SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1923, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

[nv •n:r,KOi!A7 > n— run minus association.] .Mir, AX SOCIALISTS. RO.MK, April IS Milan Socialists Congress rejected, by a majority of -1(111(1, a proposal to join llm Third Russian International. A HKI) SENTENCE. Cftcreived this day at Tl.lo n.m.) MOSCOW, April 1 7. The revolutionary tribunal in Retrograd sentenced to death live Mall oflieors of the Red Army, accused of spying on behalf of it foreign power. The sentence was immediately carried out. SOVIET ORDERS. fßeceived this day at 11. In a.m.) LONDON. April IS. The “Times" Riga correspondent states the Soviet is carefully staging the trial of Tikhon Antonin, and hacircularised all bishops ordering them to summon a local conferemo to demand the degradation of ex-communication as an enemy to Soviet Government, established by the grace of God. Priests failing to declare their hostility to the Patriarch and sympathy with the Soviet will be dismissed. SOVIET INTENTIONS. LONDON, April 18. The ‘-Daily .Mail's" Warsaw corro.]Handout says the tonvielion and execution of Tikhon is considered certain. Krglonko, the Public Prosecutor, has issued a warning that ioreigu intervention, or even supplication for a pardon will incense the Soviet which is determined to crush Christianity in Russia as an interference with the Soviet regime.