SOVIET AND CHURCH.
LIES FROM RIGA. TIKHON’S FICTITIOUS TRIAL. LONDON, April 18. 1 The ‘‘Times’s” Riga correspondent states: The Soviet is carefully staging the trial of Patriarch Tikhon. The Red Primate Antonin has circularised all the Bishops ordering them to summon a local conference and demand Tikhon's degradation and excommunication as an i enemy to the Soviet Government established by the grace of God. Priests failing to declare hostility to tire Patriarch and sympathy with the Soviet will be dismissed. The “Daily Mail’s” Warsaw correspondent says: The conviction and execution of Tikhon is considered certain. Krylenko, the Public Prosecutor, has issued a warning that foreign intervention. even supplication for a pardon. will incense the Soviet, which is determined to crush Christianity in Russia, as an interference with the Soviet regime. 1
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Grey River Argus, 20 April 1923, Page 5
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