Government Members Named in Solomon Ceremonies Belgrade, Aug. 8.
A crowd of 2,000 people' assembled at Belgrade Cathedral to-day. and Tistened in silence while a lst was Tead containing the names of ten Ministers, including the Premier, M. Milan Stoyadinovitch, and. fifteen members of Parliament, charged with disobeying the orders of the Holy Synod.
In smaller suburban churches, the people responded after each name: "May he be damned."
The action to-day is believed to bbe a sequel to the Orthodox Church's opposition to the ratification of the Concordat with the Vatican. Ortho= dox priests claim that it gives unfair privileges to the Church of Rome.
The provisions of the Concordat provide, inter alia, that the Roman Catholic Church shall recover estates secularized in the 18th century or be indemnified for their loss, including Property expropriated in land reforms since the War; have unrestricted rights to found monasteries, seminaries and theological colleges and have entire freedom of action in fulfilment of its mission."
Roman Catholics number 3745 per cent, of the population of Yugoslavia while the Orthodox Church has 487 per cent-—Reuter.
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