Evening star., 1953-08-20
Next POW Exchanges
To Include Higher
Portion Of Americans
BY the Axsesicted Press

FANMONJOM, Aug. ZU.-1nS
great Korean war prisoner ex-
change passed the halfway mark !
today and there was every indi- |
cation the Reds will start send
ing home larger numbers of
Americans daily.
They promised $50 tomorrow
the biggest United States group
yet-and it appeared the stepped
up rate will continue indefinitely, |
Three hundred South Koreans
also will be freed tomorrow.
Sixty Americans, 90 British
and 800 Koreans were freed to-
day in the 10th day of exchange
at this tiny village.
Most of BritOnS Freed.
No British were scheduled to
return tomorrow for the first
time since the swap began. The
Reds have delivered 800 Of the
922 British promised.
The Reds have turned over
only 1915 Americans, we'll under
half of the 1913 they listed.
Today's shipment brought the
number of allied troops freed to
6,533. just over half of the H.
1853 the Reds promised.
No Communists were sent
north today and no more are
scheduled until Saturday. Ty-
phoon conditions disrupted al
lied shipping from the Koje
Island prison camps of South
ern Korea.
Torture of Airman Told.
The stream of happy men to-
day told more of the grim stories
Of life in the Red stockades.
Three returning prisoners told
. heartbreaking story of an
American airman Staked in the |
sun and left to die because he /
would not back up phony germ |
warfare charges by the Commu-
nistS.
Shortly after the prisoners re-
turned. the Joint Military Armi-
stice Commission met at its |
Panmunjom headquarters on
Red request.
The Reds gave no indication
what they wanted to discuss.
Red China's Peiping radio
charged that American authori-
ties have obstructed Communist
Red Cross teams visiting prison
camps in South Korea to the
point that the teams "have vir-
tually suspended their opera
tions"
However, Allied representatives
accused the Communist workers
of activities bordering on spying
and told them to stop it.
More Charges of HoldOut.
A South Korean repatriated
today added to the stories of a
Red POW holdout. He said the
North Korean army has a bri-
gade of at least 5000 South Ko-
rean prisoners who wouldn't be +
repatriated. I
He said thousands of other
South Korean prisoners were
working more than 20 hours a
day in forced labor.
Meanwhile, more Americans
freed in the early days of the
exchange streamed toward home. +
The hospital ship Haven, with .
104 disabled United States re-
patriateS aboard, sailed from /
1nchon in South Korea for ia
pan. There it will load more
Korean war sick and injured .
and continue to the United |
States. where it is due about .
September IA.
Transports Returning.
The transport Marine Adder .
will leave Inchon Saturday with /
400 able bodied United States .
repatriates. The nonstop trip
to the United States will take
about two weeks. (
And the transport Gen. Nelson
M. Walker is due in San Fran /
cisco Sunday morning with the
first shipload of 328 former pris-
oners on their way home.
Some Americans were reluc-
tant to talk to newsmen at first
for fear of causing trouble for /
the soldiers not yet repatriated. /
This was the case of soldiers /
who saw aviators tortured in az
effort to make them confess"
to germ warfare.
Corp. Irwin Edwards, %, of
Knoxville. H., said he saw one
aviator chained to a pole in the /
boiling sun until he died "a .
hours later, in June, 1851.
This incident took place near
Camp 2-where all officers and .
airmen, enlisted and commits |
stoned, were held.
Corpl. Edwards said he saw
another aviator chained each |
day for weeks to a wall in such |
a position he could neither sit |
nor stand.
He was another one who
would not confess" he added. !
81 understand that he later was
sentenced to to 10 years in
prison"
Corpl. Edwards story was sup
ported by David E. Fortune, 81. |
of Pickens. S. c.. and Corpl. |
William J. Caprin, %. of Fulton, /
N. Y. All three agreed that air.
men-enlisted men and officers
received special attention from
the Chinese.
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