~ With the exception, of those French language papers in Quebec opposing Canadian involvement in Korea (Vancouver papers have sup- pressed this significant fact), the daily press has become a war press. Fisheries Minister R. W. Mayhew, in an interview with the Vancouver Daily Province this week, emphasized that “we are not at war.” to all intents and purposes the Vancouver dailies are at war. American defeats are admitted because they cannot be concealed, and also because they serve a purpose in whipping up war hysteria and justi- fying war preparations. Atrocity stories and pictures (which, can easily _ be faked) are published to sway public opinion. But the Korean story_ But — the statements made by Americans taken prisoner by the Korean People’s Democratic Army; the story of American bombing raids on Korean towns — as given below — is kept from readers by a daily press which hides from English-speaking Canadians the anti-war senti- ments of French-speaking Canadians. All the stories on this page are available to Vancouver dailies through the New China (Sinhua) News Agency, whose correspondents at the front with the Korean People’s Democratic Army are beyond the reach of General MacArthur’s “self- imposed” censorship. U.S. prisoners urge’ end to intervention, state ‘treated well’ A group of 114 Americans ta have broadcast an appeal to the U.S. shooting and bombing the Kor States, and leave Korea immed ongyang radio by Lieut. Her PHYONGYANG ken prisoner by the Korean People’s Democratic Army government and its armed forces in Korea “to stop eans who never have done any injustice towards the United ” iately bert The broadcast was made on July 14 over the Phy- E. Marlatt of the 34th Regiment of the 24th Division Lt, Marlatt with Serg. F. A. Roy, was elected by the 114 POW’s to make the appeal for an end to the U.S. intervention in Korea. “Since our capture, we have been treated humanely,” Lt. Marlatt declared in his proadcast. “We were sent to Korea with the ex- planation that we were to aid the supposedly freedom-loving South Koreans to defend their republic and restore peace and order.” But, he said; they watched South Kor- ean troops run away by the thou- sand,” He continued: “South Korean ci- vilians have openly demonstrated their desire to unite with the Nor- thern Korean people in’ forming a unified country. “In view of the obvious. desires of the Korean people, we prisoners of war feel that the Korean people should be permitted to finish their own civil war and’ resolve their internal problems. If there were no American intervention, the would have brought the civil wa to an end already. American in- tervention has resulted in mass destruction of life and property in this undeclared war. Thousands of Korean men, women and children have been made homeless. And great property damage has resul- ted from air raids by the Ameri- can air corps. Untold American lives have been sacrificed, “We believe that further inter- vention in this civil war can only result in greater waste of human . life and property and will achieve nothing but the certainty of huge costs to support an occupation army large enough to rule’an un- willing people. It can only en- PUM WO COOOL eh Gh Lo oo War Crimes Committee set up by Koreans PHYONGYANG Establishment of a committee, for investigating crimes perpe- trated against the Korean people by U.S. imperialism and Syng- man Rhee since the outbreak of war was decided at a meeting ‘of the central standing commit- tee of the United Democratic Fatherland Front of Korea on July 14, ‘ Huh Hin, chairman of the Korean Supreme People’s Assem- bly, is chairman and Li Yeng, vice chairman of the Korean Sup- reme People’s Assembly, and Bak Cheng Ai, president of the Kor- ean. Democratic Women’s Union, are vice chairmen, Among the crimes to be inves-— tigated are the murder of 200 political prisoners in Seoul on the eve of the city’s fall, and the killing jof more than 1,000 in Suwun, UMC YA hance the hatred of the Koreans against the Amerycans, while the Koreans will certainly achieve their national unity.” The statement is signed by each of the 114 men, identifying them- selves as members of the 21st, 22nd, 24th and 34th regiments of)- the 24th Division which bore the brunt of the fighting during the first weeks of intervention. In- cluded are the names of four army officers, Major John Joseph Dunn HIT BY TORPEDO BOATS Coast, The torpedo boats of the cruisers despite intensive three U.S. ships, the cruiser that ~ American cruiser A vivid account of the five-hour naval batt! coast on July 5, in which four Korean torpedo boats engaged two attacked, maneuvering to within 1000 feet but a second torpedo had been hit and the Captain Ri Wan Kun, sunk _ PYONGYANG le off the Korean and sank one cruiser with no Korean press by a special Telegraph Agency. appeared in the daily press.) reported by a Korean command of Kim ercing its hull. _ eaten ec a es vier wvarships were pouring hot churning up huge columns of But none of the shells reached Kun's boat washed in to within which finally sank the cruiser. anda First Lieut. Herbert E. Mar- latt of the 34th regiment, Capt. Ambrose