~ First eye-witness report Pyongyang terror raid leaves 10,000 civilian casualties Martyred Pyongyang, devastated by the horror raids of the U.S. Air Force in Korea, has been Visited by Alan Winnington, first correspondent to enter the city since the latest raid. After a moving description of the atrocities inflicted on the civilian population, Winnington says: “What the Americans achieved here—and the British who dabbled in this monstrous orgy just enough to dirty their hands—is more hatred in the ‘Far East, still more intense hatred in Korea. “Nearly 10,000 people can be named who were killed, maimed, burned in the American’s latest Mass murder. But the Americans cannot name one road, rail section, bridge, war factory or military installation put out of action. “It is time to debunk the American pretence that such madness can bring peace nearer. It Can only make any settlement more difficult. And that is probably the real purpose.” From ALAN WINNINGTON PYONGYANG Manoeuvring through rushing Streams of traffic, our jeep cross- ed the Taedong River as usual in- _ to Pyongyang. . Workmen were on their way ‘to their underground factories deep in solid rock, Pyongyang has been so severely bombed for years that it is diffi- cult to tell the old bombing from the new, Hundreds of people Could be seen in the dawn light Searching, turning over rubble, looking for their little possessions Or their dead, “Excellent results were report- ed,” said the Americans after bombing, napalming, , rocketting and strafing the Pyongyang re- 8l0n for a total of 16 hours. Days later, the toll of those re- Sults was: killed in daytime raid, 1,000; killed in night raid, 2,000; Missing in debris, 780; injured, Over 4,000, Total civilian casualties will Certainly exceed 10,000. The American planes made no attempt to aim for any target. For hour after hour they flew straight Mto the city area, dumped their °Mmbs without circling and flew Ome, “Excellent results” as can be Seen from a typical hospital re- Port where they took 80 casualties ™M that day——31 women, 21 child- Ten younger than 16 years, 22 8dult male civilians and six sol- diers, 5 ; About 10,000 gallons of na- Palm were sprinkled all over the city. (Did Britain’s Foreign Minister Anthony Eden say it Was only used against troops?) H * * * Mrs, Cho Byong An is 25 years t Her face and neck and Yeasts had been burned by sticky Detrol_napalm. Her left nostril Was charred to a black cinder. Her little son was wounded. rs. Han Byong Ok prays that Bi husband is a casualty in an- er hospital — her only hope et he is alive for she has not oa n him since that-raid. He stay- ried home to eat his supper lle she took the children to a elter, When 12 sticks of bombs fell oe She took the youngest child sae Went to persuade her husband all ake shelter, Napalm got her Over the face. ete cried for help and vaguely Ss ae some old man helping hist Trough an inferno of bombs, > Smoke and the stink of blaz- § Napalm to hospital. Ages © lay there swathed in band- busba Crazy with anxiety about » 2d and children, suckling its Child who would never see | Mother's face again but only British plan trade contracts with China LONDON The first ships have now been chartered to carry British goods to People’s Chinaj in the trade re- sulting from last April’s Interna- tional Economic Conference in Moscow. A member of the International Traders’ Association, the non-pro- fit-making company set up in Lon- don to watch over the carrying out of the East-West trade agree- ments reported this week that British businessmen have been commuting by air between London and Berlin for.conferences with representatives of the Chinese government’s Export-Import Cor- poration, ; , Already contracts for trade totalling £2,250,000 (approxi- mately $6,750,000) have been signed, and another $12 million worth are pending, The contracts concluded include orders from the Chinese People’s Republic for $1,800,000. of wool tops and woollen and worsted cloths on which Yorkshire firms are now busy. : Chinese produce which Britain firms are getting under the final contracts includes bristles, eggs and soya beans. the beans for re- export to overseas markets. Other East-West trade deals for Britain, arising from the Moscow conference, amount to some $90 million and will ensure employ- ment to tens of thousands of Brit- ish workers if they are allowed to proceed. Lord Boyd Orr recently return- ed from a two-day visit to the Chinese trade representatives in East Berlin. He was the chairman of the British delegation to the confer- ence in Moscow. a scarred mask. “Fxcellent results.” Gok’. x * n Air Force plan- ners concentrated on the residen- tial areas, specially on ee tiget Pyongyang where there is 7 city’s only big market, surround- ed, by thousands of homes labor- iously puilt out of the rubble of former homes. But they did not neglect the surrounding villages. For fen miles or more around the city, nearly every village had two or three bombs flung at it in passing. If the Americans had been less concerned with terror against civilians—military bres- sure — they could have tried a little harder to hit some military targets. ; A few bomb craters in the roads were filled within two hours of the ending of the raid. The America Newspapers never missed an edition, the. postal services and communications operate. All the shops that were not bombed are open, and also many that were bombed. The Americans, fearful of the outery against their terror raids, have invented the nice round fig- ure of 1,000 miiltary targets hit \ that day and night — a lie big enough to get some currency. I challenge the American ‘Air Force to name, not 1,000 but just ten of. that 1,000. Judging from my quick visit on only a single route they cannot name even one military target. I stopped to speak to some peo- ple who were carrying out a body just recovered from the rubble. They were talking quietly, de- scribing how it happened. Bven the husband of the dead woman was calm. Then I asked their views on the Americans. I was startled by the reaction. , ’ Their eyes blazed with hatred and they became incoherent, try- ing to tell as fast as possible the fierceness of their fury and con- tempt. I looked among them for any sign of fear or desperation, but there was none. i Instead, all the casualties I spoke to told me of nameless heroes like that old man who res- cued Mrs, Han, braving the inces- sant screaming, the bombs and the splashing napalm to rescue others, © How often before have I seen such mass courage here and marvelled at it! Dean writes on People’s: pac < China | The Britain-China Friendship Association has just publish- ed a new pamphlet, I Appeal, by Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, recounting his impressions of People’s China. Here, the Dean is shown at a welcome arranged for him by the people of Lu-chuan-tsun village during his recent visit. Sachs,'Kotane jailed for defying Malanazis CAPETOWN Sam Kahn, Who was recently deprived of his seat in the South African parliament, under the Suppression of Communism Act, last week was found not guilty of contravening a notice served on him by Justice Minister Swart. The charge alleged that on June 26, Kahn attended a meeting of Capetown City Council, of which he is a member—which was not “a gathering of a bona fide re- ligion, recreational or social na- ture.” ; By doing so, the charge alleg- ed, he contravened the minister’s notice ‘prohibiting him from at- tending meetings for two years. Kahn has already been order- PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 1, 1952 — PAGE 3 ed by the government to resign his council seat. Earlier, in Johannesburg, Solo- mon Sachs, veteran trade union leader, and Moses Kotane, a lead- er of the African Nationa] Con- gress, were sentenced to hard la- bor under the government’s Sup- pression of Communism Act. Sachs, who was forced by the government to resign as general- secretary of the Garment Work- ers Union, was sentenced to six months, He was released on $700 bail, pending appeal. Kotane, active in the civil dis- obedience campaign against the Malan government’s racial su- premacy laws, was sentenced to four months and released on $42 bail, pending appeal. eli le ae