Rene shouted "Look!" power.
As far as their supplies car moved on, and soon we someone to talk to you." The trouble started in
towards the the Soon there was a knock whispered to us in a shop and pointed back Seoul on Sunday, June 25, allowed, the Koreans tried were bumping
pave into Annecy.
on the frosted glass. A slim doorway: "I think there is station.
someone watching the flat, "Thia," said Alex as we man of middle age, dressed
of in a pulled up, is the house
smart grey double- hide yourselves here like a Pierre. and Cecile." Climb- breasted suit
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ing gloomy wooden stairs, pork-pie hat, entered the give the signal."
a
different
room
"The password, please,"
瓿
A gendarme was riding tô- wards, us in Q cloud of dust. Behind him
Inoro wrne two I ominous figures on bicycles.
"Meet at Jose's house," shout- ed Rene, as he started to run. We tore across the
leap-
ing over anchors, rock pieces
London clubs. We repeated hustled us in and ordered us to row of white houses, The sh
the
we came to a dismal three- "oomed flat. Cecile was in
of wreckage, scattering towards THE recent towing into plement of 00, including 45 young the kitchen. She was about Danish cadets. Her course lay
E hid in the doorway until the brushwood in the low hills. His accent, though WE we saw him lift his hat us Woollatt and I, whistling to Colombo port by the through the southern ocean via thirty and had a round face he said in English. British cargo ship, Rance, the "Road.
Forties," and then resembling a pink cake of
soap and her hands were French, had a flavour of signal, then climbed to Maurice's each other, soon made contact in of the motor vessel, the she
Throgmorton Street and of fel on the fourth floor. Maurice the brushwood beyond the last Four months Inter the British shaking as she prepared Holchu, found drifting in the Indian Ocean between ship Haleslus called at Tristan meal.
the password obediently in were our slippers all the week sergeant, who had been with us
put on heavy felt slippers. We familiar face of Jan, da Cunha, the world's loneliest
Cecile was Colombo lond. Here the crew learned
Toulouse, appeared and
the in- at
grinning. Singapore
We waited till dusk-be- without a trace of her crew, that one January
naked us many questions. mates of the flat below were
"You saintly Mademoiselle Jeanne
сап cali repeated almost in detail the islanders had seeming the type of heroine from the our best French and he wo were in the flat.
me suspected of being on the side of fore seeking Jose's house an Vichy. Of the many British emergency address wo had been most famous mystery of Ave masts drift by.
no one move on board, and only---she could not conceal her Maurice, you chaps." he prisoner of war sheltered by given-and- there found most of the Seven Seas that of the fear of the consequences of Marie Celeste. It did not, caught her and turned her off however, by any means into the mist, and she was not
epics the only seen again. make these two enigmas of the sens of their kind.
#
morning
They saw
#
old
us
류
helping Allied officers to lips in mock secrecy. Then not one was caught in the flat,
In Maurice's dat we met escape. In the spring of he did.a curious little pas 1942 the Vichy police ar-
around seni
several members of the escape. £111
MUSTAPA organisation, Including Rene, a rested sympathisers of de
handsome Englishman, born in JOSE was a litle dark guide who were pure white boats Be No wreckage of the barque has Gaulle
France, and flung Allied fashioned armchair.
It was Rene who took Reven
"When you get back I found, only In 1037 the Zebrina, n slip ever been
hope you will take some to the station, where we met collected large bundles of crisp a small, elderly man and a blond new notes from Rene and the built at Whitstable as long agn skeletons discovered beside the solliers into prison camps.
1feboat, half-
messages for me to my young man a beret. They others, counted them with care, as 1973, finally become a house- remains of
the desalate boat in the peaceful waters of submerged among
solicitors. I wanted to send were introduced as Mr Roberts then insisted on its abandoning Million, on
the shores of the sandhulis of a West African coast,
bottle of champagne to and Mr all but our essential. possessional
with you to Spa
At midnight he
he shepherded by are to travel Langston Harbour, after a hectic seemed to provide a thin clue to
to a path which led to tặc hìữși Soon we were crammed inte life on the high seas. It ended the riddle. From the shape of CECILE was sobbing with my brokers but I doubt if
The night was clear and stórlif terror as we left with Alex you will get that past the third-class carriage en the train In 1017, when she was found the skulls they were Nordic,
A ghostly drifting near Cherbourg, all her
sea mystery co and Pierre to drive over the Pyrenees!" He slapped his to Toulouse, where we were to as we followed Jose's white bests a height of 1,000 sectoald o sails sot, the tables laid ready for cerned the Crest. Commanded next stage, to Chambery thigh and laughed heartily, spond an impatient week in an to
vest heather. a meal, but not a soul on board, by Captain Shaw and with a
Then on and, over h complement of 28 souls, she left Here we caught the Mar. I do not know if the true old and sinister hotel in whose stopping for a short rest.
rooms spoke many voices-Poles,
As slippery shale and ley streams. Scotsmen, the Canton River, China, boundsellles express, and at dawn story of Maurice's work for rem
Frenchmen, Whether the crew left the ship for home on June 3, 1887. She were walking through dark, the Allies will ever be writ- tralians, all fugitives essembling By four am, even the young rid
China
-Sé nmmong its were exhausted and or was spoken to in the free will
Itene gave us each a new sot the older Mr Roberts was carried, whether a German submarine but the next time she was halled dirty passages seeking an ten. Ho had business in- for the journey into Spain. took them prisoner and was there was to response. As a boat address near the Canebiere. tereats in the City of Lon of pers before Hugh Woollati groaning, by his arms and bet
shoulders. At length we sat nt itself, torpedoed will never be pulled toward her, on appalling
a don before the war; now he and I set off in a party of twelve or on our
into pairs in different It was high noon that cZV- known, and it remains one of the stench came over the water. One table in a small, neat was one of the most do- split
brovo .man, Mr
workers sea's most intriguing mysteries.
of the sections of the train to Perpignan fore we crossed the troitier fir * Cerbere, and I cought węglinger More recent was the disap- McFalm, boarded her and found cafe and asked a walter for voted pearance of the
At the barrier at Part Vendres of light green uniforms and black training ship the whole ship's company dead "Gaston." A little bald man Resistance. He was rich and and Port Vendres.. Kobenhavn, the last and finest presumably from one horrible ushered us in silence to a could, had he wished, have
a suspicious gendarme, no doubt cocked hals in a valley below us of the Evo-masted barques. In plague. Me Mclaim, who took December 1020, the left Buenos no harm, sat fire to the stricken room behind and asked us stayed away from the seeing a gulity expression on my
peremptorily for the pass struggle. But he served the face, questioned ene closely. ile Tomorrow--Guarded Again Aires for Melbourne with com- ship and left her to burn.
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