CHARGE OF SEDITION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1944, 30 December 1913, Page 5

CHARGE OF SEDITION.

SENSATIONAL TRIAL IN AUSTRIA. RUMOURED INSURRECTION, By Tckursph-PrcßS Association-OopyUeht (Rec. December 30, 0.50 a.m.) _ Budapest, December 29. ■Oie trial of ninety-four accused, most- /)' Hungarian Rnthenians, has begun, two hundred and soventy-fotir witnesses will bo examined, Tire principal prisoner is the Russian monk, Father Alexins, of Mount Athos, whoso real name is Alexander KabaLynk. Tho prisoners aro charged with having uttered seditious statements . against tho Emperor Franz-Josef, and tho dynasty. Hundreds of thousands of books and pamphlets havo been circulated, inciting to rebellion, with a vio:v to joining in with Russia. According to the prosecution, tho promoters of tho propaganda aro closely connected with tho President of the Russian National Association.

Count Vladimhr Bobruisk?, a member of the Duma, is.also in touch with tho priests at tho various Russian monasteries and with the Russian bishops, Exoelius and, Antonious, both zealous supporters of the insurrection. Their agents have promised tho Rirthenian. peasants a hotter and cheaper religion than the "Graec(j f ',svhich the Catholics insisted npon if they joined the Orthodos Chureli, and baptisms, marriage, and funerals will be free, and 1 co-use-qnently many havo joined tho Russian Church.