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CHINESE REDS BEAT U.S. BISHOP 2D TIME; Assault Follows New Refusal by Church to Accede to 'Extortion' Demands Area Close to Hong Kong 15,500,000 Deaths Laid to Reds

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HONG KONG, Dec. 18 An official Roman Catholic spokesman said today that a 56-year-old Bishop, the Most Rev. Adolph Paschang of Kongmoon, Kwangtung Province, had been beaten again there following the church's refusal to pay "ransom money" to' the Chinese Communists as a means of saving him from the violence of the intensified "land reform" in that southeastern coastal province.

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