SOVIET TERRORISM
CHURCH STOLEN FOR CLUB. (Times Cables.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 28. The Times’s Riga correspondent states that after a three days’ battle the O.G.P.W. Police arrested the Orthodox priest, Koleroff, and seventeen believers, at Kimry, eighty miles from Moscow. Th© Soviet decreed the closure of the church in order to convert the building into a leather workers’ club, but when the officials appeared in order to carry out the formal confiscation, they found the doors barred and locked by thirty locks. They attempted to force the doors, but the believers, armed ■with sticks, beat them off. According to the official Soviet account, a crowd of two thousand gathered round the church and routed the local police. The Chairman of the local .Soviet appeared with a bodyguard of Soviet officers, but they were all captured, and thrashed. Police reinforcements were drafted in, and met -with a similar fate; and further drafts came in, until th© resistance was overcome, but it took three days to do it.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1929, Page 5
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