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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, October 17, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes october 6 captured americans slain by foe in North atrocity described by survivor with forces in North 14 delayed korean red troops murdered six and wounded two others Friday in what was believed to be the first atrocity Case against americans since the 38th parallel was a survivor capt John said he was one of 11 prisoners the reds captured in an ambush near West of he said two North koreans guarded them for several hours in a when a Battle broke out on the Road the guards turned their rifles on the Ameri then clubbed them until they Becj Jeveda All were Brewer escaped firing was terrific Brewer said he was captured Fri Day afternoon on a Road Over which 1st Cav units had passed the Day escaping one group of he drove three Miles South and ran into an the firing was he several shots hit my my first thought was to run through the but several soldiers in a ditch beside the Road youll never make Captain there is enemy on the Road ahead with burp Brewer then nil the ditch and organized the 10 americans there putting out flank guards and direct ing fire at the in about 20 however they closed in on he we were surrounded by 35 to 40 of they took everything we including i then took us to a Taylor hails new 6th regt 16 tac tical troops in who Are to form the nucleus of the reactivated 6th inf regt were congratulated on their assignment to the new organization today by maj Gen Maxwell Berlin organization of the regiment be Gan although no outward changes in the Structure of the Ber Lin Garrison have been affected As officials units now Here which will be absorbed into the 6th inf Are the 3d 16th inf and the 16ih co Stab so Taylor told the new outfit it has been truly said that if the key to Europe today is the key to Germany is no place in the world today is so alive with a sense of history in the the task ahead of is a proud and challenging one to rep resent in this City the finest prod Vii of american i have every Confidence that you will ably discharge that response patrol races to save pcs continued from Page i tary adviser to the South korean 3d hurriedly arranged for South korean troops to try to res Cue the american three truck loads of led by maj Malcolm of senior adviser to the South korean 26th set off along the railway late j went to the scene of the Yong Hung atrocity yesterday with pm Smith and col Lee commander of the South korean 26th More than 400 of the South koreans had been slaughtered with rifles and bayonets in an Apple Orchard on the Southern Edge of this 28 Miles North of the two survivors told us North korean guards forced the prisoners to line up in files of each Man behind the first clasped his arms around the Waist of the Man in front of burned alive in some s single Bullet from the enemy russian rifles penetrated All four As fast As they the South koreans were pushed into shallow trenches and doused with gasoline and set some were burned by the time we Only stacks of charred bodies horribly bloated and discoloured from exposure to the stir on top of one Trench was an empty 50 gallon gasoline the other 100 South korean too ill or lame to walk to their were shot and Bayo need As they Lay in a schoolhouse prison in five Miles South of the South korean 3d and capital dive forced All male residents of Kowan to go through the school House yesterday afternoon to View the victims of their communist  in games aftermath 16 Brit ish Wellington bombers collided Over an Raf Field yesterday while returning from Britain biggest postwar air games killing eight and seriously injuring two the which occurred near on England East was the third in less than 24 it brought to at least 14 the num Ber of men killed during the exercises dubbed exercise former officer at Hanato killed in Korea fighting 16 capt Charles former s2 and s3 of the Hanau was killed in action while serving with the 2d inf div in according to word received by friends Day was promoted to the rank of Captain on Board the ship which took him to he served in in dec for 42 leaving for the last june drive Ivear Pyongyang four in columns Are driving on the South korean 1st div drove to the area of Only 33 Miles Southeast of the red the South korean capita div advanced to within five mites of 60 Miles North of won san on the East the 24th div struck up the West coast toward map continued from Page 1 left Wing of the unit struck up the West coast toward Haejun 63 Miles due South of was the eighth plus he British Commonwealth to join the push a report from Seoul said the 1st Cav breaking out of last of the mountains on the Road to raced 14 Miles nto 42 Miles South of the the division had charged through name Honjo and was Mak no a beeline northward for the out of the worst of the rugged it was in a position to match the Speed of the South koreans in the race for the the fourth in column spearing or Pyongyang was made up of South korean capital and 3d div it was striking due West from the won san area through 67 Miles East of Pyong rians in Seoul As plans for the final Victory Over the North koreans shaped High officials of the South korean government in Seoul said that plans were being pushed to appoint local and provincial officials in North korean towns Loyal to the Republican government they said admin istra tors were being picked care fully from among North koreans who fled South ahead of the com whether the plans were in open Defiance of the in interim com Mission on Korea remained to be United press