CLERGYMEN ASKED TO BE INTERNEES
(Received November 19, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 18. “A man’s age does not matter providing he's tough,” said the Bishop of Fulham (the Rt. Rev. S. B. Batty) outlining a scheme to ask a number of English clergy to volunteer for internment in Germany throughout the war in order to minister to the spiritual needs of .British war prisoners and other Englishmen and women interned. Bishop Batty, whose diocese includes North and Central Europe, returned from Holland, where he prepared the groundwork of the scheme, which admittedly means a tremendous sacrifice.
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Southland Times, Issue 23978, 20 November 1939, Page 7
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