Belgrade, July 27.
Representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church were reported? today to have informed the three Yugoslavian regents that their pr ence at the funeral of the Patriarch Varnave was not desired unless they affirmed their support of the Church stand against the proposed Concordat between Yugoslavia and the Vatican.
The regents thereupon refused to attend the rites, and thereby widened the breach in the bitter church conflict—United Press.
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