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Chinese halt clergyman's services

Friday 28 August 1998 00:02 BST
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CHINESE POLICE prevented a defiant Protestant minister from holding services in his popular underground church yesterday after he conducted a mass baptism of 300 in a factory pool on 1 August.

The Rev Yuan Xiangchen was stopped by police as he left his suburban Peking home.

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