Even in such severe conditions, the teachers still kept teaching the children including Mary. In addition, they demanded that the children should set high standards on themselves and never give up. In Mary’s impression, Weihsien Internment Camp was not a place glutted with violent, bloody or other scary things. “Maybe some awful things happen. But the teachers were always protecting us. They never told us children about the bad things.” Mary said that she once went to find, many years later after being rescued, the teachers who had been in the internment camp, and got to know that the teachers had been praying every night, fearing that the Japanese soldiers would assemble everyone and shot them to death. However, the children were nicely protected because the teachers never said a single word to them about the fear and scare of death.

　　A Report on Wang Chenghan and Mary in The Philadelphia Inquirer in the United States with a title of A Pilgrimage of Gratitude (Shot by Qi Xiang)

　　“When in Weihsien Internment Camp, what frightened and scared me most was the Japanese people’s dogs’ killing our cat.” Mary still felt very sad when talking about that even after a gap of over seventy years. The Japanese guards raised some big wolfhounds in Weihsien Internment Camp. The wolfhounds often followed the Japanese soldiers to go on patrol in the camp, which made the teenage girl Mary very frightened. Back then, the principal in Mary’s school raised a kitten called Victoria. Mary described it as a “very soft, very docile and lovely” cat. The kitten often kept her company to go to sleep. One night, not having fallen into sleep, Mary heard the footsteps of the Japanese soldiers on patrol and the sounds of the wolfhounds outside the window. All of a sudden, the kitten’s shrill screams were heard just from outside the house. That is Victoria! The wolfhounds assaulted and killed it! Mary was too scared to make any single sound. She cuddled up in a heap on her bed. “I think they cleared up the bloodstains before the morning came for fear that we children should see it.” Mary said in sadness that the incident kept everybody sad for quite a long time.

　　When reminiscing about the then experiences in Weihsien Internment Camp, Mary and Wang Chenghan hold their hands excitedly. (Shot by Qi Xiang)