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Open your account thin Mutual Federal Savings & Loan Association JACKSON 3-8282 205 AUBURN AVENUE, N. E. ATLANTA, GA. Current Dividend Rate 4 Percent Per Annum Each Account Insured Up To $10,000.00 SAVE BY MAIL 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 FIGURE 8 A 9 ICEWSKATING n Monday—Closed 1:00 p. m.-3:30 p. m. 4:30 p. m.-7:00 p. m. — Sunday — 8:15 p. m.-10:45 p. m. Tuesday through Saturday Atlanta Lakewood Park 10:00 a. m.-12:30 p. m. 2:00 p. m.-5:00 p. in. 8:15 p. m.-10:45 p. m. BUCKHEAD KIDDIE KOLLECE DAY NURSERY CE. 7-4007 234 PHARR ROAD. N. E. ATLANTA, GA. For Only $10.00 Per Week, We: 1. Pick your child up in the morning. 2. Drive him home in time for supper. 3. Juice and cookies at mid-morning. 4. A hot lunch at noon. 5. Sleep or nap from 12:30 till 2:30 p. m. 6. All activities supervised by Mrs. Clark, Registered Nurse, State of 7. Pick up children of school age at home — bring to Kiddie Kollege, till school time take to school— pick up from school and bring back to Buckhead Kiddie Kollege, and bring home in evening. We are open until 1 A. M. at night for the convenience of working par ents and folks going out for the eve ning. We enroll children and trans port them to and from the following schools: R. L. HOPE SCHOOL ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GARDEN HILLS SCHOOL CHRIST THE KING SCHOOL JUNIOR LEAGUE SCHOOL OF SPEECH 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 LIBERAL DIVIDENDS ON SAVINGS Savings received by the 10th Earn Dividends for That Month 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 VICAR GENERAL DETROIT — Auxiliary Bish op John A. 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