MONKS' STAY-IN STRIKE
"PEACE COMMISSION" FAILS MONASTERY TO BE BESIEGED CAIRO, March 4 In connection with the stay-in strike of monks at a monastery near Assiut, Egypt, following the excommunication of a number for disobedience, a force of 250 police were instructed to-day to capture tho monastery. The instructions were to avoid blood--1 shed if possible, but to retaliate if the strikers attacked. The action follows the failure by members of the "Peace Commission" to clVect a compromise after the refusal of the monks to admit them to the monastery. Tho parleys were conducted by shouting conversations to tho monks, who maimed the 15ft. walls. The monks formerly received 6s a month for pocket money but this was recently increased to 30s, whereupon they accumulated savings with which they took pleasure trips to neighbouring Moslem villages. The residents sent an ultimatum that any further visitors would be shot on sight and the monks were forbidden to go to the villages, resulting in the stay-in strike and a demand for the ( removal of the Abbot.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22670, 6 March 1937, Page 15
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