The Archive · 1925

Religious Troubles in Alsace

Attempt to Expel Nuns from Management of Schools Paris, Apr. 21.

Attempts on the part of the authorities to laicize schools Alsace Lorraine led to serious in-ridents in Grafenstaden, where the municipality decided to replace nuns ty lay teachers. In one school a number of Catholics, armed' with cudgels, occupied the school and barricaded the doors with the object of preventing the ejection of the nuns. A ponse of gendarmes fanied to di lodge the defenders. The classes have been suspended—Reuter.

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