STRIKE IN MONASTERY
MONKS READY FOR SIEGE CAIRO, March 5 In spite of a threat of unfrocking, the monks in the monastery near Assiut continued their defiant "stay-in" tactics to-day, stating that they were prepared for a two years' siege. Unfrocking would mean that the monks would be in illegal possession ol' the monastery, and the authorities would then be justified in evicting them by force.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22671, 8 March 1937, Page 12
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66STRIKE IN MONASTERY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22671, 8 March 1937, Page 12
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