REMOVAL OF COFFIN.
ACTION BY ARCHBISHOP. POPE ORDERS INVESTIGATION. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, June 24. A message' from Cracow, Poland, states that violent demonstrations occurred to-day outside . the palace of the Papal Nuncio. Thousands of people assembled and demanded the immediate dismissal of the Archbishop of Cracow, Monsignor Sapieha, for removing the heavy silver coffin containing the remains of the late Marshal Pilsudslti from the Tomb of Kings in the Cathedral, in defiance of Poland’s President. Police' reserves have been ordered out, as a strike is expected. It Is reported that the Pope has ordered an Investigation owing to the threatened rift between the Church and the State.
The coffin was removed when the Archbishop learned that King Carol of Rumania was to place a wreath on Marshal Pilsudski’s tomb when he arrives at Cracow on Saturday. It is understood that the Archbishop’s decision was due not only to the nonCathollc religion but also to the private life of King Carol. A Polish newspaper suggests the Archbishop’s arrest for his “affront to the national pride.” Ex-servicemen are particularly enraged.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 26 June 1937, Page 7
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181REMOVAL OF COFFIN. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 26 June 1937, Page 7
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