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9. The Soviet Authorities have begun to apply the same  
program of bolshevization and dechristianization in the Baltic, Polish   
and Roumanian territories occupied and annexed by the U.R.S.S. since   
September 1939. Because of the resistance of the people, the application   
of this program is being effected gradually.  
All acts of worship have been restricted to churches and  
sacred places.  
The Catholic press and religious instruction in the schools  
have been suppressed.  
Bishops have been obliged to abandon their residences and  
to live in small and insufficient quarters: for example, the Archbishop   
of Riga was allowed only a single room measuring twelve square meters;.the   
Bishop of Liepaja was forced te leave his home and find living quarters   
outside the city; the Archbishop Apostolic Administrator ef Esthonia, at   
Tallin, was obliged to pay a monthly rent of 160 rubles for a single  
room, which had been his own property.                                         o  
CuriaI and seminary buildings were requisitioned and ecclesiastical   
property almost everywhere was confiscated. High taxes were imposed for   
the permission to keep churches open.  
Numerous priests and religious were imprisoned, and some  
                  were deported to Russia.                  
 
                                                            
 
 
10. Ecclesiastics were deported and killed especially after  
the beginning of the Russo-German war- and particularly when the Russian   
troops were obliged to evacuate the Baltic, Polish and Roumanian territories  
which they had previously occupied.  
Word has just been received to the effect that His Excellency Archbishop   
Edward Profittlich, Apostolic Administrator of Esthonia, was arrested in   
Tallin June 28th, 1941, after very