GIRL TOMMY-GUNS SEVEN AMERICANS AND KILLS FIVE OF THEM
I TOKIO, Sept. 5 (Recd. 6’ p.m.)—A | North Korean girl guerrilla tommyI gunned seven bound American prison- | ers on Sunday night, killing five. She ! shot them in a tent where they had been captured in their sleep behind the United States lines by a guerrilla band of three women and seven men disguised as South Korean troops. The story was; pieced together from an interview with two wounded Americans who feigned death and then escaped. | The guerrillas returned to the scene of the atrocity yesterday and badly wounded an Army Signal Corps photographer as he took pictures of the death scene. The photographer, after being wounded, also pretended to be dead. A guerrilla smashed him in the face with a rifle butt, but the cameraman did not move. He crawled away when the guerrillas left. An American intelligence officer said the killings were “an absolutely verified atrocity ot the most vicious sort.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 September 1950, Page 5
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