PASTORS IN RUSSIA
INHUMAN TREATMENT.
GERMAN CHURCH REVELATIONS.
London, April 13. According to the Berlin orrespondent of the Tinies, the German Evangelical Church alleges inhuman persecution of its religious communities settled in the Volga Basin. It declares that 000 pastors' 5 have been imprisoned and sent to labour camps. One pastor named Erbes died ot spotted typhus, which his starved system could not resist. Another, imprisoned by the Ogpu, was forced to stand upright in a cell for seven days. When he collapsed, exhausted, he was beaten and forced to stand again.
The Ogpu hoped to extort a confession concerning alleged anti-Soviet activities. This pastor was condemned to hard labour in the Siberian forests, where he was obliged to fell trees in conditions of unutterable cold and filth. Often he lacked bread.
The Church appeals for the immediate rescue of those persecuted.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1932, Page 10
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