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VIETNAMESE CATHOLICS FLEE REDS

INDO-CHINA -- Photo shows some of the thousands of

Catholic refugees who have fled their homes in Viet Nam

since the northern part of their country was taken over

by the Communists under the terms of the Geneva Pact.

The refugees are crowded in the French ship "Jules

Verne." One of the more fortunate escapees carries all

her possessions in baskets on her head. At the recent

27th national convention of the National Council of

Catholic Women in Boston, Mass., Msgr. Edward E.

Swanstrom, executive director of War Relief Services-

National Catholic Welfare Conference, pointed out that

since the Geneva Truce some half a million Vietnamese

had chosen to leave their homes rather than remain

under Communist rule.

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