HUNGARIAN SEDITION CASES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3526, 30 December 1913, Page 5

HUNGARIAN SEDITION CASES.

94 PRISONERS ON TRIAL

RUSSIAN PLOTTERS’ FAILURE.

SOME SENSATIONAL ALLEGA-

TIONS

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT] (Received Dec. 30, 1.5 a.m.) BUDAPEST, uec. 29. Tlie trial of 94 prisoners—mostly Hungarian Ruthemians—lias begun. Two lntndred and seventy-four witnesses are to be examined.

Tlie principal prisoner is a Russian monk named Father Alexius Mont Athos, whose real name is Alexander Kabayuk.

The prisoners are charged with seditious statements against the\ Emperor Franz Josef and the dynasty. Hundreds of thousands of books and pamphlets were circulated inciting rebellion with a view to joining Russia, and, according to the prosecution, the promoters of the propaganda are closely connected with the President of the Russian National Association, Count Vladimir Bobrinsky, a member of the Duma, and also with priests, in various Russian monasteries. The Russian Bishops Exodins and Antonious were zealous supporters of the insurrection; and their agents promised the Ruthenian peasants a better and cheaper religion than the Graeco-Catholic if they joined the Orthodox Church. Baptisms and marriages and funerals were to be free. Consequently many joined the Russian Church.