RUSSIA'S "GODLESS LEAGUE"
MOKE CHURCHES DESTROYED —— 6
EOME, 21st February.
Tho Vatican has received a report of a wireless message which was .intercepted at Vienna of a broadcast speech by M. Yareslavsky, head of the <'Godless League," directed against the Holy See. -
Yareslavsky boasted that immediately following the Pope's protest, he caused six large churches to be blown up or otherwise demolished, exclusive of those in country districts.' As a still more worthy answer to the Catholic provocations, he is preparing the complete destruction in ten days of all the leading churches in the -ten largest cities in tho Soviet Union.
further Vatican news records world repercussions from tlio Pope's appeal, A message from Riga set 3 .out a manifesto to workers from ihe "Godloss League": "Damn us as they wish, we will not turn back from the road which Lonin showed. The. day will come when the godless workmen of the world will turn the Vatican into a museum, and erect tho Pope's efiigy beside that of the Siberian witch doctor Shaman as monuments of the Papal swindle."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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