WAR ON RELIGION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19831, 20 January 1930, Page 9

WAR ON RELIGION.

OKBCI BELLS BEING MELTED DOWN.

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RIGA, January 17

Tkt it feKribed as the biggest bell mm bo* mmif the «3to» bell at fM TwiMs Meaastery, 40 milei from Wmm, ias b**B taken down, in ac•HtoM wita the Soviet campaign to wi tor* eamek bells for industrial •bssm m part ef its anti-God policy. UiiH iaeaes thick. It is not the fcRNt be! ever east, as the Russians mh m weighing 193 tons for the Isatt,b«t it fell during the hoisting, mi m MHMaed.

Tfcwnjj of bells have been dis■HtfW ia tie last few weeks, under m ween mm. of the Anti-God Soci*T. Tit Beriet has issued a decree if—i lag toeal authorities to iuaugu- ***» WI faads and superintend the ■"•if •pcrationa. Tit Strict authorities, in order to «*■»* tfct impression that the antiis directed only against «■*■•, las begun closing syna- £(** ted ssaaqmet on a large scale, "•y <aaaet sequestrate bells in theee ."■•ththatt begun an intensive raid"f tf tsadfettieks, and also sentenced J***"**" ia Petrozavodsk for per"■■l • Jewisk religious rite at the •"■■* »f Hebrew parents. The Presi- *•• «f tie Leningrad Soviet dosed -*•■•* Lsalagrad Choral Synagogue, f* Utters* Caoreh, the Evangelist *■*«■% sa| four others ia the centre «•!•%, {« pritT to eon vert them 2»**i ««d anti-God elubt for solchildren, and workJ"" « kas alee decreed the removal *■•» froa ehurchvards, and cemeJJL"*»P. announcing that these of tons of cast-iron.'' J*"*"*** reports from Moscow deZl** 1 Jlan «? promises a "record £?* •» **« anti-God front" since of church treasures in

Soviet has also dejTJ** re»oTal of the bells of the T*»«t Istae'i Orthodox Cathedral, *- - mm «**wt be shifted whol«, are sawing them to they hang. They are exjrir.yflm v w ' of pure copper -