CAPTURED G.l.'s MARCHED BY REDS THROUGH SEOUL
TOKYO, July 24
Fifty American prisoners were paraded through the streets of Seoul by the Communists recently to show Northern "superiority.” A young Korean doctor who escaped from the former capital to the American lines in South Korea said (his today. He added that some people in Seoul believed the parade was not of Americans but Russians dressed in G.I. uniforms. The doctor who fears reprisals against his family if his name is published, walked from Seoul in 10 days disguised as a peasant. The doctor said that Seoul was flooded with pictures of Stalin and the Northern leader, Kim 11-sun.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23315, 26 July 1950, Page 7
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108CAPTURED G.I.'s MARCHED BY REDS THROUGH SEOUL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23315, 26 July 1950, Page 7
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