CLERGY ENTICED TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION
V‘The Times” Cable.l LONDON, January 10,
Besides the higher dignitaries mentioned yesterlay the Ogpu has arrested many clergymen throughout Russia. The Anti-God Society has sprung into new life and the official “Godless’ journal has a greatly increased circulation, ' ' 4
According to the Soviet press, the clergy who have become victims of Stalin’s new Constitution misread paragraphs about religious liberty and believed themselves entitled to hold services and to pray and preach. ,
Thus, they were enticed' into the open to their own destruction. ? \ The Moscow correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says those arrested include ,20 bishops. The charges include attempting to persuade peasants not to vote for official candidates at the recent election.
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