WAR ON RELIGION
IN SOVIET RUSSIA. A MILITANT GROUP. CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION LAMENTED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received March 13, 10.30 a.m. MOSCOW, March 12. M. Y'oroslavsky, president of the Militant Godless Society, has ordered the intensification of the anti-religious war, declaring that religion is reviving in the guise of Communism, using slogans such as: “With God and the Communists we can build up* Socialism”; “Christ was the first Socialist.”
M. Yoroslavsky laments the wider celebration of Christmas and the reopening of the churches. DEATH OF PRIEST. AN ITALIAN ALLEGATION. Received March 13, 11.6 a.m. ROME, March 12. The Osservatore Romano reports the death of a Polish Catholic Priest, Father Johann Trojko, “as the result of inhuman trdatment experienced during a long sojourn in Soviet prisons since 1923.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 88, 13 March 1934, Page 7
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128WAR ON RELIGION Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 88, 13 March 1934, Page 7
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