RED RUSSIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16113, 30 April 1923, Page 3

RED RUSSIA.

PRELATES FIGHT FOR TIKHON'S

LIFE

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(Received, April 30, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 29. The Daily Express' Moscow correspondent reports that remarkable sceneg ware witnessed at .Moscow district church conference, when- representatives of the Greek Orthodox Church, the new Living Church, and the Pevivalist Church were asked to condemn the Patriarch Tikhon. For two days' forty-seven of his followers frantically fought their opponents. They fell on their knees and began to chant Greek Orthodox hymns whenever Tikhon's name was mentioned'. Tho prelates and their followers were: forced to abandon the fight and withdraw. The remainder thereupon adopted a resolution virtually demanding the death penalty.

BISHOP'S LAST HOURS. LONDON, April 15.—How the Bishop of Budkiewiez went to his death at Moscow, wherei he) was sentenced by a Soviet Court Tor seeking to embroil Russia with the Vatican and with foreign countries, is told by the Riga, correspondent of Tho Times.

After sentence the Archbishop Tzieplak and tho Bishop were conducted! to isolated collst in tho Oheka (secret police) prison. Bath requested pel-mission to see other condemned l priests before their death, but the commandant said l that the sentences would l probably be commuted andl therefore refused' the request. When Archbishop Tzieplak learned) that his sentence was commuted 1 he, inquired as to the Bishop's fate, but tho secret palicei_ roughly fold him to mind his own business.

The commandant next told tho Bishop that his sentence had been confirmed, and ho then asked permission to see the Archbishop to receive tho sacrament. The commandant arranged a. meeting for the next morning, but the secret police appeared the same evening and said that their orders were to execute the sentence) immediately. They gave the Bishop fen minutes' solitude and then took him to a cellar, warning him that if hel raised his voice other priests would be shot.

The Bishop crossed 1 himself and whis]iercd prayers on the way to the cellar, where ho was placed! facing a wall and bullets from a, revolver fired; info hit: head.