‘Chinese know what they're fighting for -

but

This dispatch, sent
‘out by New China News
Agency, was filed from
North Korea by a cor-
respondent attached to
the Chinese people’s
volunteer forces.
SOMEWHERE IN N. KOREA

like
an Ameri-

“J doubt if troops ours
could win any war,’
can artillery captain told me in
this prisoner of war camp near
Changchin Reservoir. Like most
of the Americans I have talked
to here, Captain Afrey frankly
expressed his amazement at the
tremendous difference in the mo-
rale of the two sides fighting in

we don’t,

a difference, he said,
who has been any-
front can

Korea —
that “anyone
where near the
up at a glance.”

size

When I asked for his explana-
tion, - Arrey replied: “Tt’s clear
the Chinese know what they are
fighting for. That’s why they
don’t seem to be afraid of any
demned thing we can throw at
them. But we fighting be-
esuse those are our orders. We
shoot because we want to save
our skins.

are

“But most of our guys — well,
they just don’t know what the
seore is. So as soon aS we meet
up with any ‘kind of setback
or reverse, we feel that the bot-
tom has dropped out of every-
thing. Then we just concentrate

on finding some way to stay alive |

for another 24 hours.

Brif
Naz
aga

sh adopt
measures
nst Malaya

LONDON
New fascist-like measures em-
ployed in Malaya by British colo-
nial authorities to suppress the

People’s movement for liberation
include the use of two favorite
devices of the Nazis — collective
punishment and ruthless conscrip-
tion of labour.

Use of the new measures which |

have been generally suppressed
by the British préss on the ad-
vice of the Colonial office, follows
collapse of the British campaign
to wipe out the People’s Libera-
tion Army. In _ fact, . recent
months have seen a steady streng-
thening of. this army.

Outlined in.a speech made on

December 15 by Sir Henry Gur-|

ney, Governor of Malaya, at Ku-
ala Lumpur, the new fascist “poli-
Cies have already been carried
out, but up to the time of Gur-
ney’s speech had not been offi-
cially admitted by the British.

According to Singapore corres-
pondent Tillman Durdin, writing
in the New York Times of De-
cember 17, Gurney outlined in his
speech that “when individuals en-
gaged in Communist terrorism
are found in a village or urban
group the entire group will be
held responsible and become lia-
ble. to harsh penalties.”

This new poliey of what Dur-

din calls “official resort to re-
prisals . for the protection of
the insurgents,” is, he explains,

necessary because the Malayan
people “shelter and conceal” their
liberation fighters.

The new plans also provide;
for enormous rewards for the
capture of liberation fighters,
ranging as high as 20,000 U.S.
dollars for one individual. These
sums are a clear indication both
of the desperation of the British
‘authorities and of the fact that
they depend on traitors and ag-
ents ‘to oppose the liberation
leaders. :

-The 140,000 troops and armed
police already in service in Ma-
laya ‘are,to be augmented this
year by.an additional two batta-
Mons...

It is: also planned to “resettle”
over 200,000 Chinese “squatters”
during the year.

This means that the workers
and ‘peasants without legal claim
to the land they occupy will be
Placed in concentration camps to
prevent their aiding the liberation
fighters. Already 70,000 have been
placed in camps under appalling
conditions. ~

Yanks leave country a waste

I surrendered —
guys you

“That’s why
and why most of’ the
have got here gave up as soon
looked like they were in

a jam,”

as it

This .statement is borne out
by the steadily growing numbers
of American POW’s who turn up
at this camp each day. The camp
already holds several hundreds of
captured Americans largely from
the 31st and 32nd Regiments of
the U.S. 7th Infantry Division
which was virtually wiped out
in the Changchin-Hamhung area.

Those who have been wounded
get daily medical attention and
the prisoners are getting as good

if not better food than the Chin-,

ese volunteers.
surrounded by anti-aircraft bat-
teries manned by the Chinese vo-
lunteers to protect

The camp is also)

it from the,

‘ declares American POW

attacks of American bombers.

The American soldiers I talked

Another artillery officer, Cap- 10 were bosses ae 6 agreed on
tain Speer of the 57th Artillery | one point”— that what they fear-
Battalion, told me that he had’ ed above everything else was night
fought in both world wars but| stiacks and encirclement tactics.
that he had never come up against |
such ..a<-‘tough” “enemy as the| Private Fred Lane of the 31st
Chinese volunteers. | Regiment told me: “When you

“Our planes and guns have | hear those little bugles blowing
tremendous firepower,” he re- |in the dead of the night, you
marked, “and I always thought | know there is not a thing on
nothing could survive one of abs OD) i id ce et

t t run, and -hope for
our all-out barrages. Yet the |ine best. In the day time; we

Chinese would stand up to our

know there is a good chance our

heaviest bombardments and even planes will come along. and pry
launch _immediate counter-at- | 44> ont of the fire we. are in. But
tacks. with their machine gums | ,+ night — not a prayer. Our six
and hand grenades. If I had force is not worth a ‘darn then.”
not seen it myself time and
again, I would not have believ- A surprisingly tL ae erarnises of
ed it possible — I will hand | men, when asked how: they were
it to you Chinese — you can jcaptured,': replied like:. Private
Boyd:: “In my sleeping: bag.”

sure fight!”

In their long retreat from the Chinese border, Yankee troops
have blown up or burned bridges, plants, docks and whatever build-

ings U.S.

planes have left standing, reducing in utter ruin the

country to which they were to bring ‘democracy.’

Antagonism between
MacArthur, Generals

over policy revealed

General Walton H. Walker,

WASHINGTON

late commander

Eight Army in Korea, who was killed in a jeep accident last
thonth, was General Douglas MacArthur’s main adversary in

the jockeying for top post in the Korean war.

been raging for some time and
it was one of the tasks of US.
Army, Chief of Staff, General J.
Lawton Collins, during his recent
visit to Japan and Korea, to at-

tempt to straighten things out
and tell the generals concerned
of Washington's apprehension

over the enmity between them as
well as ‘between MacArthur and
his Intelligence Chief, General
Charles A. Willoughby. -

The bitterness between the gen-
erals was allowed to fester for
some time, but official action be-
came necessary when Washing-
ton’s Defence Ministry (the Pen-
tagon) received a request from
General Walker that he be given
orders directly from Washirgton
and not from MacArthur's staff
in Tokyo.

Walker’s request was accompa-
nied by numerous reports to Pre-
sident Harry §S. Truman from
responsible American command-
ers in Japan and Korea who have
been accusing MacArthur of

This rivalry. had

shortsightedness both in running
Japan and in conducting military
operations in Korea.

The reports blamed MacArthur
directly for the heavy American
sacrifices in the Korean war and
they agreed with General Walker
that by his hatred of and ‘cruelty
towards the Asian peoples, Mac-
Arthur had alienated not only
the Koreans but also the Japan-
CBeIE TS ;

One of the most frequently-
repeated complaints against Mac-
Arthur is that, in the course of
his rule in Japan, MacArthur has
acquired big blocks of shares in
the Japanese Nippon Yusen Kai-
sha and Yamashita shipbuilding
companies, the Nippon Sekiyo Oil

Company, Sumitomo Aluminum
Company and others, :
Apart from that, MacArthur

has ‘received. “courtesy presents”
and objects of art to the value of
more than 100 million dollars
from Japanese industrial, military
and political circles.

of the-U5.

——~~

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