H. Nugent of the 22nd regiment and Second Lieut. John- sen Cox of the 21st Regiment, The statement was also signed by ist Lieut. Donald S. Sirman of the 5th Air Force. “In addition to the joint state- ment, a number of prisoners have made individual appeals over the Phyongyang radio, In one of these, First Lieut. Sir- man stated: “All Koreans hate American troops, While wherever the troops of the People’s Army enter, they enthusiastically welcome them. Every honest American who has seen the real situation in Korea will have to admit that the abso- lute majority. of the South .and North Koreans back the Korean People’s Republic, and the People’s Army enjoys the positive support of the entire people of Korea. He was supported by Sgt. Merlin J. Hamilton of the 34th regiment, who in another broadcast said that “we prisoners of war enjoy most humane treatment, perhaps too generous for the soldiers of an in- vading army,” and declared: “The Korea people have risen as one man to drive out American troops, Who have Made themselves utterly hated because of this arm- ed intervention.” South Koreans joining North PYONGYANG More than 100 high officials of Syngman Rhee’s puppet regime and members of his South Korean “parliament have registered with the People’s Committee in this city and pledged their support to the Korean People’s Democratic Re- public. ‘ Among them is one former South Korean cabinet minister, Kim Hye Suk, former minister of the inter- ior. Some, like Choa Hong, former member of the South Korean “par- liament,’ have spoken over the |radio, admitting their part in sup- pressing strikes, persecuting pro- gressive organizations and jailing and killing patriots; and undertak- ing to justify the leniency of the People’s government by their future actions, \ Another who has pledged his sup- port to the People’s government is Kim Kyu Sik, former chairman of the “legislative council” in South Korea during the American occu- pation and chairman of the Na- tional Self-Determination . Associa- Beds fou ocean cities Here a U.S. bomber, still bearing its war-time insignia, is being prepared for action in Korea. American bombing of Korean cities has already killed and thousands of civilians. 125 WERE CHILDREN —’ victims of their will to resist. Nearing Phyongyang, guards stopped my car because the city was being bombed, and from a distance I watched great towers of smoke arise -and heard the deton- ations of heavy bombs. The planes were bombing from a great height, above thick cloud, and in such wea- ther they could not aim accurate- ly on’ targets. Even after they had gone, con- tinued detonations indicated they were using delayed action bombs to increase civilian casualties. In the heaviest of three raids on Wunsan during the first two weeks of July, that-of July 13, B-29’s ap- peared over the city in perfect wea- ther. For three hours in the morn- ing they bombed at will, and be- hind them came planes firing can- nons and rockets. More than 500 heavy bombs were dropped. -The city’s large areas of single- floored houses were the target, and no hypocrisy about the United Na- tions or the American “way of life” can deny it. I saw the huge craters left by the heavy bombs and, in the wrecked homes, the marks of cannon shells and rock- Hits were scored on the Red Cross hospital, the municipal hos- pital, a sanatorium, in which 170 were killed on the biggest girls’ school, in the middle of a residen- tial quarter, and on a boys’ school ynear the beach. In one congested workers’ quar- ter an acre of shackle houses had been laid level by a giant bomb in the raid on the 18th. Men tion in Korea. and women wandered listlessly PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 3, 1950—PAGE 3 - Korean civilians main bombing American planes.are bombing the homes of the Korean | people in what can only be a calculated effort to destroy I am writing this on the road back to Phyongyang after visiting Wunsan, a city of some 140.000 people, on the east coast of North Korea, PHYONGYANG ~ over it, poking among the rubble of their homes for bits of property. _ Over it still hung that smell of bombardment and dust which is the same in any country. One old man sat — as he had — sat for a week — on: the two or three foundation stones of his house. In front of him were three books, an umbrella and a piece of bloody cloth: He never turned his head or moved his eyes from — those relics which were all that. remained of his whole family of six people, caught in the full blast of the great bomb. aS These raids could have had no — other purpose than smashing the will to resist of the Korean people. — They will fail, as they failed in Britain in the Second World War. A worker, San Wunchu, whose > wife and two children were killed while he was at work, told me: “They are dead and I cannot call them back.’ If I die it is little now. But I would give my last drop of | blood to take revenge and drive these murdering dogs from our country. They tell me my place — in the fight is in production and I will work my fingers to the bone to produce more for the army. TED HARRIS Painters’ and Paperhangers’ Supplie Sun .