MONKS IN MONASTERY ORGANISE ODDEST STAY-IN STRIKE YET
CAIRO, March 1. The oddest stay-in strike on record at a monastery near Assuit followed the exconvmunication of a number of disobedient monks. The Coptic patriarch ordered the evacuation of the monks, and the locking of the doors and the raising of the drawbridge, which was defied. ■ It is suggested that troops besiege the monastery. The monks have pirovisions for two years. The . Ooptics allege that the abbot's maladministration reduced a once flourishing'nwmaatery to insolvency. Police efforts to enter the monastery were unsuccessful. — II M II M i: !■ II — II 1 1I ■! II — II — II — I' '■ MW
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 40, 3 March 1937, Page 5
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