Vienna, June 4.
'That Protestantism has in the last: few years gained considerable ground in' Austria, which is an almost ex: clusively Catholic country, is revealed statistics cited by the President the Evangelical Church Connell of Vienna, Dr. Capesivs, who said the annual' increase of the members the Protestant Church averaged 3,000, The peak was the year 1934 when the number of Ausirian Protestants. Increased by no fewer than 23,500 persons. The total number of Protest~ fants now living in Austria amounts to roughly 320,000—Trans-Ocean,
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