CRUSHING CHRISTIANITY
A SOVIET DESIGN. PATRIARCH TO DIE? j (“Times” Service.) LONDON, April 18. e ' The “Times’s” Riga correspondent H states : The Soviet carefully is staging [_ the trial of Patriarch Tikhon. The Red Primate Antonin has circularised all e the Bishops ordering, them to summon d a local conference and demand Tikhon’s, degradation and excommunication as r an enemy to the. Soviet Government a established by the grace of God. Priests _ failing to declare hostility to ' the ‘ Patriarch and sympathy with the So--1 vlet will be dismissed The “Daily Mail’s” Warsaw corres- ® pondent says: The conviction and ex--1 ecution of Tikhon is considered cery tain. Krylenko, the Public Prosecu- *• tor, has issued a warning that foreign y intervention, even supplication for a A pardon, will incense the Soviet, which S is determined to crush > Christianity in f Russia, as an interference with the - Soviet regime. 7 7 V \
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1923, Page 5
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