Show Russians Take U. U US U.S. S. S Newsmen and Diplomats Diplomats' s' s t. To Scene of Alleged Massacre Masacre of Poles Poles Poles' n By Henry C. C Cassidy C ly U USSR SS S'S R Jan 26 A Jp-A P A party of American and British corr correspondents were taken Wednesday to lm Katyn for tor- forest est eat 10 miles outside and shown the scene where a sp special cial soviet Investigating commission charges the Germans shot thousands thousands thou thou- sands of ct Poles one by one In August August Au Au- gust and September of 1941 The German tale talc that the thc Poles were shot by the Russians in March and April of 1940 19 0 was described described de de- described scribed by bye the commission as as provocation A special train took the corre corre- correspondents I corre-I I to the scene where they were shown bodies in mass graves medical e. e experts at work making post-mortem post examinations examinatioN and the special commission hearing testimony of witnesses Americans among the party in included included in- in Miss Miss' Kathleen Harriman daughter daught r of United States States' Ambassador Ambassador Ambas Ambassador W. W A Averill Harriman and John Melby Bloomington Ind third secretary of ot the embassy who accompanied the c correspondents correspond correspond- en at the emb embassy's request I The conclusions already reached 1 by the special soviet atrocities l commission were One One HIt It is established that in August a and d September of 1941 the Germans killed Polish prisoners of ot war on the Goat hills in Katyn forest Two T Feeling their position Insecure Insecure insecure in In- secure the Germans hastened to cover up their crime For this purpose they opened the graves and tried to f fin find I n d witnesses brought bodies from other graves graves graves and mounted provocation Correspondents ts were shown documents docI documents doc doc- umen taken from Polish bodies dated as late as June 20 1941 which would make the German ex ex- explanation explanation explanation of ot the mystery impossible sible Bible saw evidence th that t the bodies h had d been in the ground only about two years and heard testimony confirming the soviet version The scene of ot the crime was Wa a sparse cluster of pine trees on the Goat hills above the upper per just off the highway 10 miles west of where seven gaping open graves exposed Indisputable evi evi- f I r dence that thousands of at Poles had been killed I Professor Profesor senior medical expert of the thc soviet atrocities commission and director of the Moscow institute of crimInal criminal criminal crim crim- inal medical research was waa in charge of ot the exhumation He said more than bodies already al already already al- al ready had been removed from the tombs and estimated the tho total at Dr stood on a heap of sand above a ove the graves while red army privates dug out the bodies placed them on stretchers stretch stretch- I era ers and carried them to a near near-by tent for examination On the basis of ot examination of the condition of the bodies medIcal medical medical med med- ical and ana criminal exper experts estimate the bodies were confined In the grave about two years perhaps a little more or a little less the doctor said In two graves the bodies lay in neat rows fully tully clad In uniform uniforms uni uni- forms form and boots In other pits pita three feet deep which the Germans Germans Ger Get mans had not touched the bodies lay in a Jumble |