The Archive · 1925

Persecution of Priests

"The priests and church people who follow the Patriarch are, particular, arrest real groninds, exile Marion, the. Patriareh's sec suitoring <everely in of Tashkent. x of the Teading priests wha} were serving the Patriarch were brown into prison two months ago Moscow, and then carted to Novo-Nikolaesk. Old men of 70 and young girls of 18, within my circle of acquaintance, have been taken in this way.

"In Tomsk prison last month I woman teacher in a cell sautiful little daughter of They were bound for the Her offence was—influencimg the children in the school against the Government. She was treated as a criminal' and not a political.

"The fate of thousands of people who are sent up into the Northern lages ie terrible beyond words, Many of them are sent in summer clothes to a Flet where it ix 60 degrees below zero. No for feeding them, ry little for caring for them when Many of them this winter}

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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