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Show RUSSIANS LOOT OLD CATHEDRAL Treasures Regularly Seized ; Include Bushels of Pearls MOSCOW. April 28 -(By the Apso 1 I elated PttSB.) The famous Troltzki, : or Trinity, cathedral in Petrograd has been robbed of nil Its valuables Sirul-j Tnr depredation arc reported at other i places, bui generally .poaklnp:, the re-1 QulBltlonltiK of cUtircb valuables Is pro-j ' coedins v:th little difficulty STACKED TO CEILING I Removal of Hie vnluables from the, johurchea in Moscow In about three-1 i fourths completed Thr OKcretate of I treasure taken npludea siir by the, jton, gold by the hundredweight, p Brlsj by the bushel nml diamonds by the perk The valuables are stored in boxes and placed In warehouses under guard, where they awail sorting The treasure boxes from Moscow-alone Moscow-alone are heaped to I he celling The hnxs seen by the correspondent filled one floor 100 feet lon and 45 feet Wide. Four other floors are being Hi , ij fot storing the treasures from th-provinces. th-provinces. The Kiev monastery yielded among other articles a golden lamp ornameni ed with 241 diamonds and 207 pearls, according lo newspaper advices. CLERGYMEN ARRESTED In addition to the two clergymen and iie layman sentenced to dSfttn by the revolutionary tribunal at Shu-ya Shu-ya for having taken part In a church riot arising from opposition to the requisitioning re-quisitioning of church valuables, 12 persons have been sentenced to imprisonment im-prisonment ranging from one year to tive ) ars. The revolutionary tribunal is now trying 1R more persons, mostly clergymen, clergy-men, including Blshnp N'lkandel and Canon Lublnoff, who are charged with propaganda for the resistance of tht requisitioning. Other trials are in prog ress in several or the provinces, chiefly chief-ly lor alleged theft or secreting of church valuables. At Poltava several priests have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labor. la-bor. oo |