ANTI-GOD CAMPAIGN

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1930, Page 5

ANTI-GOD CAMPAIGN

SOVIETS ANSWER TO POPE

OGDLESS LEAGUE’S: MANIFESTO. /United Press Association— By Electric • - ' I ; J telegraph—Copyright). • ~ ROME, February 21. .Vatican'"‘has received the repo,-* of a wireless message which was - intercepted at Vienna, of a broadcast speech by M.. 'Yaroslavsky boasted"'.\that 'immediately following on the recent: protest; he had caused gjjf churches to be blown up, or otherwise demolished, exclusive of those in’-the country districts. As a still worthier.’.answer to Catholic provocation he said he is preparing the complete destruction in ten dajs, o all of the leading churches in the ten largest cities in . the Soviet Union. There are also': further .Vatican news and records throughout the. world of the repercussions of the Pope’s appeal.

One message from Riga, sets out a manifesto to the workers from the Owlless League, stating: 1 ‘Dam us as they wish, we will , not react from ,the road which Lenin showed! The 'day will come when, the Godless workmen of the world will turn the Vatican into a museum, and will erect ftthe Pope's effigy beside that of the ;JftVrian . witch-doctor Shaman. as n*3tnuments oif a papal swindle.” V • • ' ■i' • /BIRKENHEAD’S ASSERTION. A .; LONDON. February 20. In the House of Lords. Lord Birkenhead' denounced as “an impudent clumsy fnfgerv” the reported ’ declaration bv the Metropolitan of the Russian Cruch, Sergius, to the effect that 'ithere-was no religious persecution in that country.