RED RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 17394, 2 July 1920, Page 6

RED RUSSIA

A PITEOUS APPEAL BT THE BISHOP OF ODESSA. The following is from 'The Gospel in Russia.' the official organ of the Russian Evangelisation Society: " Platon, Bishop of Kherson and Odessa, in Eussia, doyen of the Bishops of the Russian Church, sends his fraternal greetings and earnest supplication. The wrath of God which has fallen upon us continues to bruise unfortunate Russia. Tho intense sufferings of our Christian, peoples have reached their utmost limits. We are perishing. Human language lacks words to describe the vastness of our misery and the horror of our present tragedy. History knows not its like. Half of the professional classes is exterrninatfcd. Russian womanhood has been profaned.' Children have been inhumanly treated. Russia uncW Bolshevik rule k like Dante's Inferno—that land of torture and torment—where even the Chinese executioners, whom Trotsky leads, are weary. "I plead Srith you all, my brothers, to uphold and comfort a great people which 13 dying. Even if you cannot save it, help it by your prayers. Ask God to save this unhappy land. Call upon all faithful to pray with you. Beseech your compatriots to come to our help (Luke x., 33). Ask your help societies to extend their prompt aid. Ask the women of your church to give their pity to our Russian women; to wipe away the tears of the mothers, sisters, and daughters of tfcoso cruelly tortured by these monsters of hell in human form. Tell your young men and your children that tney urge their fathers to come to the rescue of our miserable children, exterminated without pity by these brutes. A new misery has lately fallen upon Russiafamine. TJiis fertile land, the former <ranary of the world, has become under "Bolshevik rule the land of famine. People are dying from exhaustion. Epidemics are spreading. Come to cur rescue! In the name of tho Russian people I thank vou in advance for your response to the appeal of thoso who are ready to die.—Metropolitan Platon." SOLDIERS* SETTLEMENT [Per United Prsss Association.] GISBOKSB, July 2. The Government have purchased Mr J. Homebush property, comprising 327 acres, four miles from Gisborne, for soldier settlement at £IOO per acre.