’Provocatory fabrication’
;! The Soviet Union Embassy >; in Wellington has supplied a i statement issued in Moscow • which says, in part; “Mikhail Tandctnik, chairsoman of the board of the : Moscow Central Synagogue,! has given to the Novosti! ; Press Agency the following statement for genera! circulation: “The information agencies; of a number of Western countries have spread a re- ’ port to the effect that alleg-i edly on March 29. a group; of militiamen broke into the' prayer hall of the Moscow;
j Central Synagogue, interi rupted prayers, and drove 1 1250 believers out into the ! street. •I “On behalf of the syna- ? gogue board and our belie- , I vers I am authorised to i state that the report is a, p crude provacatory fabric-1 • ation. From the beginning, of! ■Passover . . . the synagogue! > has been holding services! runhindered, and the believers attend regularly. There ■ has been no interference /from the authorities either >i on March 29 or anv other ■iday...’ s
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33813, 9 April 1975, Page 16
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158’Provocatory fabrication’ Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33813, 9 April 1975, Page 16
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