IMPRISONMENT OF PASTORS
+ PROTEST IN GERMANY AIiRESTS FOR DISOBEYING DECREES (Received November 28, 7 p.m.) BERLIN, November 26. The Church of St. Emmaus, the largest in Berlin, was filled to overflowing at a service of intercession for the 146 Protestant clergymen who are imprisoned for disobedience of official decrees, which they consider to constitute an illegitimate interference with religion. Three hundred pastors from all parts of Germany testified to the general indignation. The sermon referred to efforts made to induce those imprisoned to recant under promises of release if they agreed not to oppose the Government in future. It was announced that more than 700 pastors and laymen were arrested in a single day. Thirty were ordered not to preach and 50 were expelled from their parishes. CATHOLIC ORGANISATION BANNED GERMAN POLICE ACTION (Received November 28, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, November 27. The police have banned the Young Catholics' Union and also a school children's organisation, alleging that they are hostile to the State.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22262, 29 November 1937, Page 11
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