PATRIARCH'S FATE.
j DID HE RECANT? j LONDON. June 37. Contradictory reports reach London jpf the fate of the Russian Patriarch ITikhon. Esthonian newspapers state he died in prison on June 16. | rtle Daily Express publishes a dr- | cUrnistanUal cable from Moscow, which ■ ■ says it is officially announced that -1 Tikhon has be e n released by order of the Supreme Court in consequence of '• a letter dated June 1«, i n which he ' I stated that, being reared in Manarch- - i»t surroundings, he was opposed to - Soviet authority. He admitted his '.anti-soviet, actions and acknowledged 1 the justice of the decision to bring i hmi to trial and asked for freedom, :• pledging himself to give up his*cc-un- . fer revolutionarv actions in future. MOSCOW, June 27. The Soviet Foreign Office states U ■ has revived a communication from l Farfher tfkhsn admitting-he actively ..ppo-ed the s»\i«t Government, recognising tb* Justice of the Supreme Pourt' = deci?i«n. r*pentin? oi all his I atVhsmMnouri:, *nd proraielns henceferti ns-i *o <p,aa»e. tli* Soviet and-to aauk tSMmSS* ms&m tram &* 11 - R " 1 SreHat wSfflntw f^TOmo*
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Otaki Mail, 29 June 1923, Page 3
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