3 News Agency. Iam 23 and I was a; truck-driver, boxer, wrestler and speedway driver. In the States, jobs are hard to get so I did what I could. I joined the army to save money so that afterwards I could study something and settle down to rear children. I wanted to see Japan too. Like nearly all these GlIs,, I thought it was a peace-time army. We got fooled, that was all. None Of us ever reckoned on doing any fighting and then, there we were, in the middle of a war-with real guns and real soldiers shooting— and shooting straight, too. Even when we came to Korea they tried to tell us we weren't going to fight anyone — just a kind of police work. Some of the suckers believed it. But we found plenty of fighting. These Koreans shoot and you can’t see them. Their camouflage is perfect. One minute you are looking at an empty hillside and the next, it’s full of men shooting at you. They were there all the time. What can you do? You can’t See them till they want you to— then it’s too late. That was how I got caught. The usual story—cut off inthe rear and then you look round and find a lot of People’s Army men and just hold up your hands. * * * Up here we get fine treatment, much better than we deserve af- ter sticking our noses into other folks’ affairs. The food is good, the medical treatment is good. I Amei:can GI’s On their way to a Korean pzisoner of war camp 'l believe in fighting for right - this is all wrong’ Reuben K. Kimball Jr., of Baytown, Texas, was a private of 8054 medical evacuation hospital based at Fusan until he was captured at Y ongdon on July 2/. He is now a prisoner of war at Seoul. This is his story, set down in his own words, as he told it to a war have only one complaint, and that’s against Uncle Sam’s air force. Have you seen what those lousy b——s are doing? Have you seen the villages—miles from anything like a military objective--flat as a field? Have you seen them shooting peasants working in the fields and strafing little cottages not big enough to hold a cow? Leok at what happened to me coming up from the south: There were six of us prisoners and two Korean guards walking along a road in a single file, miles from the front and going the wrong way. There was a guard in front and one at the back, six of us GIs in the middle, and over comes an F-80. : We stick our hands up, high as they wouldego and wide apart— no helmets, no guns, guard back and front—couldn’t be anything but prisoners and that. . . (mean- ing the pilot, unprintable) came in at 500 feet and killed the mid- dle three. I was lucky, but after that no one trusted to luck. A pilot told me back in the rear, their orders were anything that’s moving—stop it! Anything that’s stopped—move it! I though he was fooling then. I don’t think:so now. * * * Later on three of us were sick so they sent the other two of us on with one guard. There we were one day, resting in a little straw-roofed shack. with nothing for miles around except a few peasants working in the paddy field and along comes another correspondent of the New China F-80—you know those things, you hear the machine guns before you hear the engine. So what does he do? Slings everything, has a go at that little hut in the middle of nowhere, with 50-calibre gun, 20-mm machine- guns, two rockets and one para- chute delayed action bomb. He missed with everything and the bomb didn't go off. Coming through I saw nine peas&nts dead in one field where they were working on the rice and three more in another, I guess the air force are. just trigger happy. What sort of war is this where you leave military targets alone and go around bombing ,a lot of villages and shooting up peasants? We took no chances after that. As soon as we heard a little noise in the sky we hit the ground. Boy! How I love those rice fields. Never mind the water, never mind the slime. I go right in flat and stay in deep._as I can get when those flying Ss come over. I can’t agree with my country doing these things.’ I want no part of this war after what I have seen, I bélieve in fighting for the right thing, and this is all wrong. These South Koreans don’t want any part of this guy Rhee. They want'to be in with the northern lot. And let them go, I say. This is a civil war and no American should be in it. And you ean tell the Americans or the British or whoever you like, what I said. It’s fine by me. es OPENING ‘PROMOTION CENTER’ IN RANGOON Scab intern RANGOON The so-called International Con- federation of Free Trade Unions, Organized and financed through the US. state department, will extend its espionage and sabotage opera- ons into South East Asia. A South East Asia Promotion Cen ter” is to be opened shortly, F. W. Dalley, chairman of the yellow international’s “Far Eastern deéle- 8ation announced here recently. Bombing cannot halt volunteer supply force By NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY WAR CORRESPONDENT American “saturation bombing’ has failed in both its objectives here. It has not destroyéd but enhanced public morale and it has not affected military supply. ON THE KOREAN FRONT Near the front, it is possible to gather a real impression, of the feeling the people of Korea have for their army and their determin- ation to see that it lacks nothing to ensure victory. Here, from the moment that dusk falls until the sun drives the shadows off the roads, the whole cbuntryside starts to move north and south! On the secOndary roads and byways, on trails over the moun- tains, on thousand or routes un- touchable by American aircraft, the Korean people are transport- ing munitions and food for the army. They carry them on their Shoulders, on Oxcarts, wheelbar- rows, supplementing the normal supply routes. ” While one section of the popula- tion is carrying through this great