Foreign News: Witnesses

For a solemn convention of prayer and peace talk, 10,000 of Jehovah’sserious-minded Witnesses gathered last week in Leicester. Before theconvention was over the Witnesses had added grounds for their pacifism.They complained to police that: 1) the local Home Guard had laid down asooty smoke screen over their campground; 2) “men in khaki uniformbroke into the grounds, causing damage, beating one of Jehovah’sWitnesses and knocking him unconscious.”