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AMERICAN DOMINICANS LEAVE CHINA
HONG KONG -- THREE AMERICAN DOMINICAN PRIESTS CROSS
FREEDOM BRIDGE FROM RED CHINA WHERE THEY WERE KEPT
UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN FOOCHOW, FUKIEN PROVINCE. THEY
WERE AMONG THE FIRST GROUP OF AMERICAN CLERGYMEN FREED
BY THE COMMUNISTS UNDER THE GENEVA AGREEMENTS. GREET-
ING THEM ON THEIR ARRIVAL HERE WAS AN ITALIAN PRIEST,
FATHER AMBROSE POLETTI, LEFT. HE IS ESCORTING TO FREE-
DOM, LEFT TO RIGHT, FATHERS JOSEPH E. HYDE OF LOWELL,
MASS.; JAMES G. JOYCE OF CLINTON, MASS.; AND FREDERICK
A. GORDON OF SOMERSET, O. AT THE FAR RIGHT IS THE
POLICE SUPERINTENDENT WHO HAS CHARGE OF THE BRITISH
SIDE OF THE BORDER. THE PRIESTS ACCUSED THEIR COMMUNIST
CAPTORS OF HALF-TRUTHS AND LIES. THEY WERE PALE AND
HAD LOST WEIGHT BUT WERE IN GOOD SPIRITS.
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