WAR ON RELIGION
SOVIET’S LATEST OUTRAGE (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn.—Copyright.) MOSCOW, July 30. Working secretly overnight, behind hoardings, Soviet workmen demolished the famous shrine of the Iberian Virgin at Iberian Gate, where Tsars and all classes had worshipped for 260 years. Only a blackened spot remained in the morning. It is regarded as the Soviet’s most sensational blow against religion. ARCTIC ACQUISITION. MOSCOW, July 30. The Soviet Arctic Expedition solemnly hoisted the Soviet flag on uninhabited , Frans-Josef land, indicating its incorporation in the Soviet’s territory.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19290731.2.24
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1929, Page 5
Word Count
88WAR ON RELIGION Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1929, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in