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By Father Patrick O'Connor, S.S.C.
MACAO: A communist sentry stands about fifty yards down the road from the arched barrier gate, Porta do Cerco, that opens from Portuguese -ruled Macao into communistruled China. He wears a khaki cap and jacket, dark -blue trousers and rubber shoes. He carries o rifle. "Don't stand in the open gateway," a Portuguese police officer warns me. "If you try to take a photograph he will shoot." On the other side of the Duck Canal, the only human being visible is another sentry patrolling the path along the marshy land. When he sees two priests standing on the Macao side, he moves towards a round concrete pillbox to scrutinise us through his binoculars. Every night people risk their lives to escape from that other world, only a stone's throw away, into this one. One can meet them any
morning along the streets of Macao, in the yard of the Jesuits' Casa Ricci or around the office of Father Lancelot M. Rodriguez, director of Catholic Relief ServicesNational Catholic Welfare Conference here. If the refugees have reached Macao during the previious night, they will usually be barefooted and in patched clothing. If one sees them later in the day, or during the following week, they can be recognised by their new rubber shoes and the clothing issued to them by the Portuguese officials or relief agencies. Some of it has come frors C.R.S.-
nights when the sea around Macao is very cold. Most of the refugees escape by boat-either on a sampan (rowing boat) or on a fishing junk with sails and perhaps a motor. The father of a family of five who came by rowboat ht recently had a serious stomach operation. Possibly his convalescence gave him a chance to prepare without arousing suspicion. He rowed frantically all night to bring his family to safety. They reached Macao, but his surgical wound was ripped open by the effort and he died in a Macao hospital. If the communists in a patrol boat intercept an escaping junk, they first use a grappling hook to halt it. Two small junks were escaping, with a total of 27 persons, when a communist patrol boat overtook them. (Continued on Back Page.)
BILLY BRINKEN, aged 9, is a patient in the Daly River Mission Hospital. He keeps a wary eye on that needle while a nurse trained by the Sisters prepares to give him an injection. The national appeal will help keep this hospital going. Billy is not really worried he's got hold of Sister's hand. Sister is a member of the Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.
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letter read at the opening here of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
"Today, man penetrating into space beyond the earth laces there as here the moire between good and evil," the Queen said. "It is a choice which faces society and individuals and so long as we stand in the Christian faith it need not overwhelm us. The Christian Churches are answering the challenge of our times with the call for unity. Only by drawing near to God can we draw nearer to each
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Few With Permits Even the simplest rubber or cloth shoes seem to be extremely scarce in communist -ruled China today. Cloth is rationed, the allowance varying from about one and a half to two and a half yards a year for all needs. A small minority of refugees come down the road with permits and pass under The Pora do Cerco. For every ten who are given permission to leave China, thousands escape by sea, under toyer of darkness. Some of them swim to Macao. I met two boys agc.1 16 who walked all of one day and part of another to reach a point from which they could swim to freedom. They waited until two o'clock in the morning to make the plunge. They had no idea of how long they swam. Belonging to a fishing village, they had been swimmers from childhood. Most of those who swim to Macao take wooden blocks er inflated bladders or inner tubes to keep them afloat if they become' exhausted. Many swam across on winter
Edinburgh: Queen Eliza Beth welcomed current moves towards Christian Unity in a
other." Lord Mansfield, the Lord High Commissioner, who represents the Queen at the General Assembly of Scot-
Barefoot and in patched clothing, a group of refugees from Red China sit in the shade of a large tree in Portuguese-ruled Macao. In the background a priest official of Catholic Relief Services-NCWC, supervises the distributica of surplus food. Each night many people risk their lives to escape from famine -ridden communist China. Some swim to Macao, others come by boat, and a few slip across the border on foot. Those caught are ::.-altcnced to labour camps for as long as two and a half years.
land's Presbyterian State Church said that the "new climate of charity" between different Christian denominatiOns means that Christians of various faiths are able to look on each other with, friendship and sympathy rather than with suspicion and apprehension. He welcomed the recent visit to the Pope of the retiring Moderator of the General Assembly;' Dr, Archibald Craig, but he added that Pre:Thyte7iana need have "no qualms" about this event. The new climate of charity does not mean that the Scottish Church is expected to abandon or even to alter "by dhe jot or tittle" the practices of its beliefs, he said. "I can say that from personal knowledge of him (Dr. Craig), I am convinced
Advice was received yesterday that all donations to the Darwin Native Mission Fund will be tax-free. This was stated by Rt. Rev. Monsignor A. Thomas, National Director of the Pontifical Aid Societies. Donations to the five principal mission stations in the Territory-Bathurst Island, Melville Island, Port Keats, Santa Theresa and Daly River-are already accepted as tax deductions. This also applies to the Darwin War Memorial Cathedral. Monsignor Thomas, who is directing the appeal on its national front, said that all money contributed to this appeal would be allocated to the Native Missions, unless specifically given for the Cathedral. See Mission Story and Pictures, Pages Four and Five. he is neither himself prepared nor would dream for a moment of asking you to accept any of the dogma or ritual of the Church of Rome," he added. Their faith could hardly be shaken or undermined by the mere exchange of courtesies between the heads of churches, he said. While rejoicing at this new-found sense of friendship, they must not neglect the task of preserving and ensuring the continued progress of the structure and integrity of their own church. Dr. Craig himself, recalling the visit to Pope John, said this most publicised event in his year of office was undertaken not on a personal wish but on the unanimous advice of three committees of the General Assembly. If the visit had helped to set a pattern of courtesy, sincerity and charity, "then surely in God's guidance, in God's way, in God's tirrse,.it shall not have been entirely fruitless," he added.
Clergy Conference The Quarterly Conference of the Clergy of the Metropolitan Ares will be held on Friday, June 15, commencing at 10 aan. The conference will be held in the Chapter Hall, Vitoria Avenue, Perth, and will be presided over by His Grace the Archbishop.
Adult Confirmation The Sacrament of Confirmation will be administered by HLs Grace the Archbishop to adults on Friday, June 15, in St. Mary's Cathedral. Intending recipients of the Sacrament should be present at the Cathedral at 7 p.m. It is also required that they possess a Confintration Card duly stamped and signed by their parish priest. Persons rat in possession of such a card cannot receive the Sacrament on this occasion. .41414.0.11.M.4.44,0.40414,1,44