STAY-IN METHODS
EX-COMMUNICATION DEFIED
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 2, 2.20 p.m.) CAIRO, March 1. . I The oddest stay-in strike on record i 3 in progress at a monastery near Assuan. Following the ex-communica-tion of a number of disobedient monks, the Coptic patriarch ordered their evacuation. The monks locked the doors, raised the drawbridge, and de- ! fied efforts to remove them. -It is suggested that troops should besiege the monastery. The monks have | provisions for two years. The monks allege that the abbot's maladministration has reduced theonce flourishing monastery to insolvency. Police efforts to enter the monastery were unsuccessful. I , ...
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 10
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102STAY-IN METHODS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 10
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