GODLESS REDS.
■ IMPOSSIBLE PLEDGE FOR CATHOLIC CLERGY. MUST REFUSE OBEDIENCE TO . BISHOPS. ALL RELATIONS TO POPE THROUGH SOVIET, United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright ' (Australian Press Association.) (Received April 17, 5.5 p.m.) ' LONDON, April 17. The Daily Mail’s Berlin, correspondent states that the Bolsheviks ordered Roman Catholic clergy to sign an'. impossible declaration pledging them to accept the Soviet’s anti- 1 religious legislation, including the prohibition of teaching- religion to children under sixteen years, refusing obedience to. - bishops'; and altstaining from relations with the Pope except through the Soviet. Priests; failing to sign will be transported to the, dreaded Solvetz Island in -the White Sea. .
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10564, 18 April 1928, Page 5
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