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XeAslle July 22 — age two followed a series of further deportations, from all larger Rumanian cities. Simylataneously with those “inner deportations" - and for much the same reasons - the "transplantation" of what still remains among minority groups was decided, These are the ramainder of the German-speaking populations from Transsylvania and the Banat, the Serb minorities along the Danube ond important Hungarian groups in Transsylvania. The latter provinne therefore - being the most unreliable part of Rumania ssxfaxxamxemmn in the eyes of communist leaders - was have reached us frm the city of Brasov for example, where one-fourth of its 84,000 population has been taken away in the present transplanta: tion drive. Further such moves are feareo and expected, With such swift action, Soviets obtain a three-fold aims elimination of their enemies, terrorization of the population and increase of inexpensive manpowerefor governmental purposeSe the huge project of the Danube-Black Sea chanel, the fructification of the vast Baregan steppe, the new umanium mines discovered near the Danube in the Turnu-Severin and in the Galati regions, the construction of a grea number of Russian military camps and air fields and finally the collective governmental farms: all these are projects claiming for the mobilization of many hands. They are now carried on, large scale, with foreed labor bataillions. Religious persecutions. According once more to the general communistic pattern, fiere persecution of the Church precedes and continues aloggside with all other repressive measures and with the absolute levelling and unificati under Moscow dominatione The Rumanian Orthodox Church, having made its total submissio to Moscow, has received a status «nd lost all its independence. The Catholic Church who resisted has been hardest hite At first communists tried to split the Church and to gain - through persuasion or threat - the priests and members of its Greek rite to join Orthodoxy. With théér failure to reach this aim - except for individual cases - communists launched an all-out persecution in order to extirpate Catholicism from Rumaniae All the bishops without exceptic end about 800 priests are among the victims. The maintenance of any tie with Rome was strictly forbidden. Checking against each other a number of most reliable sources of informations, this observer was now able to establish the follwing account of what has happened to the Catholic Rumanian episcopate of both the Latin and the Greek rites. Latin rite: Archbishop Alexander Cisar of Bucharest was deported to a forced labor camp in the district of Kirowograd. It could not be established whethe) he is still tiere or has been taken furthere Bishop Anthony Durovici of Jassy was first emprisoned in Rumania; late: taken to Russias At the last information received, he was working in a steel factory among a group of forced laboreras Bishop Frantin of Oradea (Transsylvania) was reported to have died in