SOVIET REVENGE.
PUNISHMENT OF PRIESTS
[Eire. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) {Australian and N,Z . Cable, Association.) LONDON, March 51. The . Daily Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent, says commutation of the death sentence was granted .to Archbishop Zepliak • lest the Catholics regard the penalties as directed against priests and religion generally, but Father Budokvitcii used his status ns a priest to participate in counter-revolutionary plots. Soviet newspapers, justifying the senfences. resent, further interference, and declare that the Anglican Church, which formerly executed Roman CalhoV lies, has no right to protest, while British Labor leaders. who dine with the Kiiijr cannot be seriouslv regarded. LONDON, April 2.
Archbishop Bourne, preaching at Westminster Cathedral, protested against tho sentence on the Russian Archbishop. “The whole world’,”, he said,;“lias shuddered at the news. He was sentenced solely because ho did his duty as a Christian. Ten years’ solitary confinement is more awful than death itself.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16091, 3 April 1923, Page 5
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