Under the Tartar yoke, Ru: princes were forced personally to pay their homage to Batyi, and some travelled as far as the Great &han's camp in the Altai mountains, Russian armies were included in the "ordos of the khan, and Russian orces helped in the Tartar occupation of South China. After healing he wounds it received during its first defeat, however, Russia, under he rule of the khans, never once olaxed its stubborn struggle to strengthen its national unity; and nder the leadership of the Moscow ounces it in time became so strong 1 political body that the Tartar yoke ell off it as the shell falls off a ripe aut, No historian can supply data s to when the Mongolian yoke ceased to exist in Russia. Ruséia ow and became strong. the horde split and lost its power.
News from Belgrade An interesting piece of informa-ion has been received from Arch-
"ishop Nestor, who left for the Bishops' Conclave in Yugoslavia some ime ago, describing how he was present at the solemnities during the lection of the new Serbian Patriarch Gabriel in Belgrade. Answering a message of felicitation from Metropolitan Anastasy, head of all the Russian churches outside of Russia, he new Patriarch said: "I, and the people of Serbia, love Russia and he Russian Church. As long as the serbian Church lives, the Russian Church in foreign lands may rest sured that it will never lack help; or we remember well how the Serbian Church was aided in times vast by the former great Russia," While in Belgrade, Archbishop Nes-for gave a lecture, after which he was welcome on behalf of the Rus-ian colony by Mr. V. N, Strandtman, former Russian ambassador.
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