COPTIC MONKS
“STAY-IN, STRIKE.” POLICE TO CAPTURE MONASTERY. CAIRO, March 4. A force of 250 police has been instructed to capture the Coptic, monastery, avoiding bloodshed if possible, but retaliating if the stay-in monks atTack. This action follows failure to reach a compromise. Members of a “Peace Commission,” after the refusal of admission to the monastery, conducted a shouted conversation with the monks, manning the fifteen.feet walls. The monks formerly received Gs monthly as pocket money, and this was recently increased to 30s, upon which they accumulated their savings, with which they made pleasure trips to neighbouring Moslem villages. The residents issued an ultimatum, that any further visitors would be shot at sight. The monks thereupon were forbiaden to go to the village, resulting in the “stay-in” strike, and the demand for the removal of the Abbot.
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Grey River Argus, 6 March 1937, Page 11
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137COPTIC MONKS Grey River Argus, 6 March 1937, Page 11
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