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THE HONGKONG DAILY BES8, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1938.

BOLSHEVIKS AND RELIGION

PERSECUTIONS IN RUSSIA.

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priest, Himilar interrogatory was put to all the other clergymen, and the answers were al- Ways the same, Lave in one instance, where a priest, while maintaining that he had a right to teach children, said that, A powerful and stirring address upon his

awing to h

having hind other duties to dia- personal experiences in Bolshevik Russia was charge, he never been called upon to siven by Captain Francia McCallagh, author do so. This priest was convicted, however, of "A Frisoner of the Reds in the Great on another charge, the grate Large of London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Ball of King's College on May 28th, on be

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to Vancouver, BC Honolula, Singapore. Pong BANKING-SHIPPING-TRA VEL half of the Appeal for the Russian Clergy quote from the Art of Accusation Tientsin, Swat, w. Marso, Canton and all Com. I could not prevent said, Fatreducing the lecturer, the Chairman

the morcial centres of China and abroad. of the Sacred veels" knelt expresand his pleasure at bei pra revolutionary act mared Krylenko, and, in

That was down

to pray

counter because he recognised in Captain Me Cullagh a fellow journalist of the highest the event, that priest got

several years' enterprize and the (Cheera) "He was a man who had long been Bolshevik, laws, said, "There are other laws utmost veracity imprisonment. One of the prisoners, ques-

tioned by Krylenko on his knowledge known as fearless both in speech and action,those of God and of the and he had behind him a

a long career of

This answer them would be proud to be able to put to infuriated

We care not, their name. At the beginning,

about he roaredi of the Great

other law. There is any War he was in Warsaw during Hindenburg's no law here but Soviet hew. When that law attack on it. Then he joined up in England, comes into conflict with any other law you get a commission, and was inter hend of must choose which you will

Cubey publicity in

and of in the British Military Mission of obey the law of God, and

my conscienc General Knox in Siberia Way sut off in said the priest. Further interrogated by Kry

He the retreat, and made a most daring journey

the Archbishop replied with the Faith "We terrorise through to Moscow, on the way the T

If anyone

weakens in establishing the must trustworthy account the Faith, it is my duty to strengthen him. of the assassination. In his last visit to How would that a lower which forbade This is a religious, not a political, act." Moscow, where he went with the full know- ledge of the Bolsheviks, he spent about six you to teach childrent was another ques months, and began jibbing when obvious tion to which the Archbishop replied: "If @ CO., LTD., attempts were made to surner the various

correspondenta and put the

Personal direction under us by force, we woubi submit only to an iron of Chickerin necessity. Thanks to the position occupied ser, hostile the trial of Budkiewicz stirred

him was

Faithful, deeply. He managed to get all his recount disposition of mind towards the orders of the out to the English and American Press Government. Is this not sol" "Not hostile, although he was arrested after Budkiewicz's

I should rather say replied the Archbishop,

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condenination, and sent to the same prison | tast lie you like; but is it or is it not a from which he was later released, to return political act to wake people feel that they to England. (Hear, hear.)

have a grievance against the Government?

In my opinion it is not, in this ense, a political act," Krylenko reached a

Stand crescendo in his final speech, the terrible speech in which he demanded the lives of six men. First, in order to show how he regarded the Divine Law, he yelled: Your religion, I spit on it, as I do un all religions, Orthodox, Jewish, Moham used Mohamaredan, Latherin, and the rest these terrible words: "There is no law but the Soviet law, and by that law you must die! This was the authentic voice of Bolshevism. The comparatively smooth and soothing assurances of Krassin_and Litviney were articles.ofexport only. They were manufactured I exclusively for us.

Moscow's DOUBLE VOICE. Captain Francis 'Callagh, explained at the outset that he spoke from the standpoint of a newspaper correspondent, and not is a theologian or politican. Liv ing all their lives abroad, sometimes in very disturbed countries, journalists, be said, were generally inclined to become a cynical and unemotional. The present religious persecutions in Russia shocked him very much, and not him alone -for he did not claim to be better

алу Car worse han other correspondents but also lis collenges both Chris tinn and Jewis At the trial of Bishop Cieplak, one of his colleagues-u Jaw, if he was not mistaken-showet the censor a caisle in which he described the last night of the trial, and in which he sentence was pronounced the Polish women prosent in court fell on their knees." It was like the clang of a faneral bel, like the chant perfectly true, but the censor said. We don't of a savage tribe gathered around a victifu want that and he ran his blue pencil at

at the stake.

