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...River to Hong Kong and Macao (TIME, July 5). The number by last week had reached 66, most of them tied and mangled. Last week the China-watchers got another indication of the state of affairs in side China when a batch of newspaper photographs reached Hong Kong from Wuchow, a river-trade city in the Kwangsi region of South China. Although blurred and faded, the pictures provided the first photographic proof of the recent ravages caused by factional fighting...
Appearing in a paper printed by the United Command, a relatively conservative Red Guard faction, the pictures showed burned-out buildings, debris-littered streets and general devastation in Wuchow. The accompanying text shrilly blamed the destruction on a radical faction. The radicals' newspaper, printed at about the same time, blames the damage on the conservatives and claims that the fierce fighting reduced more than 2,000 buildings to rubble, left 40,000 residents homeless and killed hundreds...
...morning of Feb. 9, 1951, one of the best-known missionaries in China was found dead in his prison cell at Wuchow. He was Dr. William L. Wallace, 43, a Southern Baptist medical missionary. His Communist jailers, who had imprisoned him on trumped-up "spy" charges, called it suicide. When Father Mark Tennien, a Roman Catholic Maryknoll missionary and a longtime friend of Dr. Wallace's, got out of China last November, newspaper stories from Hong Kong quoted him as confirming this version of Wallace's death (TIME...
...best-loved Americans in China was Medical Missionary William L. Wallace, 42, a Southern Baptist of Knoxville, Tenn. When no Chinese would testify against him, the Reds "found" a pistol in his bed in Wuchow, and dragged him off to jail in his pajamas (TIME, March 12). This week in Hong Kong, Father Mark Tennien, Roman Catholic missionary from Pittsford, Vt., and a prisoner in Wuchow before he was expelled from China by the Communists, told the rest of the story...
...Maryknoll leaders in Wuchow were arrested about the same time as Dr. Wallace. In Hong Kong last week, the Communist newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported the arrest of 19 people in Tientsin as spies "under the camouflage of the Catholic Church...