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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1951 TTHE DRILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE SEVENTEEN" My wife and I had left Korea on furlough one month before the present war broke out, William Scott writes in The United Church Observer. Since then many people have .said to. us, "You must be happy. to be odt of Korea at a time like this." To which we could truthfully reply, "Not as happy as you might expect." It has not been a happy experience to read the "headlines and listen to the broadcasts of the past few months. We could imagine too well the sorrow and the suffer- ing that lay behind the news. %0- Year Link The Canadian church, through its missionaries, has known and shared the sorrows of the Korean people for over 50 years. We have known them as a . peace-loving people who,. through 4,000 years of history, have never been guilty of aggression against a neighbor. They have often suffered from invasion, and the geographical lo- cation of their land has made it the battleground of opposing pow- ers. It was over Korea that Japan fought China in 1894-5, and Russia in 1904-5. Then followed the fate- ful 40 years of domination by Japan, whose policy hot only failed to develop leadership but subjected a proud people: to indignity and agony of soul. During that period Korean leaders found encourage- ment 'and strength in the knowl- edge that their Christian friends knew and shared their sorrows. Came World War IT and the hope of release from Japan. I remember my surprise on the day-of Pear: Harbor when the mild-mannered soft-spoken superintendent of our mission hospital, Dr. Koh, greeted me with an excited "tayyutta" -- "this is it." Throughout the vary- ing fertunes of war they prayed for us and held fast their faith in an Allied victory. There was great re- Joicing when Japan at last capitu- lated. Now they would be free. But their hopes were doomed to disap- pointment. ~ Political expediency divided the country into two un- natural and antagonistic zones. The five-year trusteeship gave Russia time to indoctrinate the North and build up a fighting machine which finally made its unprovoked at- tack on South Korea in June. Letters Tell Hardship' Following the dark days of June July and August, when the Red Army smashed through the inade- quate defences of the South, cap- tured the capital city of Seoul and pushed the United Nations forces back to a dangérously small beach- head around Pusan. Again we guessed and shared the suffering. Letters from Korea show how real wer? the fears we held for our friends and for the great multi- tudes in Red-infested territory. Over 500,000 'were forcibly driven from Red-occupied cities, no doubt to clear the ground for military Evidence of U.N. Activity. ° Evidence of total war being waged by the United Nations air force in Korea is this smashed locomotive, whose front is strewn with the burned bodies of Chinese Communist soldiers following attacks by bombers and bh h kot: hi jet planes. Napalm r gun strafing in day and night aerial strikes have helped account for a part of the 57,000 casualties inflicted on the Reds within a period of 13 days. --Central Press Canadian. action, but also to provide human screens for the Red advance. Be- tween twenty and thirty thousand on the Communist blacklists were liquidated. Let' my friend, Profes- sor Kim of the seminary, tell of it in his dwn words. "I feel quite strange that I should live longer and write a letter to you with my-own hand. Devasta- tion wrought by the Communist invasion was far beyond our im- agination. Everything was ruined, especially the human resources. Professors, medical doctors, law- yers, prominent business men, and Christian ministers were carried away somewhere and missing alto- gether, except those who fled and hid themselyes adequately." Educator Killed Professor Kim goes on. to tell how Dr. Song, the president of the seminary, met. his death. He did not flee. He was a sick man who had suffered a stroke several months earlier. He may have thought that this would - protect him from violence. He was includ- ed in a group of 30 Seoul pastors and 40 outstanding laymen who were carried north by the Com- munists, Writes Professor Kim: "He was starved, hands 'bound, walking on naked feet. When he was completely exhausted and could not walk any farther, the soldier struck him down and thrust him through with his sword (bay- onet) . . . Others,'I believe, met similar fate with Dr. Song some- where." Several of our friends escaped by disguising themselves or feigning madness,' Others hid under the rafters of friends' homes, or in mountain caves, or beneath the floor boards of verandahs. They ¢ould not return home or 'appear on the