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APRIL
3,
1937.
SIXTY-THIRD YEAR.
French Reporter Exposes Red Fake WORLD-WAR PICTURES AS PROPAGANDA
Photographs purporting to show children killed by Fran co's bombs in Ma0r,.: sicl used in Red Prcpaganda call over the world, have been traced to their source by the "Universa ' P.ilis Ccrrespom'ent, who le:. ires them to be fa,<es. Millions of copies of these pictures have been printed in folders and booklets, and some c f them have appeared in London dailies—not ably the "Daily Worker" and the "News Chron ice." Actually the pictures are official records of children killed in the German attack on Paris in 1918. Published All Over the World. ,raids on Madrid. In the nature Observers have reported that As soon as these pictures ap- of things they must have been. the zone was used for drilling peared in London—reproductions Before General Franco deliv- troops and for storin have since reached the "Unig war maered his attack on the city he de terial. Who, then, is to blame verse" from many parts of the clared a safety zone for non-com- for the killing w w-ld— -enquiries were begun on of children in batants. Madrid? the Continent, because tile photos did not appear to be of Spanish origin. A special correspondent of the • • niyersz" was shown in Burgos a few months ago a copy of a Paris magazine which contained . ne pictures. They were (P.cribed by the paper es 'bowing children killed by Benedictine Monastery for Can .)erra. Franco's q ,forces. Lt was recently announced that prove a valuable 'adjunct to the . A Nationalist official told the' the Commonwealth capital city .Nationdi University fck which correspond it that the pictuTks vas 'to have a. Benedictine mon- provision has been made in the were from Paris police reccrds. astery . Over eight years ago a plan of Canberra. At present But .until now, it has not been Mel bourne doctor left the sum a the only foundation in Australia Possible to substantiate this of 450,000 for the establishment of the famous Benedictine Order, s tatement. of the monastery at Canberra, on ‘vhichi.vas founded by St. BeneCriFlit for the exposure belongs conditio n that thisowas accom- dict in the beginning .of the VI. to a reporter on the staff of plishe d within 10 year4. Since Century, is at NOV Norcia. The "Bien Public." Catholic news- they , the; co-operation cif the Ab- first.Benedictines came to W.A. paper of Dijon. France. bot of - Downside, head of the in 1846, under the leadership of The pictures were shown there Ben cdittine Monaskery- at Bath, the Spanish monk, Dom RudesinA t the office of the Communist England. has been sought, and dus Salvado, O.S.B . In 1867 \ ssistance Committee for Rethe Abbot has replied protnising New Norcia was erecte d into an publican Spain. with an appeal to send two Benedictines to Aus- "Abbey Nullius" with a territo ry for funds and for recruits "to tralia next year to make prelim- of 16 square miles, which has avenge these women and chilinary arrangements. been extended to 30,000 square miles. The Benedictine comPrinted Four Years Ago. It has been pointed out that munity at prese nt numbets 32 The "Bien Public" then (Hs- an estab lishment of the Bene- priests, seven monastic stude covertd that the identical pic- dictin nts es at Canberra would not and 18 lay brothers. There are tures appeared in a French pub- only have an Australian-wide sig- four Fathers and a lay Brother lication in Max-, 1933. The pub- nifican ce for Catholics, but would at the Drysdale River Missi on. lication was entitled "Temoignages et Images Secretes de la Guerre" (Secret evidence and pictures of the war). They appeared with the caption: "In March. 1918. shells from Big Bertha fell on the Maternity Hospital." The editor of "Bien Public" called in a lawyer and asked him to compare the pictures. He averred that they were identical. When the facts had been published in "Bien Public" the photographs disappeared from the Communist shop. The deliberate fabrication ot the evidence by the Reds in this matter is symptomatic of the senseless irresponsibility of the :,reneral propaganda in favour of the Rtd Government in Spain No tne could deny that children have been killed in air DOWNSIDE ABBEY CHUR CH. BATH,
Downside Monks to Open House in Australia
ENGLAND.