ANTI-RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN
PREPARATIONS BY RUSSIAN SOVIET. Riga, November 26. The Soviet Government is apparently preparing a fresh anti-religious campaign. Agents of the Cheka (Secret Police), accompanied, by soldiers, invaded premises in Moscow occupied by Dominican Nuns, when they were just retiring to bed. The terrified nuns were subjected to interrogation for seven hours. The Mother Superior and a number Sisters were arrested and imprisoned, and a priest and many of his parishioners were subsequently arrested. —Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 54, 28 November 1923, Page 7
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76ANTI-RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 54, 28 November 1923, Page 7
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