TENSION IN BELGRADE
City'* Deep Mourning For Patriarch DEFENCE OF THE CHURCH (Eeceived 28, 11.30 a.m.) BELGEADE, July 27. Tension underlies the city 's deep mourning for the Patriarch, M. Varnava, past whose bier mourners defiled all day. City police, to whom the populace is less hostile, replaced gendarmerie near the cathedral, bnt gendarmerie are trnculently swinging their truncheons in full force on the fashionable promenade of St. Michael. Thousands of leaflets have been circulated adjuring members of the Orthodox Church to defend the Church against the Popo as they defended it against the Kaiser and against the Sultan. The funeral on Thursday is expocted to yield scenes comparable with King Alexander'® obsequies in 1934. The Government discountenancos the excommunications. The Orthodox Synod reported by suspending the religious rights of 100 members of Parliament and supporters of th0 Ooncordat, and by conveying the Church tribunal to adjudicate regarding the ©ycommunications. Learmng that the daughter of the excommunicated parliamentarian M. Lukarevitch desired to marry, members of the Orthodox Church refused to allow the ceremony or grant a birth certificaie enabling her to marry elsewhere.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 163, 28 July 1937, Page 5
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