NORTH KOREANS KILL AND BURN WAR PRISONERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 September 1950, Page 5

NORTH KOREANS KILL AND BURN WAR PRISONERS

TOKIO, This Day (Rec. 2 p.m.).— North Koreans killed and burned 18 Americans and slew 787 South Korean soldiers and civilians before leaving Chongju, which the Allies recaptured last Tuesday. A First Cavalry Division spokesman in Chongju last night quoted enemy prisoners for this information. The spokesman said that the Americans were reported slain on September 22. He added that details of the American slaying were not available. Enemy prisoners said that 187 of the South Koreans killed were blown to bits when the enemy dynamited a stockade. The other 600 were shot dead. Captain William Cochrane, intelligence officer for the Seventh Cavalry Regiment with the United States Twenty-fifth Division, said last night: “It is fairly well established that General William Dean is alive.” He based his statement on reports made by war prisoners and civilians in widely-separated areas. Some South Korean released prisoners of war said that the General was moved from the stockade in Chongju recently. General Dean was commander of the United States Twenty-fourth Division. He has been missing since the July retreat from Taejon.