Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1951 — Page 36

. PAGE 36 : : ; : Manage to Stay Alive—

Hungry Refugees Are Slowly Returning To Bombed-Out Seoul

By JIM G. LUCAS a sweater for a vest. Sometimes, Reripps- Howliea Staff Writer : if it's cold, he wears his old gray ‘BEOUL, Nov 186 Tal Sun gyerceat at his desk.

His office is on the second floor of the Seoul City Hall-—one of the few comparatively undamaged buildings in*town. Many of the City Hall's windows are gone, and its corridors are cold and drafty. South Korean soldiers stand guard at the front entrance, and the

{im, mayor of Seoul, 1s a busy nd a harassed man. Before the war, Seoul was a jodern city of 2.5 million peole. Twice occupied by the Comit has since had as few

unists

: 75000 residents. Today, it's &-.. s 35000 residents. Today, It'S yy 4ing seems deserted. rubble in which 600.000 Koreans “We have so little money.” ymehow manager to stay alive. Mayor’ Kim said without comfew structures are’ turning, plaint. “There is so little we can

here's a water and sewage Sysem of sorts, but there are few laces to live and little to eat. Mayor Kim is a short, fat man iti horn-rimmed glasses. He ears an old, blue serge suit with

do. Officially, we urge the peopie not to come back to Seoul. But there are 600,000 here now and there will be 700,000 soon. This is their home, even if there is nothing here for them, and we

don't chase them®out. Living costs are so high in Pusan. It is mueh cheaper here, and that is why many have come home.” When the war started, Mayor Kim was head of the national police and Seoul city police chief. He became mayor when his predecessor, Li Kee Boong, joined the Rhee cabinet as minister of national defense. The majoralty is a presidential appointment. The mayor invited me to accompany him on a visit to the South Korean army just outside Seoul. “You will ride in my sedan,” he sald. “It is the old Ford in which I escaped from Seoul in June, 1950. At least, it is better than a jeep.” :

As we walked down the stairs,!

the mayor recalled his escape. “I got a telephone call from

your ambagsador, Mr. Mucclo, at 3 a. m. on the 27th, He told me

to hurry out’ of Seoul. But I stayed until the 29th. By then, North Korean tanks were in the city. “We drove to the Han River bridge-—my chauffeur, my bodyguard and I-—but the Army was ready to blow it up. They said I couldn't cross. I told my chauffer to drive on. The soldiers were angry; ‘we thought they might shoot us. We had to drive very

Slowly; a bump would have set!

off the TNT. Just as we got across, the bridge blew up.

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. Mayor Kim took a long drag

‘on his American cigaret,

“I was very lucky,” he sald without emotfon. “If I had not

gotten agross, I would have had,

to commit suicide.” After 10 miles, we were stopped by Korean MP's who warned Mavor Kim could not enter the

| neutral zone. The young officer

for delivering the embarrassed and

responsible message was flustered. “He is one of my boys,” Mayor Kim said. “He used to work for me in the police department. He is upset to be giving me orders.! But that is how things are now.” | At the command post for a South Korean Army division, | Mayor Kim shook hands enthu-!

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moned &is staff for a briefing. | The mayor frequently nodded his head in violent agreement, ap-| parently when the general said| something unpleasant about the] enemy. Korean ' reporters scrib-| bled furiously, occasionally ask-| ing questions. “I should not have gone,” the mayor said as we headed back! to Seoul, “but I like to get out of the office. I have many things to do, but little to do with, I|

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