The Capital Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 13

Capital Journal, Salem, Tuesday, Augrust 29, 1950 13 Battle-Dressed British Troops Land in Korea By HAL BOYLE and DON WHITEHEAD A South Korean Port, Aug. 29 (IP) British troops in their jungle green battle dress stepped ashore today to give the British commonwealth Its first fighting force in the United Nations action against North Korean Reds. Tan and hardy Scotsmen and lean young warriors from the London area disembarked frorr bit sad when he was told the the aircraft carrier Unicorn and the cruiser Ceylon to the cheers staple native drinks were sake of South Koreans and and unguaranteed apple brandy The carrier Unicorn touched As the carrier slid up to the pier, the U. S. 56th army band played "God Save the King." It was a moment of high Imotion the pier at 12:20 p.m.

6:20 p.m. (EST) Monday. for those watching. The bagpipes played "The Glen Aurel Hiehlanders," as com- On the decks of the carrier, Danv of the Argyll and Suther the British came to attention They stood at the rail, tall and land Higherlands regiment trotted down the gangplank of the straight. And then, as the notes cruiser Ceylon died away, they cheered.

A South Korean band also Thev were cheerful, these men welcomed the British and a chor from Britain who were brought here from their station at Hong us of South Korean girls sang the British anthem. Most of the girls had fled Seoul, capital of South Korea which fell to the Red China's Protest Kong. Sgt. Ian Bell of Paisley Scotland said: Getting Acquainted American troops in South Korea are shown talking to newly arrived British officers (left to right): Capt. John Shipster, 2nd Lt.

Jeff Bucknal, Capt. Andrew Brown and Capt. John Slim. Capt. Slim of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is the son of Field Marshal Sir William Slim, chief of the Imperial general staff.

(Acme Now in Korea This is the way British troops of the Middlesex regiment looked as they boarded the carrier Unicorn at Hong Kong. They landed in Korea today as the first British troops to join United Nations forces there. (AP Wirephoto) "The lads feel we should have Reds early in the invasion. Red Sub Officers Should Go to U. N.

I Then the girls sang the "Unit ed Nations Welcome Song been here sooner." Company Sergeant-Major Robert Murray of Glasgow commented, "We are quite happy. We can handle the mountain written by a South Korean. They sang: "The United Nations army is coming, holding up the forces They are under the command of ing their packs and weapons to Sail Secretly Brigadier B. A. Coad, 44, a lean.

disembark. fighting. We have always taken An American shouted from the greying officer who fought with Field Marshal Montgomery in Europe. pier, "How's the morale of your men?" London, Aug. 29 W) The Daily Herald in a story from Stockholm today said Russian submarine officers are sailing Before his men arrived, Coad A private turned and irlnned told correspondents: GIVEN UP AS DEAD OR PRISONERS TwoGlsHideOutforl8Days; Spend Time Praying to Lord By STAN SWINTON Masan Front, Korea, Aug.

29 (ff) Two American artillerymen were cut off and hid in the Red-infested hills 18 days. They said they spent their time reading the testament and praying to the lord. They reached American lines late today. They are Sgt. Charles Umi of Honolulu and Cpl.

Lester L. Drake, Tornot, both of the broadly across the rail. it so we can carry on." One laughing soldier said: "I am Just an immigrant." And another put an identification tag in his eye, as if it were a monocle, and inspected Korea. A moustached soldier called to an American on the pier and asked: "Any gum, chum?" "I am proud to be chosen com secretly in Soviet merchant ships to all parts of the world. "Very good," he said.

"Very mander of the first British good indeed. Couldn't be (ground) forces to come to Ko 'They are under orders to rea. I am proud to be able to Near him a young soldier stood Washington, Aug. 29 (U.B The state department said today that communist China's protest against alleged Anglo-Americart bombing of Manchurian towns is a matter for the United Nations to handle. State Department Press Spokesman Michael J.

