MINERS SHOT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 223, 1 September 1936, Page 5

MINERS SHOT

REBELS' ACTION MINES SEIZED. Dr. Lang Asks For Prayers For Spanish Clergy ht oiuß ■■ '• SUFFERING FOR FAITH. Press Association—Copyright. Received 11 a.m. To-day. London, August 31. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang, concurs with the advisability of keeping the fire in Spain within its borders. He profoundly sympathises with the Spanish Catholic Church's terrible ordeal.

He adds that it is doubtless that church may have grievous imperfections and has fallen short in its trust for the people, but let any Church without imperfections cast the first stone. Prayers, he continued, must go out for the clergy of religious communities and nuns suffering for their faith in a country containing some of the world's noblest churches. A message from Lisbon states that the Marquis of Quintana has been in touch with the Burgos Junta, and declares that private interests in the Rio Tinto mines will be fully respected even in the event of confiscation. The Burgos' Junta has requestioned all minerals from the mines at average market prices. The rebels captured 67 miners, while escaping with fourteen lorry loads of dynamite, and executed them all, sparing only one lad on account of his youth. Six thousand miners have returned to work under a British engineer. The discipline is excellent.