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Rites for MILLION ARAB D.P.'s France's Gift LONDON, April 22-7(NC).-The number of Arab refugees from Palestine is now close to 1,000,000, and more are daily swelling the total, according to a survey by the Middle East correspondent of "The Times." About one -quarter to a third of them are sheltered in proper tented camp.. "the rest are scattered in villages and towns, living in schools, convents, deserted buildings, improvised shelters, caves, and even holes in the ground," he writes.
To Pope
PARIS (Airmail).-Three valuable gifts were presented to His Holiness Pope Pius XII. by the French Government, to honour the 50th. anniversary of his ordination. VictimsYangtze One was the only remaining copy of the first edition of "ComSHANGHAI, April 23.-Four Catholic sailors were mentary on the Psalms," by Bishop Bossuet, famous seventeenth killed and about a dozen wounded in the shelling of the century four British warships on -the Yangtze Rover. (The estimate of 1,000,000 Arab pher, for preacher and philosowhom the Pontiff has refugees is about 200,000 higher always expressed As I talked here to a young great admirathan that recently given by a tion. Printed British sailor, member of the high United Nations official and had belonged in 1691, the book crew of the shell -peppered deto Bishop Bossuet about double the number admit- himself, stroyer Consort it was like a ted by Moshe Sharett, Foreign tations inand contains several noflash -back to war days to see The his own handwriting. Minister under of Israel, in a press conRosary around his neck The second gift is a reproducference in Washington.) the collar of his jacket. tion of "The Instruction of the This lad, Richard Madden, from According to the correspond- Christian," a book by Cardinal Glamorgan, Wales, whose parents ent, "the morale of the refugees Richelieu, Prime Minister of came from Cork. Ireland, was is low. They are destitute, de- France under Louis XIII one of those who escaped injury CANTON, China, April 21-(NC).-Numerous offers pressed and bewildered." DeThe third present is a reproducduring the three-hour running gun of help ;lave been received from Chinese as well as claring that the Arabs are not tion, made especially for battle with Communist Yangtze foreign friends of the Canadian Sisters conducting one of nomads, the writer asserts that Father, of the first posterthe Holy printed shore batteries. "the idea propagated by the in France. It printed in (The Consort landed ten dead the world's largest leper hospitals at Sheklung, 25 miles Zionists that all Arabs are the 1482 in the Pariswasworkshop of and 27 wounded in Shanghai. east of here, following an attack on the hospital by an same and equally happy in any Jean du Pre. Entitled "The Total British casualties aboard the armed hand which stole the institution's funds and bru- Arab land is about as accurate as Great Gift of Our Lady of four warships are estimated at tally beat some of the nuns. the proposition that an Iowan Rheims," it enumerates in Gothic 45 dead and 100 wounded, news would be equally happy in New characters the anniversary inIn the attack on the leper hos- the head of the institution, Sister Zealand because he speaks Eng- dulgences granted agency dispatches state.) by Pope NicThe Rev. John F, Magner, S.J pital, about 30 bandits, armed Marie-Cenacle, was slow in com- lish." holas V. to the Rheims Cathedral, of San Francisco, officiated at the with rifles and iron bars, smash- plying with demands for the hosWhen pital funds, she and 15 other nuns burial services for the victims ed open the front gate. with on the staff were beaten rifle butts and iron bars The bandits seized the crucifixes which the nuns carried, and took from their fingers the simple gold rings that each Sister LONDON, April 22-(NC).-The cornerstone, cut wears to signify her dedication God. Searching the and inscribed almost a decade ago. for a new British to they dragged Sister The cere- rooms, church, is now scheduled td be laid at last. Raphael, a 74 -year -old invalid, mony had to be called off ten years ago because of the from her bed and clubbed her By LEILA CARROLL when she said she had no money. outbreak of war. (Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service). Sister Raphael has served the The stone, which is for St. DUBLIN, April 21-(NC).