Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-09
Many Among R0Ks
Freed Are PitifuI,
Pain-Ridden Cases
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change began, there were no
Chinese photographers on hand
to record the scene. It was not
the kind that made good propa-
ganda.
Allied personnel rushed the
South Koreans to helicopters for
a swift ride to Munsan where ex-
pert hospital care awaited them.
AS the Allied repatriates moved
south, Communist prisoners were
going north through the Red re-
ception center. The latter group
included 473 North Korean
women and l Chinese woman
nurses, wives and camp followers.
And there were % Korean
children under the age of S.
Some were born in prison camp.
Women Wave Flags.
AS the women and children
passed through the American
zone in a double convoy Of ambu-
lanceS they shouted "mansei"-
10000 years-and waved Com
muniSt flags. Many of the chill
dren were crying.
The returning women and
children were among 2,879 more
North Korean and Chinese re-
patriateS.
This brought to more than a.
600 the number of Reds sent
back so far from the $4,000
listed for return from Allied
POW camps.
The machinery of prisoner ex-
change was functioning smoothly,
but there were background signs
of coming dispute.
In Washington. the State De-
partment said it told the Com
munistS they must turn over to
the five-nation ArmiStice Re-
patriation Commission all u. N.
prisoners captured in the Korean
war.
Acting Secretary of State Wal
ter Bedel Smith in a statement
expressed concern over reports
that the Communists may not
intend to return all U. N. pris-
oners in their custody.
Some Americans Jailed.
Returning Americans have told
of some fellow prisoners being
sent to Jail by the Reds for what
the Communists termed "insti-
eating against peace"
Others said the Reds were
holding back four allied soldiers
who once had been guards at the
Koje Island prison camp, where
Red POW richards have rioted
and been controlled by force.
Gen. Mark w. Clark, U. N.
commando rim the Far East, said
in Washington a few days ago
he thought the Reds might hold
up to 5000 U. N. prisoners not
listed for repatriation.
The State Department state
ment said progress of the pris-
oner exchange was being watched
very closely and appropriate
action will be taken as soon as
definite facts are established"
The Peiping radio has quoted
an article in the Peoples Daily.
Chinese Com uniSt Party
mouthpiece, specializing that the
allies may be holding 1000 Red
prisoners over the "a, 1000 listed.
It said the U. N. command
cannot evade" the RESPONSE
bility to account clearly for this
discrepancy"
The newspaper said that Gen.
Clark last May told the Reds the
allies held $4,000 Communists.
but in June changed the figure
to $4,000.
Under terms of the armiStice,
the United States State Depart
ment pointed out, all war pris-
onerS not returned must be made
available to their own officers
for interviews under the super
vision of the armiStice repatria-
ton commission.
The Peiping broadcast, heard
in Tokyo, limited that not all
the 1878 allied prisoners the
Reds listed would be returned.
It said that IF any prisoners do
not wish to be directly repatri-
ated, the (North) Korean and
Chinese side will inform the
other side of the number as
soon as possible"
- So far as is publicly known.
only a handful of allied POWs
have refused to be returned.
Some Americans already ex-
changed have said they knew of
several Americans and one Briton
who elected to remain behind at
the POW camp at Pyoktong in
North Korea, on the Yalu River.
Repatriated Corpl. Thomas
Murray, of Baltimore, Md. who
told of the GIs remaining at the
camp, said at first there were
seven Americans among them,
but later changed the figure to
eight six whites and two
Negroes.
Corpl. Murray said the men
stayed behind because they feared
reprisals by fellow captives who
believed they had turned infor-
mers for the Reds.
Corpl. Tommie Hampton of
Chicago, another returned pri-
soner, said one stool pigeon"
had been killed by fellow prison.
erS.
M/Sergt. Louie M. Leach Of
Columbus. Ga. said he knew of
three Americans who refused re-
patriation. Asked by newsmen
if the trio feared retaliation, he
said:
You're damned right I think
so. We told them we would
throw them over the side of the
ship. There are guys up there
who would give their lives to get
even"
More MiStreatment Related.
Americans returned yesterday
added further chapters to the
previously freed captives' stories
of Communist miStreatmnnt of