Evening star., 1953-09-10

Not Returned by Reds. Poss AS
Pole Who Asked U. S. Asylum in Korea
Sees Revolt at Home. Poee AS
moved rapidly into a new phase
the disposal of Red and allied
prisoners who refuse to return
to their homelandS.
The first group of 500 North
Koreans moved into the buffer
zone under control Of Indian
troops today.
A spokesman said they threw
rocks in rage when they saw two
Communist observers standing
outside a barbed wire fence. The
Communists backed out of range.
Neither was hit.
Chinese to Be Turned Over.
The first group of 1900 anti
Red Chinese was to be turned
over to Indian troops tomorrow.
The angry Red charge of kid
naping the Pole came in a meet
ing of the nation truce
supervisory commission.
Swedish Maj. Gen. Sven Graf
Strom, commission chairman,
said Communist Poland's dele
gate accused the Americans of
kidnapping Jan Hajdukiewicz, a
Polish interpreter who ducked
from his inspection team into
American hands as a plane
warmed up to take him back to
Red Korea yesterday.
Gen. Grafstrom said the Po-
lish delegate threatened to
lodge strong protest. probably
Saturday.
The other Red denunciations
were broadcast by Peiping radio,
often a weathervane for official
moves to come.
American Torture" Charged.
Peiping said 4,579 Red pris-
oners returned in the exchange
Just ended have been hospital
lied because of physical and
mental torture at the hands of
the Americans.
Condemning what it termed
"ghaStlv examples of American
brutality American torture
chamber methods" Peiping said
"a shocking number" of the 75,-
199 repatriates were suffering
from various diseases. 1t said
others were "gassed, hayoneted
and stoned" during the ex-
change.
American officials customarily
decline comment on such Red
broadcasts.
In another attack, Peiping
said the u. N. command faxed
a list Of 3,404 unrepatriated al
lied soldiers-missing men for
whom the U. N. c. demanded
ali accounting yesterday.
The allied list, which includes
944 Americans, came from va
riouS sources-returning pris-
oners. letters and even the Reds
own broadcasts.
FOrcible Detention Charged.
Peiping said the list was in
tended to divert world public
opinion from the fact that a large
number of Korean-Chinese POWs
who desire repatriation are still
being forcibly detained by the
Americans"
The Red radio apparently was
renewing its old claim that the
14,500 Chinese and 1900 North
Koreans who refuse to return to
communism are being held by
Allied force-not under their
own choice.
However, the first anti-Red
prisoners being moved into the
demilitarized zone contradicted
Peiping's words by hurting rocks
at the two Red observers.
An Indian spokesman said In
dian officers, including 1t. Gen.
K. S. Thimayya, "pacif1ed" lead
ers of the captives.
About $500 Chinese daily are
being shipped from prison camps
in Southern Korea to Inchon,
where they board trains for the
buffer zone.
Prisoners of both sides. will
remain under Indian control for
80 days beginning late in Sep
tember. During that time rep
resentatives of their homelandS
will try to persuade them to re-
turn. ....
Prisoners who still refuse will
be turned over to a political con-
ference scheduled this fall. If
the conference fails to settle
their fate in 80 days they will
be freed as civilians.