Bishop will go to Red city

BISHOP Ro, Vicar Apostolic of Seoul, is flying back to Korea from France with a determination to get back into the Red-held city—and to take the consequences if the Communists catch him.
" If necessary," said the Bishop,
" I shall wear civilian clothes and go into hiding.
"I must be ready to suffer and, if need be, to die."
Forty-eight-year-old Mgr. RoKorea's first native Bishop—was in Paris, after a Holy Year visit to Rome, when the Communists crossed the 38th Parallel.
Priests in. Seoul
Speaking of the missionaries arrested in North Korea in 1947 after the Reds had taken over. the Bishop said that Bishop Francis Hong. Vicar Apostolic of Pyongyang (Jergo), the Communist capital, is a prisoner with all his priests. The Communists, he added, have been particularly brutal in their attacks on the Church.
In Seoul there are, he said, 86 Korean priests. The whole vicariate has 200, and the eight missions have 300,000 Catholic laity. An amateur radio station operator in Chicago, Mr. M. R. Broderick. has given the Columban Fathers' headqUarters the first authoritative news of C:olumban missionaries in Korea since the invasion began. He picked up a message from Fr. Bernard Geraghty, the Columban superiqr in Korea.
Six of the society's priests. said , Fr. Geraghty, are in Red-held territory, including Mgr. Thomas Quinlan, Irish-born Prefect Apostolic of C.hoonchun.
No news
Fr. Geraghty said. nothing about a report that Mgr. Quinlan had been wounded.
Twenty-nine other Columban priests are south of the Red line.
No news has been received anywhere about Bishop Patrick Byrne, Apostolic Delegate to Korea, who when the invasion began was in Seoul with his secretary, Fr. William Booth.