streets for press gangs rounded up all able-bodied men for the Red army. One letter sumg it up thus: "How can I. describe the life I lived these past three Will Visit Constituents With Boat Vancouver, Feb. -- (CP) ~-- Bri- tish Columbia will 'get its' second sea-going 'Legislature member this summer when H: J. (Bert) Welch takes tq the ocean to reach his con- stituents. Mr. Welch, member for Comox district on Vancouver Island, al- ready uses land and air transpor- tation (he was a naval air pilot in the First World War) 'to cover the northern section of the island. In April, he will launch the 42- foot cruiser Helen Grace, named after his wife, to 'complete the transportation cycle. The Helen Grace will take Mr. Welch into isolated settlements along the west coast of Vancouver Island from Winter Harbor at the mouth of Quatsino Sound to the northern tip, and on the east coast from Nanaimo north. Another member, B. C. Macln- tyre of Powell River, operates a boat. . . > non months! If one could be sure that hell: was -anything like what we | went through under Red rule, he would surely believe in: Christ if only to be sure of reaching heaven." The brilliant military action which recaptured Seoul and drove the. Red army northward brought Serious Nature Wart Disease Shown By Tests Ottawa.--Emphasizing the need for continued vigilance if the dreaded wart. disease is to be kept from spreading to potato fields in other parts of Canada, G. C. Mor- gan, officer-in-charge for the Can- ada Department of Agriculture's Di- vision of Plant Protection in New- foundland, reports that the disease is spreading at an alarming rate and if not halted will be a great menace to farmers in that prov- ince. While losses from wart were not as heavy in 1950 as they were in 1949, Mr. Morgan said that out of 100 fields visited, 84 were infec- ted and losses from the disease ran- ged from 10 to 50 per cent. Under the regulations of the De- structive Insect and Pest Act, no potatoes are allowed to be exported from Newfoundland and every care is taken that this serious disease does not spread to other parts of Canada. At the Certified Seed Po- tato Conference to be held in Ot- tawa from February 15-19, Mr. Mor- gan will give a detailed report on the wart disease in Newfoundland ot the Canada Department of Agri- cuture's senior seed potato officials who will be coming to the Division of Plant Protection's head office from all over Canada to discuss various matters pertaining to the welfare of the industry. In an effort to determine the resistance of certain potato. vari- eties to the disease, joint tests were conducted in 1950 by the Canada Department of Agriculture's Divis- jon of Botany and Plant Pathology and the Division of Plant Profec- tion in three different parts of Newfoundland known to be infected with wart. Of the 14 varieties test- ed, Mr. Morgan reported that only Keswick, the new blight-resistant variety recently introduced by the Department, was found to be im- nary test. Some varieties like Katahdin, Se- bago (mauve bloom) and Canso were highly resistant, but not im- mune and Chippewa, Garnet Chili and Sequois showed some resistance to the disease. However the standard varieties like Green Mountain, Ir- ish Cobbler, Warba, Bliss Triumph and Early Rose were found to be highly susceptible to wart. Depart- ment officials stress the fact that these tests show the results of one a brief respite and rekindled hope |, of a free. and united Korea. The first printing press on the | American continent was established by the Spaniards in Mexico in 1539. | | | | Pack up your 'togs and enjoy the fun and thrills at the popular skiing spots. The bus will take you there -- and home again in carefree comfort. FARES ARE LOW (Round Trip - Subject to Change) SUNDRIDGE :.. $10.95 HUNTSVILLE . . 9.15 COLLINGWOOD 6.60 GRAVENHURST 7.35 A) ZZ OSHAWA BUS TERMINAL 14 PRINCE ST. PHONE 2825 mune to the disease in this prelimi- year's experiments only and point out that varying growing conditions may affect the spread and expres- sion of the disease from year to year, and that slightly different re- lis might be expected in the 1951 In 1948 plant Pathologists supect- ed that the strain of the wart fun- gus present in Newfoundland might differ from those found in England and the United States, because im- mune varieties from these countries appeared to be susceptible to this disease when grown in Canada's newest province. These suspicions were largely substantiated in the 1950 experiments in Newfoundland when it was found that both Arran Victory and Green Mountain were definitely susceptible to wart, whereas ifi England and the United States respectively they are consid- ered immune to this disease. 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