AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
INTOLER AXT (lITER GY. A “ HUNGER STRIKE.” United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 11, 19 P-m.) ST I’ETKHSBURG, May 11. Tip' Kliieff . clergy petitioned the Council of Ministers against the project before the Duma, establishing freedom of conscience on. the groan d that it would be inflicting unmerited wrong if ilic Orthodox Churches were placed on the same level .as other sects and Judaism. Paganism and Freemasonry. Tito petitioners declared that such a reduction of the Orthodox Church may shake the foundations of the State. One hundred and twenty-eight political prisoners, imprisoned at Samara, and five hundred other prisoners, have declared a hunger strike, as a protest against drastic prison regulations. Already they have lasted five days.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14681, 12 May 1908, Page 7
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