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DOMINICANS RETURN FROM CHINA

SAN FRANCISCO -- Two American Dominican priests, recently released

by the Chinese Communists after spending more than two years in

prison, wave happily on their arrival here from

Hong Kong on board the liner President Van Buren. They are the Rev.

James G. Joyce, O. P., 56, of Clinton, Mass. (left); and the Rev.

Joseph E. Hyde, O. P., 47, of Lowell, Mass. They were met at the docks

by a welcoming group of Dominicans including the Rev. Richard E. Va-

hey, O. P., director of Dominican foreign missions. The priests, who

lived in seven-by-four-foot cells, said their pri-

son life in Chian was very severe. They said they were subjected to

frequent cruel "interrogations" and were sometimes beaten. A third

Dominican, the Rev. Frederick A. Gordon, O. P., of Somerset, O.,

who was freed with them, was such in poor physical condition

as a result of his imprisonment that he had to remain in a Hong Kong

hospital.

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