McDer mott said the protest reached the state department at 4:18 a.m. today, many hours after it had been broadcast by the Peiping radio. The protest note said American superfortresses and British planes attacked three towns on the Manchurian side of the YaJ-' lu river, which separates Man churia and North Korea. No American air attacks in this, area have been reported by Am" erican authorities. American ficials in Tokyo flatly denied any flights across the Yalu river.

fight again beside by old friends, the Americans." of righteousness, to put an end to wickedness." The first officer ashore from the Unicorn was Major R. A. Gwyn of Helensburg, Scotland. "Our men want to know what they have got to do and they are ready to do it," he said briefly. The Ceylon touched the pier a few minutes after the Unicorn and the wild music of bagpipes swirled across the water.

They were playing "The Barren Rocks of Aden." The bagpipes were resplendent in kilts and sporrans with cocky glengarries perched on their heads. As the music ended, a bull- looking at the green hills rising achieve pinpoint navigational skill and learn snapshot recognition of foreign vessels in the shortest possible time," the dis in the distance the kind of hills Mostof the officers and a large Pvt. Patrick Boyd of Port Glasgow yelled "are there any pubs here where a mon can get across which he would be fight majority of the noncoms are bat tie veterans of World War II. a drop o' drink?" He looked a The British brought light fight umphant, shouting Red Koreans and up to the hills. That was at Pangam, which now is six miles behind the communist lines.

"Each day seemed a ing equipment mortars, ma chinegunsv automatic rifles and rifles. The Americans will help patch said. A. J. McWhinnie, the Herald's Stockholm correspondent, said his facts were "pieced together from three authentic sources of information." He did not disclose these sources.

"While prefabricated parts of submarines are still being carried by rail and canal to widely-scattered bases," the account continued, "actual assembly of them get heavier equipment end said Drake. "We hid in the hills ing soon. "We can take it," he said. "We can try anything once." Lance Cpl. Charles Bell, a 33-year-old eoal miner from Fife, Scotland, said "We'll have a go at them sure thing.

The mountains here high? They're not. In Scotland they're much higher." The troops were from the Argyll and Sutherland regiment and the Middlesex regiment. artillery. They also will supply them with tank-killing 3.5 inch chinery has been slowed down for the training, sea time and skill of the crews to catch up. "My information is that the total of Russian submarines has reached 380, and the prefabrica-tion plant could produce 45 to 50 new boats each month if the trained crews were available." neckea sergeant-major waved a during the day, sleeping and reading the New Testament Umi had in his pocket and praying to the Lord to guide us." bazooks.

855th field artillery battalion. Weak and filthy, they were rushed to a hospital by ambulance after telling one of the great adventure stories of the Korean war. Umi and Drake were beside their guns August 11 when a North Korean slipped in and ambushed the position. He threw a at Umi. It failed to explode.

While their guns and vehicles framed up around them from communist incendiary grenades, the two artillerymen crawled through the tri- stick and shouted at his men: "Get back there Baker company. Get back to your gear." And the men began shoulder- "We had no food. We dug turnips out of the fields with the prefabricated hulls and ma- our own hands and stole cucumbers," Umi shipped in. 'A few times we found ration cans Americans had thrown away when they were up here. Sometimes the little can of jam had not been eaten." Once they hid in a house.

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Both had been given up either as dead or enemy prisoners "Tell the folks at home we are okay and not to Umi said. "That's right. Tell them we are okay," Drake added. Prisoner A 14-year-old North Korean prisoner, the first captive to be processed in this camp, stands inside barbed wire fence at a prisoner of war enclosure in Korea. (AP Wirephoto) Umi is a big Japanese-American.

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come in any rimo. EXAMINATION VITHOUT APPOINTMENT "I knew it at Songhwan when we first fought the Americans," Lee said. "But it's part of -the 'system' and if we stopped we would have been killed. We had to fight." The 'system' he referred to Stop in for these vital safeguards against engine-crippling dirt. And while you're there, enjoy the full treatment more than ten extra services from checking your tires for proper inflation to cleaning out ashtrays.

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"Why are you butting in?" When Dr. Bong told him the V. S. was here to defend Korean democracy, Lee laughed bitterly and shook his head in disbelief. During the Interrogation, North Koreans were the ln-the prisoner admitted that vaders.

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