For ordering all religious communities in the Shepetovka region to register and each member of the community to pay one rouble tax to the soviet, A. Dratchuk, president of the regional soviet executive, has been impeached and will be tried for issuing illegal orders.
D. Shphilko, president of the Proskurov soviet, has been removed from his office because it was proven that he is the son of a shochet, a Jewish ritual slaughterer.
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