SOVIET & RELIGION
PENALTY FOR BREACH OF RULES [United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, August 2. • :‘“The Times” Riga correspondent s, ,-says: “Latvian papers declare that the Soviet Tcheka, after atrociously torturing them, shot -, fourteen Lettish op a charge of harbouring a priest, and of attending a service in conrtavention of the rules restricting the movements and activities of the ministers of religion. Despite the appeals of their relatives to bury.the dead Letts privately, their bodies were thrown into a common grave. Their property, and even their clothing was confiscated, leaving their families destitute. ;l’he “Tcheka” also sent one hundred and thirty colonists, for attending'services, to the notorious Solevtskv Prison Camp, where the conditions aro described as hell.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1930, Page 4
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