Bolshevism was full of such through it. That correspoulent said, "This phrases, formidable, sinister, exotic phrases you't do for me, and fit wrap, omne presty maddening drug, which excited one-inture

which gripped

the brain like some dendly, sending to The Daily Telegraph some "hot stuff." During the past three years at the manufacture of such phrases Linin

SE some occult, diabolient least three correspondents had done the same thing in the same paper. One of them had not time to get out; he was put out, the same As himself.

There is no law but the Soviet law, and by that law you must die? He had just

and even

tlint yet terrible phrase was st

used the words, "After come from Red ringing in his atra

was a past-master and even the mysterious malady from which he now suffered had not deprived him of that terrible gift We favo

Terror,

a triple Terror," he wrote once, while

hile lying on

on his bed ut sickness-L and this at a time

Lloyd George minded and and other singing to persuade us that people in this Bolshevism had become mild and reason- country were trying

Moscow spoke with a double voice! It told Hassia that it was out to crush all religions: it told the rest of the world, "through its Foreign Office and through its envoya in Christian States, that it was no persecuting any religion. But it had been the same in every persecution of the Church.able. "We unloosed that Terror eace. We The religious question in Russia Not cau unlose it again." (Cheers.) one of Jew rex Christian, it was a que for the innocent men imprisoned by the Captain MaCullagh finally made an appeal tion of militant, atheist, Bolshevism every form of supernatural

and his the trial of

thero

was much talk about law. This she expected, for in Soviet Russia there was endless law making. A column in the vestia was filled nearly every day with new laws, and legislation was ease

clergy in Archbishop on. During Bolshevists, declaring that those imprisoned

for political offences numbered at least fifty thousand

I want (he said) to appeal to you on behalf of all the prisoners of the Reds. We have

been told "off Russia!" when we have

intention DO

since there was no Parliament to by We have

putting hands on Kussin. been

lectured about the awfulness of making war, when we have no intention of making war. If you want a cry to indicate your attitude towards Hussin, why not try the Prison Doors?" All the old Tourist gaols are full; but the only building aperations now going on in Russia are con

with the transformation of private houses into prisons. Most of Russia's present output of pig-iron goes into prison bars. I stood behind auch burs myself: they were contined had been part of a young ladies' brand new, and the room in which AB aendemy. If any political party in Eng land wants a cry with regard to Russia, why not "Open the Prison Doors!"

consulted, no Opposition to be con sidered, no constituencies to be sounded, no Press

to be approached. Five met

men had complete power, could

use the Love Lawn, they file nenovo to the Bolshevik theory the State was omni potent, and the decrees of the State were to regarded as something sacred, somet

were; to which if a Government Bust not even

brought in, y a Welsh Disestablishment

eut Bill, and the Archbishop of Canterbury ventured to criticise it, and even invited a number of other Lambeth Falace in order to discuss the mat

other prelates to tor, the Prime Minister did not have the Archbishop arrested on a charge of high treason, tried in Westminister Hall, and be- headed on

Tower

Hill. As Mr. Hamsay MacDonald put it in the House of Commons the lecturer, said that about a year ago Dean Inge, proposing a vote of thanks to the other "If thera is anything

her day:

authentic information was published show- characterises the more liberal-minded their had been done to death by the that no fewer than 1,078,000

this

country, it is that

that

THE SPEECHES.

of the people of religious

belief and religious faith are which represented the most ghastly tyranny sacred as against the foren of the that had ever existed, and it could not State. Tha

They have worshipped God as they last for long When a sli wished, State or noState, decrea or no decree,

body of bloxlthirsty. rallians law or no law, and they will pursue that me the three strongest instincts-

declared war against the religion, spiritual independence." took the sain view as Mr. Hamsay

Archbishop Cieplak

family, and privato ownership it surely could not last long. As before the blood

Donald, and therefore,

during the trial in on several ocasions of the martyrs would be the seed of the

his conception, of came into acute confict with the Bolshevik Church, and there must follow great Public Prosecutor, and by talk, the religious revival throughout that vast

forth by

conception es act

the Chief country.

Judge. In fact two incompatible concep. the denial by the Bolshevisis of the in- Canon Howlett, in seconding, said that tions were represented in that court. The dividual right and duty to recognize and

conception was in the dock, and on

Wench was another conception strange obey the divine law of conscience was a

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because be knew that it touched the Jewish com- munity very deeply, nuc in Kussin the Jews On one occasion, Krylenko, the Public were suffering more intensely from the Prosecutor, naked one of the prisoners: persecution What was going on was

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