SHOT FROM BEHIND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17009, 6 April 1923, Page 7

SHOT FROM BEHIND.

BUDKEVITCH BONE TO DEATH IN CELLAR

“ REDS ” URGED TO KILL POPE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.—Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received April 8, 9.45 a.m.) WARSAW, April 5.

It transpires that Monsignor Budkevitch was executed at four o’clock on Friday morning. The news was delayed through the Soviet suspending telegraphic communication for four days.

The sentence was carried cut in a cellar of the Cheka Building. The priest was placet! with his back to the executioner, who fired revolver shots into the hack of his head.

Soviet newspapers sarcastically comment on foreign intervention. The “ Isvestia ” makes a furious attack on “ perfidious England, murderer of a hundred thousand Irishmen.”

The “ Pravda ” exhorts Italian Communists to pronounce the death sentence on the Pane by default, pending the establishment of a Revolutionary tribunal.

PATRIARCH TIKHON IN DANGER,

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.—“The Times” Service. (Received April 6, 9.45 a.m.) RIGA, April 5. It is reliably stated from Mos cow that America unofficially requested the Soviet to e!!ow the Patriarch Tikhon to go to America, where he formerly lived. Trotsky and Kameneff. who are virtually dictators, are inclined to agree, but the Rad Bishop, Antonin, the head of the Soviet’s Supreme Church Administration, dissuaded them. The trial has beest postponed pending the unfrocking of Tikhon.