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ARREST, IMPRISONIENT BY
CHINESE COMMUNISTS ARE
DETAILED BY NARYKNGLLER
(This is the second in a series
for the N .CM’ .C. Neivs Service
of five articles written exclusively
by Mary knoll Father Joseph P.
McCormack, ivho was imprison
ed five years by the Chinese Reds.
He was released in June, In this
article he describes the events at
tending his arrest and imprison
ment.)
Fr. Joseph P. McCormack, M.M.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
Terror is the backbone of com
munism. That’s why they sent
an army of 30 police, soldiers
and political workers to arrest
me. They thought they would
properly prepare me for their
indoctrination of terror.
My communist captors swarm
ed all over my house in Shang
hai that summer evening. I
thought the whole place had ex
ploded as they came charging
into my room. They all seemed
to screech at once: “Put up
your hands!” A soldier pointed
a machine gun in my face. One
of the women soldiers asked me
in English; “Are you Joseph P.
McCormack?” “I guess I am,” I
answered. To which she replied,
“You are under arrest for your
destructive activities!” I asked
what this meant and she snap
ped, “No questions asked! No
answers given!”
They pushed me to the floor
and told me to remain there.
When they saw that I was in
their way while searching the
room they dragged me across
the floor and put me in a chair.
That was at 9:30 at night. They
went over the whole house, even
tearing up the floor boards.
They pulled the flowers out by
the roots and shook them to see
if I were hiding anything.
Sometime during the night, a
big fellow of more than 200
pounds sat opposite me, just
staring at me in an attempt to,
scare me. After an hour or so he
got up and went into my bed
room and drank my Mass wine
and then fell asleep in my bed.
Soon he was snoring loudly,
nice and comfortable, in my
bed, where I should have been.
About 5:30 in the mOrning
they stood me up between two
big Chinese soldiers who twist
ed my arms behind my back and
shook me back and forth to give
the impression I was struggling.
A photographer took five pic
tures of this phony scene. I
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knew exactly what they intend
ed. I saw the same type of pic
tures in the papers after they
arrested the In.ternuncio. I was
supposed to be the big Ameri
can criminal resisting the Chi
nese guards. They then put me
between two very young lads in
uniform and took five more pic
tures. All the time in Chinese
they were screeching: “Don’t
lay a hand on him! Don’t touch
him!” These pictures would
show that the American crim
inal had been subdued and now
two little fellows could control
him.
They led me to a waiting po
lice car which I noticed was
made in America. Even today
nearly all vehicles in use have
been .made in America — old
makes of course, but they try to
keep them running.
When we arrived at the prison
I was stripped — my clothes
were torn off me and searched
again. Then they gave me back
my shirt, trousers and shoes,
without laces. I was then taken
by the back of the neck by a big
fellow who proceeded to push,
shove and half carry me to a cell
door, where with one final shove
he sent me sprawling into the
darkened cell. I surely would
have landed on my face were it
not for a Chinese prisoner who
caught me and placed me gent
ly beside him. This was to be
my home for the next.year-.and-
a-half — the first of a long line
of cells I was to occupy.
Let me describe a typical cell.
It was six feet by four and one-
half feet, about the size of an
apartment house elevator. I oc
cupied it with four'other pris
oners, all Chinese. I nicknamed
the room, “The pigsty,” but ac
tually my father wouldn’t keep
his pigs in the: filthy, maggoty
place. The lack of sanitation was
beyond description. There I was
to sit on the bare floor — stif
ling hot in the summer and un
bearably cold in the winter —
not allowed to make the slight
est movement, even to brushing
a fly or bug off my face.
During the first few days of
my confinement I kept wonder
ing to myself why I had been
arrested. Was I to be shot any
minute? What had I done? Was
I the only American priest ar
rested or were they all picked
up? These questions and the
entire short five years of com
munist domination, of China
kept going through my mind.
How had it happened? What
did we do wrong? Were we too
complacent?
Only five years earlier I had a
busy, steadily growing semi
nary, the Church in China was
progressing, the future was pro
mising. Now in five short years,
it was all over. Catholic church
es and mission property taken
over by the government; native
seminaries and convents closed;
priests and nuns imprisoned,
tortured, expelled or executed.
The reality of it was all ago
nizing. Here I was sitting in a
dingy cell, not even allowed to
talk to my fellow prisoners. We
had to sit straight from morning
until night. In the heat of the
day and without sufficient air I
became drowsy and occasionally
nodded my head only to be se-
• verely scolded by guards. Since
I’ve come home . people have
asked me how we managed t?
lie down at night to sleep in a
cell so small. Of course we could
never lie down, we had to sleep
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sitting . with our heads against
the wall. And from the mark on
the wall behind the head of each
prisoner you could tell the
length of time he had been
there.
Two months after my arrest,
before the interrogation period
began, the so-called judge ask
ed me if I had any questions
about my arrest. I pretended to
misunderstand his question and
asked him instead if I could
have my breviary. I explained
what it was and he assured me
he would try to get it for me if
I cooperated. A few days later I
asked him about the beviary and
he said the head of the prison
would not allow me to have my
glasses — so that was that.
I then asked him for another
favor. I explained to him that as
a Catholic I firmly believed in
God and future reward and pun
ishment and that since I was an
old man, death might come to
me at anytime and I would con
sider it a great favor to have a
priest of any nationality at my
death or when death was appar
ent.
I assured him that we would
not even talk to one another and
the guards could be present at
all times. His eyes grew red with
anger and then, after thinking
for a couple of minutes, he told
me: “You just tell us about all
your friends — and you’ll be
out of here in very short time.”
You see, they try to turn ev
erything to their advantage by
deceit. When I refused to give
them any information on my
friends, they threatened death
directly and indirectly thereaf
ter.
From my first few months in
a Red prison I soon learned of
the diabolical methods the com
munists have of obtaining infor
mation. They turn son against
father, mother against child and
husband against wife. If I lived
in a communist country, I
would not tell my own mother
everything that was on my mind
—not that I could ever suspect
her—but I would have to con
sider how much mental and
physical torture she could bear
under Red questioning. And
questioned she’d surely be.
(Father McCormack’s next ar
ticle will deal with his trials
and interrogations.)
BISHOP NAMED
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DETROIT — Auxiliary Bish
op John A. Donovan of Detroit
has been named Vicar General
of this Archdiocese. At the same
time, Msgr. Bernard Kearns was
named Chancellor, and Msgr.
John A. Weier was named Vice
Chancellor.
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