RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 6

RUSSIA

WAR ON CHRISTIANITY,

STAGING TIKHON’S TRIAL,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

LONDON, April 18,

(Received April 19, at 11.45 a.m.)

Tho ‘ Times’s ’ Riga correspondent states that tho Soviet is carefully staging tho trial of the Patriarch Tikhon. Antonin has circularised all the bishops ordering them to summon a local conference, and demand Tikhon’s degradation and ex-communication as an enemy to tho Soviet Government, established by tho grace’ of God. All priests failing to declare their hostility to tho Patriarch and their sympathy with tho Soviet will ho dismissed.— ‘ Tunes.'

Tho ‘ Daily Mail’s ’ Warsaw correspondent says that tho conviction and execution of Tikhon is considered certain. Krylenko, tho Public Prosecutor, lias issued a warning that foreign intervention, even supplication, for Tikhon’s pardon will incense tho Soviet, which is determined to crash Christianity in Russia as an interference with the Soviet regime.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

THE RED ARMY,

SOVIET KEEPS DISCIPLINE,

MOSCOW, April 17

(Received April 19, at 11.35 a.ra.)

Tho revolutionary tribunal in Pctrograd sentenced to death five staff officers of tho Red array 'who were accused of spying on behalf of a foreign Power. Tho sentence was immediately carried out.—A. and N.Z. Cable.