Word: wuchow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...tried to get him to sign a confession. They called a "denunciation meeting," but not one Chinese came forward to condemn him. The Reds then arrested six members of the hospital staff as "reactionary pro-Americans." None of them has been heard from since. Dr. Wallace was paraded through Wuchow and the surrounding countryside carrying a derisive placard, then returned to Wuchow jail when he appeared to be in a state of collapse...
...heart of the Stout Memorial Hospital, interesting himself in every patient, going untiringly from operating room to bedside in a never-ending round of charity . . . The only possible sentence the Communists could have passed on him was that he went about doing good. The Maryknoll Fathers of the Wuchow Diocese mourn the loss of Dr. Wallace, whose friendship they esteemed . . . He will be mourned by thousands of Chinese...