BARRED AND BOLTED
AGAINST SOVIET POLICE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH A THREE DAYS' BATTLE (United Press Aa*ooiatk>n~By Bleatrk Telegraph—Copyright) C'Times' Cables) LONDON, 28th July. "The Times" Riga correspondent states that after a three, days battle the 0.G.11.U. police arrested an orthodox priest Koleroff and seventeen believers at Kimry, £!0 miles from .Moscow. The Soviet decreed closure of the chuivh ill order to convert the building it to » leather workers' club, but when officials appeared in order to carry out form::' confiscation they found the"doors bf-iieil and locked by* thirty locks. They ettemptecLto force the* doors, but the believers armed with sticks, beat I hem off. According to an official Soviet acjoun* a crowd of two thousand gathered round the church and routed the local polbe. The chairman of the local Soviet sip. peared with a bodyguard of Soviet officers, but they were all captured ni.d thrashed. Police reinforcements drafted in met a similar fate. further drafts came in. until resistance was overcome, but it took three days to do it.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 30 July 1929, Page 5
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