RUSSIAN SITUATION.
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION BY BOLSHEVIK FIENDS. MARTYRDOM OF CLERGY. lElec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.i » -Auatralluu and N.Z Cable Association.) LONDON Nov. 27. 1 General Denekin's recent reports show an, astonishing record of religious persecutions under the Bolshevik regime. Many of the Orthodox clergy have. been martyred and some were beaten to deatli with ramrods. Another was stripped naked and placed before an, open grave. When he made the sign of the cross the executioner cut off his right hand. The body lay un buried and dogs ale "the! i corpse piece-meal. Hardly a priest .has escaped beating or arrest. No baptisms, I burials, or weddings are allowed without' the Bolshevik permission. The Red Army men always icferrcd to the Virgin Mary with blasphomy' and obscenity. They broke, up Church .services to sing indecent hymns and songs, destroying • ikon® and using sacred vest- ■ mewts as horse-covers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15080, 1 December 1919, Page 3
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