WOMEN ARE SLAIN
BUCHAREST, April 21. Reports reaching here from Rumanian villages on the Ukrainian border to-day said a number of women were shot down by Soviet troops in a “ Bloodv Sunday ” while defending their churches.
The report described alleged eyewitness accounts of Soviet churchwrecking activities which were resisted by the villagers. In the Ukniianiau Village of Taslak, across the r:v r from the Rumanian village of K'.tzani, they said, Soviet soldiers attempted to destroy a church and were fared by a crowd of 300 women. Tie soldiers fired their machine guns and killed and wounded several, the reports said. Another report from the Rumanian military post at Mihaiviicazu said the Soviet soldiers “ could be clearly seen ” shootiig down fifteen peasants, including several women, while the latter wore trying to defend the holy cross int ho village square at .Buturanga, where the soldiers were destroying religious emblems.
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Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 17
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