PRIEST SHOT AT ALTAR
OUTRAGE IN POLAND COMMUNIST'S PREMEDITATED CRIME Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. March. 1. (Received March 2, at 1.5 p.m.) The correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ in Warsaw says:—During a children’s service in the parish church at Lubon, in Western Poland, a Communist agitator named Nowak, who lived for 12 years in Russia, fired several revolver, shots at the priest, Father Streich, as he approached' the pulpit to deliver his sermon. The wounded priest retreated to the altar and Nowak killed him at close range and then entered the pulpit arid shouted: “ Leave -this place. I killed the priest for your liberty. Long Jive Communism!” Two children were injured in th# panic, in which adults seized the murderer, who was almost lynched before the arrival of the police. ‘ Nowak said the crime was premedi- • tated because of Father Streich’s antiCommunist activities. Thirty suspected Communists, who were Nowak’s , friends, have been arrested.
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Evening Star, Issue 22896, 2 March 1938, Page 10
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152PRIEST SHOT AT ALTAR Evening Star, Issue 22896, 2 March 1938, Page 10
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