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lescit ,tlon.. hlch onu ls lor.tha to credit untll lt ls estibllshd by eh* u£y*pwuch* ble testlfiony of eye- ltnesses to the horror • nd ln-excuxJ ^vic eACoJset oommitted Upon helpless nd haijelese ueople ('5 .a; ceful nd un.,retentious «s ny in ’ urope,) are not conflned to the ceoiions of the country under Ruasl n oocuprtion. ho rt-rcncjln_t; s r.u.j fror th t u rter hns been. ven morę viol?nt nd persl tent ls th* issault upon wlenont ry Justico t nd d6cency In th t'*irt of prost-• :e .ol nd .vMch h*.o f lltn to Cer n »d;lnl- trntlon. Tm* rlchost r of et tern ; ol>.nd lc being unceremor.lously stolen fron the • oles nnd d-.uced ovur to the Gernv.ns, • s the ne 1 proprlbtor3 t ro pr-cked off In foul srellln* tr<*,lns to the .v r-tcm region of raf* /hlch the lioly thur only I st week descrlbed ^f,i dus^rt ..hero once the smllln* li .rveot ved,^,f < system of Interior deportitlon .nd *.onln^ is hclńg on nlzed. ln the depth of one of urope^fs severect lnters, on jrlnc-l^lea ^ł nd by r..ethod3 th t c^r n be descrlbed only r.\s brut 1; nd Lt rk hunter :-t res seventy ^rcent of olnd^f£ .-oBuUtlon ln the r ce, «s lt: reser^os on foodstuffs > nd tools re shlpped to Gen ny to replan-lsh the _tr n’ rlt’s of the t, u tro.->ole.~nd rolj: * rt bbln, hc-rdcd lnto se^ r: te 'yhattos", harmetlc lly sefled • nd pltlfully ln de u to for thu economlc sub.l stonce of the mllllona destlnać to llve there.

lut the croanln/ lnl ulty ln n rdnilnlstr tlon th t h s never co :,ed to ci lm lt h .d no cl Ims g- lnot roli, lon 1163 ln the cvnlc 1 suppresi lon of • 11 but the ir.erest uurrestlon of rell^lous orship ln the llvee or thlf rrost plous nd aevotlon' 1 of the ^eoples of 'urope. n ' dn inl: tr-tlvc decree, pplled ..Ith v^r rvlne effectlvcness throufhout the Gener* 1 novernn»ent . rotector-te, restricts public rtll_f iou: 3crvlc-es to « bvre t o hourr on 'und y. The thous nds of churches ln ol^nd second horca for old nd young frorp momlnr till ::unset evtr sińce the n tlon v.»8 born :nd b^ptlzed ln the c^tholl: f lth, re de3trtod nncl elosed for slx *nd n h^r lf days of the .>eek, sępi r^r tlng rn pffllcted poople fro:. the • lt r of Its hopes nd srcriflces. It °dds up to ' fe rful tot .l nd r tremendous recpon3^ł blllty: one crore ęrltvous rffront to the nor 1 conaclence of n-nklnd* one r;.ore conterr.tuous: lnsult to the 1- -a of n tlons, one morę open thruet et the hor rt of the Fftther of the Chrlrtl n renlly, /.ho ęrl^yes ltdi His de r .ol nd, nd b^t;s for pe ce v>lth docericy ind Ju^tlce from the throne of pr^ce.