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PAGE TWELVE THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE' WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1951 Defeat for Canadian Came Not In Battle But In Return Home By Bill Boss Canadian Press Staff Writer Tokyo (CP)-- It was the end of a capaign, a bitter heart-break- hE defeat. . It had been a desperate rear- guard action, a one-man show, all the way back from a beleaguered Korean mountain-top north of Kap- yong. It had been waged in a lonely slit-trench in the heat of battle, in the regimental aid post, in the field sugical hospital to which he had been evacuated by helicopter, through long weeks in the convales- cent. hospital in Kure, Japan, and 'here in Tokyo, where in an army medical centre he awaited the plane home to Canada. For he didn't want to go. He didn't want to go. He was determined to stay, to get well again, to go back and fight as he had never fought before. FLIGHT HOME But there he was, airborne. Over suburban Haneda airport the silver CPA North Star sparkled in the late afternoon sun and wheeled sharply eastward, scattering his hopes in its slipstream. Like a glass-blower in the forge of that setting orb, the aircraft drew finer and ever finer the tie between him and his battalion until, somewhere over the pacific, it imperceptibly gave. And a new lfe, for a differ- ent man, drew ever closer ahead. He was 24, had been around be- fore. He'd sailed in ships, had known the adventurous tang of merchant navy life. He'd been strong, too, had gloried in hard work, in exercising the rich pile of muscle down his back and chest and the great sinews of his arms. But that was all "before." Wrap into one packet all the things he'd done, the places seen, the persons known in the six months ago since he'd come away a boy. It was a man who was going home. He'd undergone the fighting sol- dier's change, the incommunicable experience that only the man who has faced it understands. TESTED IN BATTLE In the agony of the climb, wind- ed, dead tired and weary from the 75-pound load on his back, he'd forced himself to '"'get there." He never grumbled or complained. Once on the top he'd nerved him- self to the suspense of waiting. In the heat of battle he'd steeled him- self to 'take it." At grips with the enemy he'd marvelled in the vry combat how body and soul show all fatigue and thrill at his com- mand of every reflex and reaction, how automatically it went, how every new and desperate peril sum- moned up new resources from with in his being to sustain him. He'd lived with death and walked beside himself. He'd come up bloody, mangled, murmuring, "thanks God, I can take it." The depths and heights hold no new terrors for the man who's found himself. His crucible was the moment when a Chinese grenade came into the trench from which he, as lead- er, was directing his section's battle. It shredded his arm. It gouged his bowels. blood and pain. Improvising his tunic into a bandage, he carrjed on the battle. He couldn't shoot. But still he had grenades. He locked them between his j Exess, flesh lest they explode inside the ling the hills, dopg while, he would have to go It cost him | the lever firm against his trench when he drew the pin with his good left hand. HIT AGAIN It was a slow, painful method for the pace set by the oncoming Chinese masses. He doesn't know how many he threw, just that he kept them going over until one Chinese, closer than the rest, poked a carbine into the trench and fired at point-blank range. That did it. He crumpled over and for .a while his position was ignored. But still that will to live drove on, "I can't die now," he thought, "I won't die." Thinking back over it later he said: "After all that happened I just couldn't, wouldn't give in. "It was like when we were climb- I always just said to myself that I just had to get there. And I had to now." As the battle allowed he crawled out of his trench, dragged himself slowly with one hand, unable to make much use of his legs because of the torture to his stomach, and inch by inch got down a few feet/ below the mountain crest, Hanging grimly onto brush and grass and thorn--whatever came first within his grasp--he followed the line of the ridge over to his platoon com mander's dugout, briefed him on the situation forward and then allowed his wounds to be dressed. He couldn't be evacuated that night. BACK TO HOSPITAL That was the night during which finally the Chinese over-ran the Canadian position and for three hours United Nations artillery poured concentration after concen- tration down upon it in murder- ous lacings which ultimately drove them back. Morning was well advanced be- fore stretcher-bearers were able to get him down the regimental aid post 2,000 feet below and 1% miles away. A helicopter got him back to the field