feat of transport work, another, equally large, is spending the nights on reconstruction work. Their speed and skill is remark- able and I have yet to see a case in which damage has not been temporarily and very effectively repaired overnight. These masses of volunteer work- ers, farmers and town dwellers, cannot be counted, but there are more than are needed and more are volunteering all the time. They are unpaid, they provide their own military guards and they are un- asailable from the air. American boasts that they will cut the supply lines of the People’s Army with jet fighters are too ab- surd to warrant consideration. No jets, or any other fighters or bomb- ers can touch this vast network of transport and _ reconstruction workers, who dissolve completely into the countryside—their country- side—with the first rays of the sun, leaving the Americans to bomb blindly and wantonly. When the People’s forces need food, the local people rush to supply it. Their attitude is: “Every mile the People’s Army advances en- '/sures the security.of land reform, and we shall] eat well later. These people are fighting for us and their needs come first.” Two nights ago, I clambered up a mountainside and watched one thread of this supply web. We sat on the hillside, with one guard posted on either side in case we should be mistaken by the militia for enemies. First came an oxcart with four men to assist in hauling it through difficult places. It was loaded with cases of mortar bombs. Some distance below, on a turn of the trail, we could see white-clad figures, barely discernable in the moonlight. They stopped for a few minutes to talk ‘with us. Mostly they were peasants, but some were city people, less used to this arduous work of carrying food supplies on their backs. One said to me: “My home in ational invades Southeast Asia The peoples of Southeast Asia are well aware that not one genuine trade union center of the colonies and dependencies took part in its inaugural meeting or has joined it since, that its membership out- side the American,and British trade union centers, includes only the leaders of small American-subsi- dized scab groups which split away from genuine national trade union centers. It is known, too, that When the organizers of the so-called Free International—William Green, Irvy- ing Brown and Walter Reuther— laid down an anti-Communist pro- gram at its inauguration, it was freely admitted that the American promoters would subsidize the or- ganization by “meeting all currency difficulties.” The record of the scab interna- tional’s sabotage activities in Ber- ‘lin, its support of racist fascism in America and South Africa, its attempts to use reactionary emi- gres from the People’s Democra- cies as war-provocateurs and spies against the Soviet Union and peo- ple’s governments is hardly calcu- lated to attract support in. South- east Asia, where peoples fighting for national independence against colonial suppression, as in Malaya, have seen their own genuinely free trade unions brutally suppressed. ; Pyongyang was destroyed by B29s two weeks ago and my wife and two children were killed. This is the way I can have my revenge, by helping the army.” Another ‘said, “I have walked all the way down from Pyongyang to try to get into the army but they had too many younger men. So I am doing this instead and I shall not go back till we have won.” We sat for 20 minutes in the silence and suddenly without a whisper of sound, a group of dark figures stood ten paces away, tom- my guns ready and watching us. It was the People’s Army—a com- pany of infantry on its way south at a steady 17 miles a night. They had passed through many villages and towns reduced to rub- ble by American planes and were burning with a desire to reach the front. Every man was newly equip- ped with uniform. For several hours we watched the stream of men and supplies going south and, coming from the south another stream of men re- turning for more supplies. Today, I saw British planes for the first time. But if all the im- perfalist countriegy send all the planes they possess, they cannot stop Korea’s millions from supply- ing their army. The people are certain to win. Demand French recognition of People’s China A call for al] Frenchmen to sign a resolution demanding the French s0vernment’s recognition of the Chinese People’s Republic has been made here. Carried by the Conser- vative newspaper Le Figaro and other Paris papers, the call came from 28 French deputies, educators, writers and former resistance lead- ers, , The document ¥'so demanded that the French government should cease opposing admission of the Chinese People’s Republic into the U.N. “This gesture,” is said, “would help India’s efforts for preserving peace.” Brifish profits jump 7 percent — LONDON As the cost of living in Britain becomes an increasingly desperate matter for the working class, the Financial Times reports an un- precedented rise in the Profits of British Industria] companies. The paper reports that the gross profits of 2,203 industrial, oil, min- ing and plantation companies whose reports have appeared in the first seven months of this year show an advance “of over seven percent compared with previous accounting periods.” For the industrial section, the’ 22 groups concerned report total] pro- fits of £796 million ($2,321 million), a@ gain of £48 million ($147 million), or 6.5 percent, This news, however, is not being given prominence in the British daily press, which echoes govern- ment apprehensions concerning the reactions of working people who have just been asked to shoul- der heavier taxes and a longer “wage freeze” to meet the huge eosts of British war preparations. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 25, 1950—PAGE 3