Communist editor is in E. Germany
NZPA-Reuter East Berlin An East German spokesman has confirmed that the editor of a British miners’ newspaper is seeking asylum in East Germany. The spokesman said that Mr Maurice Jones, aged 33, communist editor of the ’‘Yorkshire Miner,” the official newspaper of the Yorkshire coalminers, had arrived at a reception centre at Fuerstenwalde, east of Berlin, at least two weeks ago. In a letter to the Yorkshire miners’ leader, Mr Ar-
thur Scargill, posted in Fuerstenwalde on July 7 and made public in England on Monday, Mr Jones said the British police had threatened his family during question- : ing after he had been arrested in a strike picket line in London. The case has received wide publicity in Britain, but Mr Jones’s arrival in East . Germany with his wife and two-year-old daughter has not been mentioned in the Government-controlled press in East Germany.
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