FASTING MONK IS MOVED BY TROOPS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31092, 22 June 1966, Page 13

FASTING MONK IS MOVED BY TROOPS

(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) HUE (South Vietnam), June 21. Heavily-armed paratroopers today moved the fasting anti-Buddhist leader, Thich Tri Quang, from a hospital bed to the headquarters of the national police chief here.

Two aides—one a young girl—supported the emaciated monk as he was led to a car outside the hospital.

before it drove away between jeeploads of soldiers. The police said that Tri Quang, who is aged 44, was not formally under arrest and that he was being moved to protect him from possible Viet Cong attack. But there was speculation that he would be flown to Saigon later today. Lost 241 b The monk began his fast on June 8 and said he would continue it until Washington withdrew its support from the military junta. Tri Quang has already lost almost 241 b. In Saigon, meanwhile, embattled Buddhist leaders appealed to the International

Red Cross for help, claiming that a critical health situation existed in the Saigon pagoda compound where Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky’s forces had bottled them up, says the Associated Press.

Two glass flasks of glucose solution for intravenous feeding were handed into the car

They claimed that one Buddhist had come down with cholera, but the Government said a hospital examination showed no symptoms of the disease.