RIOTING IN POLAND
Church-State Dispute
(Rec. 10 p.m.) WARSAW. June 2. Police have arrested about 100 persons after a riot over a religious issue in the west Polish ‘extile town of Zielone Gora, on Monday, informed sources said tonight. Four persons were seriously injured, including a militiaman with a fractured skull. Dozens of police and rioters suffered lesser injuries. The riot began when civic officials arrived to seal off rooms in a building in the town’s central square, which was used by the Roman Catholic Church. An informed source said the authorities were considering putting on trial the priest of the parish. The authorities say he preached a sermon in his church last Sunday calling on parishioners to protect the building, and it is alleged he said that the Bishop of Gorzow Monsienor Wilhelm Pluta, approved this course of action. The authorities regarded this as direct incitement by the priest for the happenings of the following day, the source said. The building—over which 5000 persons demonstrated and fought the police—was the property of the German Protestant Ghurch before World War 11.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29222, 4 June 1960, Page 13
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