Foreign News: Revenge

How it happened was not known, but happen it did, apparently some time ago. Into Pecherskaya Monastery at Kiev went agents of the drab Cheka (Russian euphemism for High Court of Justice) ; right up into the belfry went they and discovered $400,000 worth of treasures. Then they came down, arrested 15 high ecclesiastics.

Last week, peasants passing along a certain road beheld 15 cassocked figures doing manual labor under an armed guard supplied by the thoughtful Cheka. The peasants were ashamed, went to their village, killed all the Bolsheviki they could lay hands...

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