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CHINESE REDS FREE WOMEN MISSIONARIES

HONG KONG -- TWO AMERICAN WOMEN MISSIONARIES FREED

BY COMMUNIST CHINA UNDER THE RECENT GENEVA AGREE-

MENTS READ LETTERS AND CABLES FROM FRIENDS UPON

THEIR ARRIVAL HERE. THEY ARE: DOROTHY MAY

MIDDLETON, 42, A NATIVE OF IOWA (LEFT); AND SARAH

LEE PERKINS, 63, A NATIVE OF TENNILLE, GA. MISS

MIDDLETON WAS A NURSE IN THE SERVICE OF THE MISSION

TO LEPERS OF THE CICERO (ILL.) BIBLE CHURCH, AND

MISS PERKINS SERVED IN CHINA FOR 27 YEARS AS A

MISSIONARY AND NURSE FOR THE PRESBYTERIAN (U.S.A.)

BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. BOTH WERE WORKING AT A

MISSIONARY COLONY FOR LEPER CHILDREN IN LIENHSIEN,

KWANTUNG PROVINCE, WHEN THEY WERE ARRESTED IN

FEBRUARY, 1951, FOR "CONDUCTING SABOTAGE."

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