eovering his bloody eye, which had SPANISH WAR VET INJURED Peace demonstrators beaten up by police “I'm going right back into the East Side with the peace petition when I get out,” said Bill MéCarthy, national director of the National Maritime Union I saw him in hospital here. Bill was brutally smashed by six detectives after speaking from a high lamp post at 18th Street and Fourth Avenue during the big peace demonstration at- tended by some 15,000 New York- ers on August 2. Ps I saw the plain clothesmen kick- ing Bill in the eye and the groin as he lay on the pavement, while a deputy chief inspector looked on. Two cops would kick away his hands as he tried to protect his face and his groin while the heels of the rest smashed in. Bill had stood on the lamp post for half an hour shouting: “We ‘want no more Hiroshimas, we want peace!” before a fireman from a hook and ladder extension kicked him down into the fists and heels of the waiting cops. Bill is badly hurt. A patch was bled six hours the night before. The doctors fear that two or three ribs are cracked, and they say he is suffering from internal injuries. “The cops beat me so badly be- cause I was Irish,” Bill explained. “They said: ‘That other fellow of you.” “And I’m ashamed of them as tIrishmen,” said Bill. “The Irish on the flagpole across ‘the street NEW YORK and Spanish war veteran, when is Jewish. We expect that of Jews. But you’re Irish! We're ashamed people have a progressive tradi- tion. They have fought for peace and freedom for centuries.” Bill said the cops were constant- ly jibing at the Jews and the Negro people in the Mercer Street sta- tion, where a Negro demonstrator named Jehn Evans had been tak- en after a beating. And the cops chuckled, he said, t the way they had attacked the peace mar- chers, “This was a beaut,” said one. “It was like Peekskill,” said an- other, “I was there.” “So was I,” said the other. McCarthy was severely wounded by a grenade burst in Spain in 1937, when the members of Ame- rica’s Abraham Lincoln Brigade helped take the town of Brunete. He was fighting fascism then. And he’s fighting fascism today in the U.S. ‘ Korean civilian casualties from U.S. bombing dwarf Nazi blitz on: Britain LAKE, SUCCESS The indiscriminate slaughter of Korean civilians by U.S. bombing dwarfs the excesses committed by the Nazi air force in the highly publicized blitz over Britain in 1940-41, That fact emerged last- week from a document prepared by Pak Hen Nen, foreign min- ister of the Korean People’s Democratic Republic, and presented to the United Nations Secur- ity Council by Jacob Malik,.chief Soviet delegate. When the Nazi _ Luftwaffe opemed up on Britain -(Septem- ber, 1940 to May, 1941), it killed about 4,500 civilians a month, ac- cording to official British statis- tics. In little more than a month of operation over Koréa, the U.S. Air Force has termin- ated at least twice that number of civiliams, the Korean docu- ment discloses. With the U.S. Air Force having virtually undisputed domination in the skies over Korea, and hence in a position to select its targets, the wanton slaughter of civilians can only be attributed to a deli- berate policy. The document submitted by Ko- rean Foreign Minister Pak Hen Nen follows in full: - The government of the Korean People’s Democratic Republic has at its disposal numerous facts de- monstrating that the American in- terventionists, having encountered decisive resistance from the Peo- ple’s Army and the whole Korean people, are resorting to inhuman barbarous methods of waging war in Korea, thinking by cruelty to break the will of our people to resist the foreign invaders. In their efforts to enslave the Korean people, they are ruthlessly violat- ing the rules of international law and the standards of human mor- ality. The American Air Force is en- gaging in barbarious attacks on undefended Korean towns and in- dustrial centers where there never were and are not now any mili- tary objectives, destroying houses and leaving people without a roof over their heads; destroying the schools, hospitals, and other cul- tural institutions; slaughtering of peaceful inhabitants, old people, women and children, and destroy- ing their property. For example, when the Ameri- can Air Force bombed Pyongyang between June 29 and August 2, American planes’ dropped a large number of bombs on the residen- tial parts of the town, repeatedly bombarded the town with rocket- guns and machine guns. In parti- cular, American aircraft shot up the peaceful inhabitants of Pyong- yang with guns and machine-guns during the attacks of June 30, July 3, 4, 5, 20 and 23 and August 2. On July 4, American aircraft, hav- ing suddenly appeared over Pyong- yang, machine-gunned a crowd of the People’s Municipal Committee when they were dashing to the shelters. The aircraft flew several times over the main streets of the town, firing along them with ma- chine-guns. This bombing and machine-gun- ning of Pyongyang destroyed more than 200 dwelling houses and de- stroyed the People’s Hospital and a number of buildings of the Poly- technical Institute. As a result of the raids of Pyongyang, some 700 inhabitants were killed and more than 500 persons were wounded. » In July, the American Air Force dropped hundreds of tons of bombs and repeatedly machine-gunned the town. For instance, after the mass raid on Wonsan on July 13, the rice warehouses caught fire. After the raid