Korean Sergeant Describes Cruelties
He Suffered As Prisoner of Communists
FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea,<
—Pain-wracked Allied soldiers,
wounded only a few weeks ago in
bloody fighting for outpost hills
in western Korea, came back
from Communist captivity yester
day.
Some managed a smile or a
joke despite the pain of unhealed
wounds. Others, pale with shock
and suffering, gripped the sides
of their litters.
A South Korean told of almost
unbelievable cruelties by his North
Korean captors. Master Sergeant
Kim Ka Sung, 25, said the Reds
climaxed their torture by hacking
off all of his fingers—some with
a saw.
Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
the Eighth Army commander,
called it “a scandalous case.”
Some U.S. Marines freed yes
terday lived through the tremen
dous mortar and artillery bar
rages and hand-to-hand combat
on Vegas and Reno outposts on
March 26.
Kim, the South Korean, said he
was taken to the Communist pris
on at Hoenyung in December,
1950, and tourtured for two weeks.
He said the Communists forced
him to drink water in excessive
amounts and poured hot pepper
powder into his nose and mouth.
He was suspended from the
prison ceiling with his hands and
legs tied behind him.
Kim remarked that after his
arms had been bound for a long
time, the circulation was bad and
doctors told him his fingers would
have to be amputated.
He said the fingers on his right
hand were amputated by a saw;
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he was not given anything to dull
the pain.
Three days later, they cut off
the fingers of his left hand with
a knife. He was given no treat
ment and the only cure was put
ting his butchered hands out of
the window so the sun would
heal them.
WASHINGTON, UP>—A proposal
to inquire into Red atrocities
against prisoners of war in Korea
has been put temporarily on a
Senate shelf.
After being assured that the
Army and State Department will
step up collection of evidence with
a view to later war crimes prose
cutions of the Communists for
any atrocities against U.S. or Uni
ted Nations prisoners, the Senate
Appropriation Committee dropped
plans to investigate.
Some Americans captured early
in the Korean War came back to
day, bringing bitter memories of
a valley where 260 of 300 U.N.
pi’isoners died ... of a long march
which claimed 400 lives . . . and
of more than two years of misery.
Most of the Americans freed
yesterday by the Reds had been
recently wounded. But many of
the 40 who came back today were
the “old boys” swept up in • the
fall of 1050.
The men were pale and some
were emaciated. They limped or
were carried from the Communist
ambulances. *
The latest group of 40 Ameri
cans was the biggest since the ex
change began Monday. It boosted
to 119 the number liberated.
Anchorage Unemployment
Expected To Be Eased By
Military Building “Thaw”
ANCHORAGE, UPV—'The “thaw
ing” of $123 million worth of
military construction work in Al
aska is expected to bring relief
for the unemployment problem of
the Anchorage area.
Unemployment has been at an
all-time high here, with more than
3,000 on the jobless rolls. Nearly
all union halls have been flooded
with job applications from would
be construction workers.
Neither the construction season
nor the various seasonal industries
have got under way yet.
Most observers expect full scale
construction work to get under
way next month.
Montana Cowboys
Will Try To Set Up
Range in Alaska
GREAT FALLS, Montana, W!—
Six Montana adventurers left
Great Falls Wednesday for Alaska
and an attempt to set up a cattle
range in the Alaskan wilds.
The group will take up home
steads and lease federal grazing
land for a crack at cattle raising
in an area about 150 miles south
of Fairbanks.
“We figure we’ll lease 110 000
cr 40.000 acres for grazing,” sa*d
Roland Harper.
A1 Remington, one of Harpers
five partners, said “a few herds”
of range cattle have been started
along the Alaskan coastal areas.
As far as he knows none have
gone inland.
The pioneer cattlemen will clear
enough land this spring to grow
h?v and some grain for feed.
Thro, in the fall, they plan to
take 70 head of Aberdeen Angus
to start the herd.
Remington says there is a ready
market for the cattle once they’ve
been fattened, as all beef con
sumed in Alaska is flown in from
the United States.
The men figure it will be three
years before they have enough
cattle to begin selling.
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