correspondent Wil Liam reporting the Cap ital dive plunge through rain and mud to the environs of Ham Hung with its twin City of anchors one of the richest Industrial areas in All put the divisions leading regiment within 14 Miles of the 40th almost 200 Miles North of the old Border Between North and South heavy rain in the East coast Region both sunday and yesterday held Down air a 5th air Force communique said Korea based planes flew Only 3 sorties in close support of ground airmen claimed to have killed or wounded 150 communists in planes destroyed 21 red locomotives and 39 Supply carts yesterday in attacks on Supply Vandenberg lands in dec continued from Page 1 gun Salute As he mounted the re viewing stand with it Gen Manton Usa eur maj Gen William air Force Deputy chief of staff rear adm John commander of naval forces in Europe maj Gen Daniel chief of Neucom Samuel director of the office of political Hico Brig Gen Robert director of Neucom and Brig Gen Edward Deputy chief of staff for the joint army and air Force re View was commanded by maj Gor Don of the 63d he tank 1st inf the review included the Neucom Honor guard 557th inf plat under the command of 1st it Alford Dempsey the 33d and 427th army bands led by two Harry Hollowell and an air Force detachment from the 517th air police of the naval forces in Germany furnished one of the color reds claim of in soviet zone accused German spy says soviets sought paralysis drug9 by Omer Anderson staff correspondent 1ij the russians expressed interest in getting information on a paralysis producing drug which supposedly was being developed under a witness at the trial of two germans accused of spying for the russians testified before a Hico court Hildegard Kuhnen said she and Hermann one of the were questioned about the paralysis drug by a capt of the soviet secret serv Pavlov said the russians understood it was being produced by not Cash although co Mana purportedly induced miss Kuhner to join him in the espionage venture by Assur ing her he had documents Worth to peddle to the she testified that instead of Cash they received eight Days in the the russians paid Cosmann less than 100 miss Kuhnen and Cosmann were released the russians caution ing each to avoid the miss Kuhnen testified that gun ther a former employee of the Allied tripartite Security Board at who already furnished the plans and maps of the Griesheim ordnance depot and other classified data which Cosmann turned Over to the offered to sell names of alleged agents working in the soviet zone at the rate of to Marks per miss Kuhnen said that during their confinement in she and Cosmann passed notes to each other through a crack in the Wall separating their some 20 of the notes were introduced into some of them of a romantic in one for miss Kuhnen wrote to Cosmann my dear i am As god created with All my but still not so miss Kuhnen testified Cosmann told her he owned two one a shoe the other a Wood but it be was almost continued from pole 1 fearful of police Terr to against East germans who attempted to the capitulation was Complete among those who obeyed nist orders to cast open unmarked ballots on which appeared Only us red parliamentary list were thous ands of protestant pastors and Catholic priests and like automatons the East Ger Man masses paraded past the elec Tion dropping in the unfolded scraps of paper which Seal their political today the East German govern ment announced it had been con firmed in Power by vote against is invalid and Tion our people have shown unanimity and determination never be fore witnessed in the Sai communist Interior minister Kail Steinhoff in announcing the to Tali he reported that per cent a All enfranchised East germans ii years of age and older went to the of these cast invalid Only ballots Wera against the National i Twat announced figures called fraud anticommunist charged in mediately that the East German regimes figures were a Patent fraud hiding the of More than German voters they pointed out that in a pre Vious election of a Peoples con Gress the communists had an eligible voters in the soviet in the ministry of Interior reported Only eligible the German democratic Republic had never been put to a pop ular vote until for peace and the five year was the Only statement appearing on the ballot after the single it of 70 per cent comm no place for no there was no place on the paper to Mark yes or most polling stations lacked even a curtained Booth or a Pencil for citizens use the communists mobilized 000 free German youth Fuji and Young pioneers aged 6 to is to Lead their German elders with flags and bands to the ballot crying out continually for Frei open voting for sources close to the East German government said they were Igno rant As yet whether the vote would in the user granting t separate peace and withdrawing itt occupation forces next Reuter Brand election in East comedy1 16 maj Gea Berlin today termed tit i soviet zone election j West Berlin mayor Ernst Reuter said we pity our Brethren in tit Eastern zone for having been forced to participate in this election the East Berlin press hailed the vote As the Victory of democracy in and carried picture of the populace marching to polls behind banners and use Koch trial scheduled for 27 in Augsburg 16 of use Koch on charges of ing the brutal treatment murder of concentration amp mates was set today for before a German jury in Augsburg the trial was set by the ministry of v a charge Sheet of 140 pages accusing her of repeated cruelties w the inmates under her command was delivered to her so july  
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