HORRORS OF BOLSHEVISM.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 March 1925, Page 9

HORRORS OF BOLSHEVISM.

BRITISH CHAPLIN’S TESTIMONY

Addressing a.‘meeting called by the Coleford, Gloucestershire, Unionist Association, the 'Rev. It. Courtier Forster, who escaped from Galicia following banishment by the Soviet Government from Russia, where he had lived for nine years, said the Bolsheviks had abolished God, and Christianity in Russia was dying. In his own chaplaincy 26 bishops and TO clergy had been murdered. The Bolshevists’ cry was, ‘,‘Away with God and down with the clergy.’’ Under Soviet rule man and wife were married by declaration, and marriage was dissolved quite as easily. In the ‘epurse of 12 months there was nothing to prevent a man from exchanging his wife six or seven times. Men and women were robbed of their clothing in the streets and forced to walk home naked jn several degrees of frost. Women were outraged, mutilated, and shot down in the streets, and there left to die. Thousands of people had died of starvation. He himself had beep forced to pa.v frpm £2 to £3 for a small loaf and 10s 6tl for a piecel of horse flesh. He had eaten eat stew until he got' sick of it.