Word: tsingteh
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Protestant churchmen, they looked remarkably alike: serious, firm-jawed young people with tortoise-shell glasses. Married 14 months ago, Mrs. Stam had her first child, a girl, by a caesarean operation, last September. Outposters of the interdenomi national China Inland Mission, they taught the way of the Lord in Tsingteh in Southern Anhwei Province, 200 miles from Nanking, which is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's stronghold of law & order...
Last month Generalissimo Chiang an nounced that he had "broken the backbone of Communism in China" by chasing the Communists out of Kiangsi Province. Nanking authorities added that nearby districts were "safe." Nonetheless, a band of Communists bobbed up at Tsingteh and kidnapped Mr. and Mrs. Stam and Daughter Helen Priscilla. One morning last week the Communists paraded the two missionaries through the muddy streets of a nearby village, then slashed off their heads with a great curved sword, supposedly in a shrewd effort to embarrass Generalissimo Chiang. A Chinese Christian pastor found the Stams' baby girl alive...
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