the inhabitants of the town gathered at the burning warehouse and dragged the rice away in an attempt to save it from the fire. k Two American fighters then appeared over the town, machine gunned the crowd, and then re- turned again several times and continued to machine-gun the fleeing inhabitants. As a result of the air raids, a large part of the town of Wonsan was completely destroyed, includ- ing several schools, five hospitals, and several cultural ‘institutions and cinemas. More than 4,000 per- sons were killed and injured. During repeated air raids on the town of Nampkho, American planes dropped a large number of bombs on residential districts and fired on them with cannons and mach- ine guns. Some 400 persons were killed and wounded as a result of these raids on Nampkho; more than 500 dwelling houses, public and cultural buildings were des- troyed. The town of Chynnam was sub- jected to barbarous bombing. As a result of the American Air Force raids on Chynnam on July 30 and August 2 and 3, the town was com- pletely destroyed. The American Air Force is sys- tematically bombing and machine gunning the town of Seoul, caus- ing great damage to the residen- tial areas, The number of casual- ties among the population of Seoul is about 7,000. A large number of small towns and villages of South and North Korea, containing no military tar- gets or industrial undertakings of any kind, have frequently been subjected {to brutal bombing by American aircraft and many of them have been entirely or almost entirely destroyed. For example, the district capital Vondzhyu, in South Kanvon Province, has been destroyed; the village of Denpkho, Kengi Province; the town of Kon- chon, South Kanvon Province; the town of Phkentkhok, Kengi Pro- vince; and the village of Yankak, south P’Yongyang. There are numerous instances of American airplanes firing on pas- senger trains and steamers. For example, on July 3, four Ameri- can aircraft shot peasants of the village of Ponsan, Khuankhe Pro- vince, who were working in the fields; as a result of the firing 15 persons were killed and 8 wound- ed. On'July 4 six American aircraft four times machine-gunned pea- sants of Munari village, South P’- Yongyang province, who were en- gaged in weeding the fields; as a result 15 peasants were killed, one of them killed a peasant woman with her infant who was giving it the breast among the rice pad- dies. : n s On July 3 at Sookho Station an American plane shot at a mail train travelling between P’Yong- yang and Nadin; the conductor and several passengers were seriously wounded. On July 4, American aircraft several times shot at a passenger steamer travelling from Nampkho to Khvankhe, as a re- sult of which 33 passengers were killed or injured. On July 5, American planes ma- chine-gunned women who were washing clothes in the river Sen_ chengan, near Khamkhyn, and children who were bathing in the river; as a result of the firing 12 persons were killed and 14 injured. Having set itself the task of destroying Korean industry and of creating a disastrous: situation for the Korean people, the Am- erican Air Force is Systematic concerns connection what- ever with war toltustes. ~ During an attack on Pyon gyan for example, a starch factory, rd soya bean mills, a garment fac. torya a hosiery factory, a rubber footwear factory and a grain mill were destroyed. During raids on Nampkho, an edible oil factory was destroyed. A factory for the production of agricultural fertili- zers was destroyed in Nampkho and an agricultural fertilizer com- bine in Khynnam, on whose oper- ations the productivity of Korean agriculture largely depends. A large number of communal dining rooms, shops and other undertak- ings have been damaged or des- troyed, : All these crimes represent police action carried out in the name of the United Nations. The commu- niques issued by MacArthur’s head- quarters daily report the dropping of hundreds of tons of bombs on Korean towns and villages, and re- presents all this with cannibalistic cynicism as a great boon for the Korean people. Like honest people all over the world, the Korean people is incen- sed at the barbaric acts of the American interventionists in Kor- ea. In bringing the above facts to the knowledge of the Security Council, the government of the Korean Democratic People’s Re- public has already indicated its po- sition in a statement Sent by it to the Secretary-General of the Un- ited Nations on June 28, 1950, en- ters a categorical protest and de- mands that urgent steps be aken to stop the above mentioned mon- strous crimes which are béing com- mitted. The Government of the Korean People’s Democratic Republic considers that, in the event of - the Security Council refusing to take steps to stop the criminal acts of United States interven- tionists in Korea, the responsibi- lity for these criminal deeds will fall not only on the United States interventionists but also on the States members of the Security Council who have prevented those steps being taken. TED HARRIS Painters’ and Paperhangers’ Supplies Sunworthy Wallpaper half price Was 28¢ — Now i4c a roll 757 EB. HASTINGS HA, 2973 —e Brother’s Bakery Specializing in Sweet and Sour Rye Breads 342 E. HASTINGS ST. PA. 8419 ® MILO CAFE “We Specialize in ‘ » Ukrainian F 242 E. Hastings St, PA. 3037 Vancouver 811 E. HASTINGS ST. aa Pe PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 18, 1950 — PAGE &