PROTEST MEETINGS

Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 12

PROTEST MEETINGS

HELD THROUGHOUT POLAND REMOVAL OF MARSHAL PILSUDSKI’S COFFIN RESENTED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WARSAW. June 25. Mass meetings are being held throughout Roland to protest against Archbishop Sapieha’s removal of Marshal Pilsudski’s coffin. Fifty thousand fofmer followers of Pilsuclski demanded that the Cathedral should bo declared State property and the archbishop punished. It was also demanded that the concordat between the Vatican and Poland should be revised to reduce the church’s powers. [A message received from Cracow (Poland) on June 25 stated that violent demonstrations were staged outside the Palace of the Papal Nuncio when thousands of people demanded the immediate dismissal of the Archbishop of Cracow (Monsignor Sapieha) for removing the heavy silver coffin containing the remains of Marshal Pilsudski from the Tomb of Kings in the cathedral in defiance of the President of Poland. The coffin was removed when the archbishop learned that King Carol of Rumania was to place a wreath on Marshal Pilsudski’s tomb. It was understood that the archbishop’s decision was due, not only to the fact that the king was not a Catholic, but also to his private life.]