A HUNGARIAN CONSPIRACY.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13895, 30 December 1913, Page 5

A HUNGARIAN CONSPIRACY.

GREAT TRIAL AT BTJDA PESTH. RUSSIAN CHURciT PROPAGANDA.

(Received Dec. 30, 0.25 aim.)

Buda Pesth, Dec. 29

Tho trial of 94. 4persons, mostly Hun--1 garian Ruthenians, has begunl, There are 274 witnesses to be examined. The I principal prisoner is a Russian monk, 1 Father Alexius, of Mount Athos, whose 1 real name is Alexander Kabalyuk. I The prisoners are charged -with sedi-' i tious statements against the Emperor i Francis Joseph and the dynasty. Hun--1 dreds of thousands of books and painph- ! lets were circulated inciting rebellion, with a view to, joining Russia. - 1 According to the prosecution, the promoters of the propaganda were closely connected with president of the I Russian National Association, Count Vladimar Bobrinsky, a member of the, Duma,-arid'also with-thepriests of vari--1 ous Russian monasteries and two Rus r sian bishops whoi were zealous supporters of the insurrection. Their agents promised the Ruthenian peasants a better and cheaper religion than the Gracco-Catholic if they joined the Orthodox Church, in which bap.tisms, marriages, and funerals were free. f Consequently many joined the Russian Church.