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ARCHBISHOP SENTENCED TO DEATH (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association). LONDON,. March 27. A Moscow message • says _ that Archbishop Zeplinak and Budkevitch, Roman Catholic Primate of Russia, were sentenced to death and fifteen priests imprisoned for terms ranging from ten to three years.
PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES LONDON, March 27. The Dailv Mail’s Moscow correspondent states" that the Bolshe.viks, decided on a great, programme of persecution of all Christian Churches in Russia on the first Sunday after Easter. A church assembly has been summoned, at which the elections will 'be manipulated and the whole .machinery of the church will be captured by Communists At present all Catholic priests in Moscow, Petrograd, and Butyrka are imprisoned in Moscow on charges of holding counter-revolution-ary meetings. - ..... ..
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 28 March 1923, Page 5
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