BOND OF INIQUITY

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 175, 12 April 1923, Page 7

BOND OF INIQUITY

WELDING RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIK PARTY CONDEMNATION OF TIKHON CAMPAIGN AGAINST FREE NATIONAL CHURCH .

BY Telegraph — Press Association. —COPYRIGHT. • London, April 10. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Moscow correspondent soys that the Patriarch Tikhon’s trial, on a charge of inciting tho people against the Soviet and resisting the confiscation of the Church treasure, is a foregone conclusion. He will bo condemned cither to death or prolonged imprisonment. The wild men of the Bolshevik Party consider the trial tho crowning effort' of their campaign against a free National Chilrch. They realise that his condemnation will serve as a bond of iniquity, which will weld the party together and prevent the faint-hoarted from dropping out of. the fight. A Helsingfors message says that, when the Patriarch Tikhon was tola to prepare for trial, he said: “I want no defence but God.” The Soviet promptly denied the existence of God. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

PERSECUTION OF CHURCH ’ • DIGNITARIES INDIGNATION AT WARSAW i • Warsaw, April 10. ' The in.digna.tion against the Soviet’s persecution of the Church dignitaries is at fever pitch. The withdrawal o* the Soviet representatives here is imminent, especially as they assured the Pronrier that Monsignor Budkevitch would' not be executed. —-Aus.-N Z. Cable Assn.

BARRED FROM ENTERING . > AMERICA WIFE OF RUSSIAN OFFICIAL (Rec. April 11, 5.5 p.m.) , Washington, April 10. The 'United States Government has refused) permission for Madame Kahitin, wife of the Soviet Republic’s President, to enter the United States, because of the recent execution of Monsignor Dudkevitch. Madame Ijfalmin had planned an extensive lecture tour in tho United States, the proceeds from which would be used for edftca tiorial purposes in Russia,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.