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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1953_________________ Reports Communists Tried To Cover Up Deaths THE MARION STAR, MARION. OHIO. PAGE 7 Noel Believes GVs Died in Red Camps g- v (Editor's note: This is the last story by AP photographer Frank Noel on his 32 months as a Communist prisoner in North Korea. Noel is receiving medical treatment in Tokyo before returning to the United States.) By FRANK NOEL As Told to Ofen dements TOKYO I received my camera in January 1952, the Chi- nese let me take pictures in lour of the six camps where non-Korean war prisoners were held. In my wandering around the camps I got a pretty fair idea of how many men were in each and I estimated there were between and men, mostly Ameri- cans, in the hands of the Reds. Another 3.000 died In the camps and are buried in the hills around Pyoktong and Chonchong, where most of the camps were located. That would account for up to of the non-Korean troops estimated to be missing today. The Chinese did not mark these camps for aerial identification dur- ing the first year of the war. When they did mark them they used the Chinese characters that I was told meant "peace" rather than a pris- oner camp. One day about three months ago I saw three wagon loads of about 60 boxes of it to the wagon- dug up and taken out of Camp 5 where Africans, British Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, Turks, French and Greek POWs were held. If a bomb had struck that camp accidentally the whole bunch would have been killed. The Reds tried to cover up tha great number of deaths among the Tie "Nationwide Dodge Dealers Contest Ends Sept. 5lk Only Weeks Lett: want to Mil ALL our UMd can by to offering you USED CAR THE RI SS4 N. Main Si. LEY MOTOR CO. Phono 2-1603 as many as 48 bodies in one day were seen being moved out of the trying to force Allied doctors to say the men died of syphilis contracted before they were captured. None of the doctors would go for it and a good many of them did time in the hole as a result. We were held right near the border of Manchuria and a Chinese leader told me one if the Allies ever tried to liberate the prisoners the Chinese would take those they keep across the border into China. Perhaps they have done so now. When I was captured in Novem- ber of 1950 along with Marines, Army and British troops at Koto, North Korea, they walked us to Camp 700 miles over the winding route they made us take. Camp 5 then held officers and enlisted men. That was about April, 1951. In the summer they hereded about 600 men and officers into a Korean theater and made the rest listen to loudspeakers outside while a high Chinese gave a bitter haran- gue against the "capitalistic war- He told the enlisted men they should have turned their guns on their officers, who were "the real warmongers in America." The lecture didn't go over very well with either the enlisted men or officers. The Communists triwj every way in the world to indoctrinate the prisoners. They succeeded in some cases, but I would say the per- centage was very small. They used race against race and nationality against nationality in an effort to stir up animosity among the prisoners. On that score I was real proud to note 99 per cent of our men, regardless of race or creed, stood pat. They knew what was going on and didn't buy it. Later on the Reds opened up Camp 2 and moved all the officers wwwmm MONIY Miliii W Aft wBAtfAMl fipmn iv mnii I EATIM I! up, there. They insisted that I was a Marine captain and moved me there with the officers despite my protests 'that I was a civilian war correspondent. In trying to make me admit I was a Marine captain they made me stand at attention for hours at a time out in the raw cold. Three times they made me stand with my nose pressed against a bright light for hours on end in an effort to break me down or force me to write something favorable to them. I guess that is what is wrong with my eyes now. Once, while they had me in the hole, they tried to force me to write letters down to my corres- pondent friends at Panmunjom, Munsan and Seoul telling them they were being misled by the United Nations propaganda. They also asked me to write to the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Bal- timore Sun, Kansas City Star and the Los Angeles Times, 'and tell them "the peoples peace move- was right and just. I re- fused. They even forged some of our names to letters and published them. I know of several such cases. Actually I've talked with some of the Chinese soldiers from time to time and they have told me that half ,or more of the so-called volun- .teers are anti-Communist and were conscripted.