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thorough perquisition, and was deported by the Russians to  
the Ural Mountains.  
It is known that the Bolsheviks deported some thirty ec-  
clesiastics from Latvia; grave fears are entertained for the  
fate of these men.  
From  Lithuania fourteen were deported; and twenty-one were certainly   
killed there, - some of them after having been subjected to atrocious   
torments: they were, for instance, bound to a cross, the mark of a cross   
burned into their foreheads and chests, their entrails torn from their   
bodies while they were still living.  
From Galizia some seventy ecclesiastics were deported or killed; some of   
them barbarously murdered, - placed on a cross, and nails driven into   
                        their heads.                        
 
                                                            
 
 
After the beginning of hostilities with Germany the Soviets tried - by   
corrupting the servant- to poison the Bishop of Stanislaopoli, H.E. Mons.   
gory Chomyszyn, and his Auxiltary, H.E. Mens. John Latysevsk
 
                                                            
 
 
11. At Cernauti a Catholic church was closed June 22nd, the day on which   
the Russo-German conflict broke out, and remained closed to worshipers for   
two weeks- that is, until the evacuation of the Russian troops from the   
                           city.                            
 
                                                            
 
 
Though not complete, this list of facts confirms the presence of an   
anti-religious attitude amongst the Bolsheviks, at least until a few   
                         weeks ago.                         
 
                                                            
 
                    September 20th, 1941