The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-05
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OCCUPATION
OF KOREA
(By the Associated Press

With United Nations approval for
invasion assured, 175,000 American
and Allied troops massed along the
38th parallel facing North Korea
today while South Korean forces
probed 60 miles inside the Com
munist northland.
The United Nations Political
Committee, on which all members
of the Assembly are represented,
has given the go-ahead signal for
measures to unity Korea, and Gen.
MacArthur's headquarters has made
it clear his forces are ready to go
into North Korea as needed.
North Korea's Communist regime
at Pyongyang continued to ignore a
surrender ultimatum broadcast to it
last Sunday and repeated steadily
since then.
Full Vote Expected Soon
A vote of the full United Nations
Assembly giving the implied per-
mission for the invasion is to come
swiftly. perhaps the end of this
week.
This plan. sponsored by Britain,
Australia, Brazil. Cuba, The Meth
erlands, Norway. Pakistan and the
Philippines, permits the U. N. forces
to remain in Korea long enough to
achieve unity. It calls for elections
for all Korea under UN. sponsor
ship, economic rehabilitation of the
country, and a new U. N. commits
sion of seven members to see that
the directives are carried out. This
plan was adopted by Al to vote
in the Political Committee last
night. with only the Soviet bloc
voting against 1t. s. -A.s..ss
Thus far only South Korean
troops are across the 38th parallel.
The South Korean Third Division
was 60 miles north of the parallel
and within 25 miles of Tongchon,
where the Reds might attempt
stand to defend Wonsan, industrial
center IS miles farther north. AT
least 10000 South Korean troops al
ready were inside North Korea.
us. Marines south of the parallel
drove northward from rubbed
Uijongbu, 20 miles from North Ko-
rea, against only scattered resist
ance. nanG
New Bases for Airplanes
Moving forward with the ground
forces, seven squadrons of jet and
other fighter planes were on new
bases within easy range Of any
North Korean target. The North
Korean cities previously had been
the targets only of B-29s based in
Okinawa.
In the south, trapped and widely
scattered Red remnants were turn
ing to guerrilla tactics in attempts
to harass rear areas.
Civilians Are Murdered
The Red path back north has
been Uttered with the bodies of
$4,000 murdered men, women and
children, by official Allied estimate.
Some of the victims were American
prisoners of war, but most are
civilians who had been judged anti
Communist, and the $4,000 figure is
said to be only minimum.
The victims were bludgeoned,
knitted. burned or hacked to death
for opposing Communism and many
were dumped into mass graves
Other bodies were left exposed in
the Communists hasty retreat.
Whole families of suspected anti
Communists were moved down.
The United Nations Commission
in Korea heard first-hand reports
of the atrocity murders and cabled
preliminary findings to U. N. Sec
rotary General Trygve Lie at Lake
Success. The message said, THE
Commission condemns the complete
disregard by the North Korean
authorities of civilized standards Of
behavior as well as the principle of
the Geneva conventions, despite
assurances to the contrary"
French Move Back
Elsewhere in Asia, French forces
fighting Communicated rebels in
Indo-C China battled through strong
resistance to cover a withdrawal
from their Caobang garrison.
Abandonment of Caobang. key post
on the Red China frontier. was an
nounced yesterday as part of a
large-scale French regrouping OPP
Grafton.
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