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THÈ CHINA MAIL, MARCH 5, 1937.
ALL CHURCHES, SCHOOLS CLOSED IN RUMANIA DRASTIC STEP TAKEN ON ALLEGED POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
(SPECIAL TO THE “CHINA MAIL”)
Bucharest, To-day.
"The pulpits of some churches, instead of ful- filling their mission of teaching obedience to the law and submission to the authorities, have become platforms of political agitation which are promot- ing dissension.
"THE HOLDING OF POLITICAL DEMONSTRATIONS AND THE ENFLAMING OF POLITICAL GROUPS ONE AGAINST THE OTHER, ARE ACTIVITIES NOT IN KEEPING WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, AND ARE DETRIMENTAL TO THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE.”
EXPULSION ORDER
All students have been ordered to
So declared the Minister. of, schools and churches. Education, Dr. C. Angelescu, în a public address yesterday when the complete closing of all return to their homes, while scholars churches, universities, and high who are two years in arrears with schools in the country was an their examinations are automatical-
ly expelled. nounced.
The Patriarch of the Rumanian They will remain closed, it was revealed, until new laws covering Church was yesterday officially in- education in Rumania come into formed that the Government force..
determined to initiate
Tas
effective This startling action follows the measures to prevent servants of the decision of the Council of Ministers Church from deviating from the re- Trans- that decisive action should be taken ligious field into politics. to stamp out political activity in Ocean.
Operations Against Stay-In Monks
CAIRO, TO-DAY.
THE FACT THAT STAY-IN STRIKES ARE BECOMING THE FASHION, AND THE FACT THAT MONKS IN EGYPT ARE THE LATEST TO ADOPT THIS METHOD OF AIRING THEIR GRIEV- ANCES, HAS NOT SOFTENED THE GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE.
BRITISH ANXIETY Drastic Steps In Pacific?
Monks who had barricaded themselves in an ancient Coptic monastery near Assiut following disagreement with their abbot, are now faced with the prospect of an effort to dislodge them by force.
The Government has ordered – large force of police to attack the monastery and break the strike.
British shipping circles, I learn, view the Pacific trade position with increasing anxiety Empire ship- For several weeks past the monks ping is; it is recognised, waging a have refused to admit leaders of the desperate and losing fight with its Coptic Church or the civil authori heavily subsidised foreign rivals, ties. writes Hector Bywater in the “Dai- ly Telegraph
All they wanted was that the abbot should be dismissed, and re- placed by another.
Recently strengthened, the build-
al
Already the Australian and New Zealand Governments have found it necessary to impose a conditional ban on American traffic in the Tasing resembles a fortress and is sur“ man Sea, where the Matson liners, rounded by a 15-foot wall-Reuter. built and operated largely by Unit cent of the tonnage in the Japan- ed States Government funds, are India trade, and 79 per cent. of that edging out the old-established in the Japan-Australia trade is pire limes.
ready under her flag. Still more serious, because on an
In his despatch above, the Syd- infinitely larger scale, is Japanese ney Correspondent of The Daily competition in the Eastern, Far Telegraph reveals how Japanese Eastern, and Australian trades. In ships are cutting still further into the December 30 issue of “The Daily the Australia trade. The British Telegraph" I gave details of the new Government is known to take a very legislation which is designed to in-serious view of the situation, and it crease Japan's mercantile •ton- is understood that the whole que nage from 4,000,000 to 8,000, ticn is to be discussed fully 000 tons in a few
the Dominion Governments
nce next May
I pointed out that the prop
of Japan's tonnage the world'
total, already twice her
of trade to world
tually become four times her share of world trad
Big Depreciation
subsidies, Japa