The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 11, 1953, Page 3

The predecessor of Uncle Sam asthe symbolical representative of the American was Brother Jona- than, dating from the Revolution, | Wednesday, March 11, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN } EASONS FOR PRISON CAMP RIOTING PROBED BY A. P. iditor’s Note—John Randolph, | ‘an Associated Press corr | Pondent in Korea, has made a tour | | Maid’s Night Out By RAYMER the beauty who pursues eludes. Popular songs form the basic continuity of the music, among yet} magnified by the mental pressure; mentally and still wage war as of long confinement? {Red soldiers at Saturday’s riots on the islet of| 2. Die-hard Communist | “They seé themselves as Red jmade at random intervals at night. cut off behind enemy }Day and night, the strictest isola- “ELLA Y YO” (which means, ef Communist isoner of war camps to see why violence per- sists long after the United Nations Command thought it had been brought under control. This is the first of a series of three stories ; Presenting his observations after nine days among the camps. By JOHN RANDOLPH KOJE ISLAND, Korea (#—Why do Communist captives still riot in bloody battles on the prison islands of South Korea? Is it the result of any mistreat- ment or brutality by the United Nations Command—as the bitter | Red radio ‘at Peiping claims again and again? Is it the work of trig- ger-happy guards supplied by the U..S. and Republic of Korea Armies? Or is it some peculiar madness | inside the prisoners themselves— some innate Communist frenzy fu- eled by unreasonable hatred and Your Child WILL LIKE THIS IEW COUGH HELP For coughs and acute bronchitis due to colds can now = Creomulsion epecial lly prepared for Children in anew pink and Lovopl crys and be sure: (1) Your will like it. (2) It coniains only safe, proven 9) It contains no narcotics to dis- turb nature's processes. 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There is a possibility that Reds had gained conirol of their | messages of instru s still reach huge, 5,000-man compounds onjsome of the Red. compounds by Koje Island and had seized the | means of Communist espionage camp commander, Brig. Gen. | agents. Francis T. Dodd. | 4. Many Reds, most of them But Dodd’s rescue and the break- | confined for more than two years, up of the Reds into smailer, more /are going “stir crazy’ and would Id ;Manageable compounds has not | commit acts of violence under any ended even the major violence—} circumstances. as many. hoped and expected it| “The biggest reason is that these would do. ‘prisoners are not prisoners at all Last October, well after the {in their own minds.” explains Col breakup, more than 50 Chinese | H. L. Taylor of Arlington, Va. As Communists were killed in a riot |Koje camp commander Taylor has in their new camp on Cheju Is-| general supervision ever three sub- land, far off Korea’s southwest |camps at Chogu, Pongam and Yon- coast. Only last January. nearly | cho. 90 North Korean Reds met a like| As Communists, they must |tion is maintained to keep down | fighting at the risk of their to do us all the damage they can—to tie down cur troops, try to shake our nerve, and try to make us look bad in the eyes of the world,” To combat this Red strategy, the men who run the camps try every remedy they know. Com- pounds are kept small enough to handle—not more than 500 men each. A strict eye is kept for trou- ble brewing, and too ambitious | compound leaders are pulled out and isolated whenever they can be located. Informers are planted in danger- ous compounds whenever possible, and two American soldiers are kept in each one during the day- jlight hours, Sharp inspections are fate on the islet of Pongam. In between have been more than a score or more of other “inci- dents” that include murderous at- tacks on Allied guards, shooting | of mutinous single prisoners, and | frequent compound “suicides” that | look suspiciously like Communist lynchings. | What are the reasons for this un- | ending, bloody violence so com: pletely different from America’s World War II experience with Ger- | _ man, Italian and Japanese prison- | ers of war? | To get these answers and others | like them I made a nine-day tour of U. N. prison camps in South | Korea—traveling nearly 1,500 miles | by air, train, boat and jeep, and trudging many other miles afoot. I talked to high-ranking com-} manders and to buck private com- pound commanders, watched the | prisoners at work, play and rest, and visited their compounds and | workshops. I saw some prisoners so savagely anti-American they spat curses as we passed—and others so -friendly they serenaded us with a brass band. You cannot see everything in nine days, but I can say without | qualification that not once in any eamp did I see a single act of . N. brutality or mistreatment—| # not even minor “hazing.” On the | contrary, I saw many positive acts of genuine kindness and friendli- ness by Allied troops. It is true that there always was a steady display of Allied weapons, and the continual presence of over- whelming military force. But as / long as the individual prisoner be- | haved himself, he got far more | consideration from his guards, both American and South Korean, than any American rookie gets from his sergeant at recruit camp. As for prisoners’ food, clothing, shelter and medical care, it was beyond reproach. To explain the sudden bloody outbreaks that have haunted the Prisoner of War Command for more than a year, the American officers and men give these general | Teasons: } 1. Prisoners in the Communist camps have never “surrendered” Income Tax Cut To House For Vote Soon By WILLIAM F. 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If there is a threat of riot, joverwhelming force is displayed to eae any Red attack in ad- vance—and tear gas or et gas grenades always at hi to stop it mercifully if it begins. But if all else fails, the orders to the Allied soldiers are simple, di- rect and inevitable: “If a prisoner attacks United Na. tions personnel, the guard will |shoot the prisoner.” Pakistan Riots Lead To Arrests | LAHORE, Pakistan — Riots | MOTHER OF NINE AT 32—Mrs. Calvin Lee Peters, 32, of Mi- ami, is the mother of nine children. of twins ten and a half months apart, Mrs. Peters is shown with the twins, left to right, Paulette Kay and Paul Herbert, 14 months, and George Frederick and Carl Diego, four months. 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