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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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