-Two farmers from Sheklung lepers since the settleAloysius Church, Roby, Liverment was founded in 1913. Trim, County Meath, have presented the nucleus of pool, was cut and inscribed in a The bandits stole approximatedairy herd for breeding purposes to an Irish missionary August, 1939. It bore the date STUTTGART, April 22-(NC) ly £1,400, the running expenses working in Nigeria, West Africa, September 10, 1939, when Archwhere the need for milk for the 600 bishop Richard Downey, of Liv- -The Episcopal Chancery of lepers. feeding and care of for the sick and for babies is very great. erpool, was scheduled to perform Rottenburg has issued a strict order that no chapel may be the ceremony. Lack of nourishment is cited However, war broke out on Sep- built on a spot near the village of as a main factor in the high inon the -line Tannhausen, border tember 3, and the Government fant mortality in that area. ment banned large gatherings, between Bavaria and WuerttemThis will mark the first transforcing postponement of the berg where a peasant woman portation of Irish live stock to claims to have apparitions of the Nigeria for breeding purposes. ceremony. Archbishop Downey will final- Blessed Virgin similar to those of Yet another innovation in Nily lay the stone on September Fatima. After a careful invesgeria is attributable to an Irish A diagonal line tigation by the Vicar General of 10 this year. missionary, the Rev. Bernard has been cut through the "3" in the diocese, it was decided that Dervin, S.M.A., who, when rethe "1939" and a "4" has been the woman appears to have been turning from a holiday in ' a victim of hallucinations, inscribed over it. BUDAPEST, April 21-(NC).-Because he continu- colntry, took back with him thisa of hurleys (sticks) with ed to sell 'pictures of JOsef Cardinal Mindszenty at the supply the intention of introducing gate of the church of the English Ladies here, after the ing, the Irish national game,hurlin Before his ordination Hungarian Primate had been sentenced to life imprison- Nigeria. he was a distinguished member ment, Stephen Muehsammer, former head of the Hungar- of the Roscommon County hurlian postal service, was indicted on charges of "inciting" ing team.
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Pope Outlines 1950 Mission Intentions
ROME. April 21.-(NC-Fides).-His Holiness Pope Pius XII has approved the following mission intentions for the Apostleship of Prayer for the Holy Year of 1950:
the people. The indictment was reported by the newspaper "Szabad Szo," organ of the National Peasant Party. which forms the agrarian wing of the Marxist bloc.
Archbishop Downey, of Liverpool, met Prince Philip for the first time when Princess Eliza-
beth and the Prince visited the Mersey port to open a new dock.
January: The Missions Threatened by Atheism; February: Christianity in Japan;
-Old Skeleton Vatican Joins Red Cross 400 Year22-(NC).-The Conference
April: The Missions in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika May: The Social Question in India; June: The Sanctification of the Native Clergy; VATICAN CITY, April 23.July: Christians in Moslem Re- (Radio NC).-The Holy See is gions; represented at the International the Red Cross Conference, now being August: The Conversion Protestants in the Missions; held in Geneva, Switzerland. September: The Indians of Latin Fifty-six countries are attending the conference. America; The purpose of the conference October: The Care of the Sick in is to further discussion and exThe Missions; amination of the draft Red Cross November: The Freedom and Conventions for the protection of Progress of Catholic Schools; prisoners of war and civilians in December: The Task of the war time, and related questions Church in the Philippines and that were prepared at the 17th. International Red Cross ConferFar East.
ence held last year in Stockholm, Sweden, and to sign the ) new
conventions.
Hospital Fund
EFFINGHAM, Ill.-(NC).-A drive for 2,000,000 dollars has been launched for a new institution to replace St. Anthony's Hospital, destroyed here recently in one of the nation's worst fire disMore than 70 asters in years. persons lost their lives, including C. C. San Rev, the chaplain, the don, and two nuns of the Order of St. Francis, who operated the institution,
LONDON, April skeleton of an unknown priest who died at least 400 years ago has been uncovered in restoration work on the beautiful vaulted klancel of the Saxon church of St. Mary, Stoke D'Abernon, Southern England. It was unearthed in the centre to be those of 13th. century Rec-
of the sanctuary, immediately against the site of the medieval stone altar in an unsealed stone coffin and in a remarkably good state of preservation. The position of the body, with the feet towards the east, clearly indicated the sacerdotal office, since laymen were invariably buried in pre -Reformation days with the feet towards the west. The report believed the remains
tor, Sir Richard the Little, the ornamental lid of whose coffin had been discovered earlier.
Architectural designs for a proposed roadside sign to indicate to passing motorists the proximity of a Catholic church have been prepared by students in the Department of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, U,S A.