surgical hospital. It was in June that they told him his days of soldiering were over -- he had lost a kidney, he would have to take it easy for a home and find some job not too demanding on his mutilated body | and his sapped strength. He had himself paraded betores the medical officer. He wanted a | reboard, a chance to stay. It was | no go. The answer was final: "Home for you." In Tokyo he tried again. Another parade. The same request. The same answer. It was hell when he met some of the old gang on their Tokyo leave. He tried again, and still no go. And so he left. His name? Pte. Tony Edmond. He may be sitting alongside you in a Toronto streetcar, or at the opposite table in a Glace Bay, N.S, restaurant, They're the places he calls "home." ROUGH STUFF London (CP)--A girl collapsed {in juvenile court here when the judge read a report card to her. | It described the girl as "anti-social mean and having the makings of a bully." | Thornton's S.S. Picnic Held At Lynbrook Park MRS. CHAS. WHITE Correspondent Thornton's Corners Monday found Thornton's in a picnic mood Grand picnic weather and lots of good food! Lynbrook Park was the place "of meeting-- Young and old their friends were greeting. Members of Sunday School and ecquaintances Enjoyed the supper, stunts and races; There was even a clown, grease paint, and all. He amused most children, some he made howl. Some arrived early, for an extra hour's. fun And played on the slides and and swings in the sun. / Well over one hundred sat down to the table And ate just all they were able. Then Mr. Foster made a speech; He called on the men and women who teach. They each presented the best in their class With a little gift, and at the last Mr. Ted Robinson was given a book. (You should have seen the sur- prised look.) He has completed fifteen years in Sunday School work; In dealing with boys, Ted doesn't shirk. Betty King also was sent a gift, A little remembrance to give her a lift. On her three-month mission trip out west We all wish her the very best, After that there were the races, Elmer Lick put them through the paces. Peanuts and Watermelon, too; My how quickly the evening flew. These get-to-gethers leave mem- ories dear-- See you all again next year. Class prize winners were: Mrs. Walter Langmaid's class -- Grant Buss and Garry Bonnetta; Mrs. C. White's class -- Marilyn Bunker; Mrs. Ross Law's class--Mary Gold- smith; Ross Law's class--Paul Mol lon; Ted Robinson's class--Ed. White. Prizes for races:Z-7-9 year olds, girls--1. Lois "Parker. 2. Hazel Al- lin. 7-9 years, boys, 1. Douglas Allan. 2. Gerald Johnson. 10-12 years, girls, balloon break- ing, 1, Carolyn Buss. 2. Dale Stone- house. 10-12 years, boys, balloon break- ng, 1. Paul Mollon. 2. Richard Hell 13-15, girls, Lollipop sucking, 1. Marilyn Bunker, 2. Betty Harmer. 13-15, boys, carrying alleys on a plate, 1. Jim Connolly. 2. Jim Smith. Open three-legged race, 1. Elmer Lick and Lloyd Scott. 2. Kathleen Langmaid and Lucille Lick. Ladies throwing paper plate, 1. Mrs. George Allan. 2. Mrs. Arthur Bunker. Ladies string winding, 1. Mrs. Walter Langmaid. 2. Mrs. Walter Johnson, Mixed tie race, 1. Mrs. Walter Langmaid and Ross Law. 2. Mrs. TREAT YOUR FRIENDS WISHING WELL ORANGE oy RIGHT NOW! George Lofthouse and Bob Sully. Guessing the weight of the water- melon was won by Judy Reeson. Mr. and Mrs. Kerman and Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell ahd family spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. Rognvaldson at Acton. Mr. and Mrs, Peter Lofthouse and Ed Whtie spent last week-end at their cottdge at Stony Lake. PHONES FROM KOREA Stratford (CP) -- Mrs. Frank Blackmon's husband called to say he'd be home for vacation in July or August. He's in Korea with the United States army. De Gaulle Is Ready To Form Government Paris (Reuters)-- Gen. Charles De Gaulle said that as the de de Gaulle, whose party won more | Gaullists have the largest number seats in the recent federal elec- tions than any other single party Friday he is ready to form France's next administration. De Gaulle said his party -- Ras- semblement du Peuple Francais-- is ready to take over 'with all those who are willing to help us." of seats in the new dssembly, "it is to us that democratically falls the capital responsibility of the gov ernment of France." The total of native-owned cattle in northern Rhodesia is estimated at 733,500. YOUNG FARMERS FOR CANADA AND USA . Britain's National Federation of YFCs has announced the names of the six Young Farmers who will visit Canada as guests of thé Junior Farmer's Association of Ontario and the US. as guests of the 4H Clubs of America. The six who will sail on August 4th and spend a month in Canada and 2% months in the U.S. arey, Misses Sylvia Brewer, 24, mpound Road, Truro; P. 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