1 DECEMBER 1923, Page 2

The Warsaw correspondent of the Times described in the issue

of Friday, November 23rd, the impressions of Bishop Bury, who had just returned to Warsaw, from a visit to Moscow. Bishop Bury takes a very grave view of the prospects of the Orthodox Church in Russia. He thinks that it may maintain a precarious existence during the life of the Patriarch Tikhon, but that it will fall to pieces on his death. The Patriarch is " a broken man," and, the Soviet is apparently only awaiting his death in order to give the Orthodox Church its death blow.