Evening star., 1953-10-31

portunlty TO live With other
prisoners, to get out and take
some exercise, play basketball,
and to write home" if he would
sign a bogus confession"
1.-THE first thing they did was
to find out my personal history
and start using my family
against me by saying that I
never would see my loved ones
again-my wife, my father and
my mother-and telling me that
I was going to commit suicide if
I didn't tell them and make this
alleged confession, 1t. Ham
NETT said.
cat Christmas time they
took me near a prisoner OF
war camp and they had all the
boys singing Christmas carols.
An interrogation came in and
started talking to me about
home and family and said I'd
never be repatriated and he
even made me believe I was
going to be killed if I didn't
make this so-called confession
I broke down."
Col. Evans said alternately
I was starved and fed" and that
he went through extended
periods-one of IL days-of not
being allowed to sleep. II was
bullied, slapped around. kicked
around, made to stand at atten-
ton for extended periods of time
in a hot room, sit on stool after
extended sleepless nights under
a bright light with constant
bullying and Interrogation, fire.
quently with a gun in my back"
II was aroused from my sleep
one night, marched half a mile
through the snow and stood half
a day at attention or for what
seemed like forever to me-" said
Col. Schwable.
Ink FrOze in Pen.
"The knuckles on my right
hand had already become FROST
bitten, the ink in my pen would
freeze after every several words
written and was unable to take
exercises to stimulate any circu-
lation for warmth"
Branded a war criminal, he
said, his captorS said he would
not be repatriated without
confession"
Water seeped through the
dirt floor 'on which I was re-
quired to sit at attention" re-
lated Major Bley. "At night I
was allowed to sleep if I wanted
to lie in the mud. The cave was
infested with rats and several
species of vermin."
In the portion of the film
made by POW's who did not
confess, Sergt. Morar and the
others described life at a noto-
rious camp near the Yalu drive
run by a particularly brutal Ko-
rean known as "Pak."
At "Pak's Palace" they said,
high ranking officers and civ
ilians, including Russians. were
visitors.
"They were there to look at
the American prisoners, to laugh,
to spit at us, throw rocks at u.s."
recalled Capt. Preston. "They
thought it was funny to see an
American up there as prisoner.
Many Russians There.
There we're many Russians
who visited PAX. We talked to
those people. They let us know
who they were. They weren't
trying to hide their identity be-
cause I think they felt that none
of the U. N. prisoners that were
there would ever get back to our
own country.
"One- of my friends died. We
had to dig him up three times to
get a watch that he was supposed
to have. The Koreans took the
watch. We put the man back in
the hole. 1t was pretty terrify-
ing thought to have your friends
die. It is even worse to have
to dig up the body. It is some
thing that I can't imagine any
Christian in the world or any
human being condoning."
The camp was unmarked and
subject to Allied bombing raids
and PAX questioned his captives
Is to 20 hours a day-"always
with a club or a gun" to slam
those in the face he thought were
not telling the truth.
Sergt. Morar was badly
wounded and burned when his
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