BISHOP ON TRIAL.
LATEST SOVIET PROSECUTION. ALLEGED' ESPIONAGE. BV CABT,E—PEESB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Jan. 23. The R.iga correspondent of “The Times” states that the Soviet military tribunal at Ivieff is trying a Catholic Bishop, Skalsky, of Polish nationality; oil a charge of a-counter revolution and espionage involving the death penalty. When other ecclesiastics accompanied the departing Polish troops in 1920 Skalsky remained at Kieff hid in the belfry for five weeks after which he resumed his duties. The charges include maintaining relations with Poland to which he gave a review of the Catholics’ position in the Ukraine agitation against tlie Soviet.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 January 1928, Page 4
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