INSULT TO POPE
SOVIET LEADER’S BOAST
SIX CHURCHES DESTROYED
United P. A.—By Telegraph copyright ROME, Friday.
The Vatican has received the report of a wireless message, which was intercepted at Vienna, of a broadcast speech made by Yareslavsky, head of the “Godless League,” directed against the Holy See.
Yareslavsky boasted that immediately following the Pope’s protest he caused six large churches to be blown up, or otherwise demolished, exclusive of those in country districts, as a still worthier answer to the Roman Catholic provocations. Yareslavsky says be is preparing the complete destruction in 10 days of all the leading churches in the 10 largest cities in the Soviet Union.
There are further reports at the Vatican and records from the whole world of the repercussions to the Pope’s appeal. A message from Riga sets out the following manifesto by workers from the Clodless League: “Damn us as they wish, we will not retract 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 erect the Pope’s effigy beside that of the Siberian witch Shaman, as monuments to the Papal swindle.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 904, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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195INSULT TO POPE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 904, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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