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"Massacre
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Time Marches On !-Or 8.-(NC)Of Innocents" Does It?
Fight For Schools
LONDON,
July
A pointed comparison
of
pre -
Priest's Murderers
sent -day social conditions in England and those of 500 years ago, when the country was Catholic, was made by Bishop Ed-
ward Ellis, of Nottingham, at celebrations marking the city's LONDON, July 1.-(NC)-R. A. Butler. Conservative 500th anniversary. member of Parliament, declared that he had never contemIn the 15th century, he said, there was independence and seplated the "massacre of the innocent" which has taken place curity of work. Masters and as a result of the treatment of Catholic schools in some PARIS, July 9.-(NC)-The Paris War Crimes Council has men were members of the same county plans under the 1944 Education Act. craft guilds, which settled fair judged two German soldiers guilty of having taken part in As Minister of Education in classes. I do not think that we the prices, protected just wages, and execution of two Breton priests. The German soldiers regulated conditions of work. the former Coalition Govern- can do it. With the best will in ment, Mr. Butler fathered the the world the sum is beyond our are Lieut. Alfred Rochlau and Private Kurt Strobl. Marriage, said Bishop Ellis, Education Act in the House of means, but I am equally certain During fighting in August, two priests were arrested several was regarded as a sacred bond Commons and carried it through that we shall not surrender our 1944, at Plumeret, in Brittany, a hours later by the Germans and made by God and not to be dissolved save by death. Purity despite strong opposition from schools nor our claims to justice. group of French partisans asked shot on the spot. "If, through sheer financial two priests, the pastor of Plummany quarters. Under the Act Lieut. Rochlau was sentenced was the preparation for this holy Catholics must meet crippling pressure (and who shall draw eret and the rector from St. to hard labour for life and Pri- state. Widespread educational insticosts if they wish to retain their the line between this pressure Anne d'Auray, to go to the Ger- vate Stroble to five years of hard and persecution?) we are driven mans under a flag of truce and labour. tutions were in all cases the schools. work of the Church alone. EduSpeaking to the National So- into a corner, we shall fight." ask them to cease firing. The ciety, Mr. Butler appealed to all cation was generally free, even in the universities. Boys and education authorities to give girls in convents were taught Church school managers a real elementary medicine and suropportunity of retaining their LONDON, July 7.-(Radio, gery, home management and schools. NC)-The Jerusalem cross, conneedlework, in addition to the Two members of the English taining a relic of the True Cross, ordinary subjects. Hierarchy, Archbishop Joseph has landed at Dover in its world At the present time, Bishop Masterson of Birmingham and pilgrimage to solicit prayers and Ellis went on, there are 50,000 Bishop Edward Ellis of Nottingalms for the Holy Places and divorces a year. ham, have estimated the cost to refugees of Palestine. Catholics under the Education Although, he said, there is The 176 -pound 10 -foot cross, much to be admired in modern By M. MASSIANI. Act programme as some £66,000, which left Calvary at Easter utilities, none of these things is (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service) 000 instead of £13,000,000 as was blessed by His Holiness in itself a test of true progress. originally estimated. PARIS, July 9.-The Eucharistic Congress at Nancy has and Pope Pius XII en route over Bishop Andrew Beck, Coadju1 tor of Brentword, speaking at been even mere successful than was hoped. The children's Europe. crossed the English West Bridgford, Nottingham- day witnessed 75,000 participants. Nearly 140,000 persons Channel tied to the mainmast of steamer. It was disembarkshire, said: came from France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the ed by three dock porters and to sweat "We are being Special trains arrived even Italy. every three minutes. handed to 33 English bearers, the LHHORE, Pakistan, July 7.this out of the Catholic men and women mainly of the working Public safety was assured by 2500 volunteers and 40 doctors. first of a group of 100 who will (NC)-In an unusual commemthe cross through England orative event Bishop Marcel Nancy gave a triumphal wel- carry via London, Preston and Lanca- Roger Buyse, O.F.M. Cap., of come to His Eminence Eugene shire. Lahore, presided at a meeting to Cardinal Tisserant, Papal Legate The cross is then expected to congratulate Mr. Tayyab, a Mosto the Congress. He is a native be taken to Ireland and later to lem, on the completion of 25 of the city, where his father was United States. The exact de- years as headmaster of St. an employee of the City Govern- the of its U.S. visit have still Francis school at nearby Anarment. Some 50,000 people wait- tails kali. ed in front of the railroad sta- not been worked out. tion and gave him prolonged applause. Military honours were renderLONDON, July 7.-(Radio, NC).-Robert Mellish, Catholic ed by the 26th Infantry Regimember of Parliament from Rotherhithe, in London's dock- ment, in which Cardinal Tisserland, headed a group of four M.P.'s who investigated the ant once served as a private and which in 1914 he fought for London dock strike, centred about the Canadian ship Beaver - with the defence of Nancy.
Get Gaol
Private Returns As Cardinal
Pilgrim Cross
Unusual Jubilee
British Dock Strike Run By Reds
Boy's Dying Gift
brae. They informed the Government that the dispute was so seriously "riddled with Communist activities" that the BOMBAY, July 9.-(NC)War Office's counter -espionage agents should investigate it. Large crowds flocked to churches The group alleged that a Corn- intention of stirring trouble at in this area to venerate the cruLONDON, July 9.-(NC)-A church in the Hexham. and cifix used by St. Francis Xavier munist with a record as an agi- the docks. The British M.P.'s copied the in evangelising the Far East four Newcastle diocese has a very unusual silver chalice. It is tator joined the Beaverbrae crew ship's log, signed by the captain, centuries ago. The crucifix was unusual because mounted in its base are four pennies and in Canada on the insistence of in support of their contention. brought here by the Spanish dethe Canadian Seamen's Union, Their findings are based on in- legation, which had attended the one half -penny. The story behind this chalice is told by Bishop Joseph although actually ineligible, and formation volunteered by dock Xavier quadricentennial celebrations in Japan. came to London with the express workers, the M.P.'s stated. McCormack of Hexham and Newcastle. "There was a young boy who box. They found that all he had fell ill. He was just four years was four pennies and a halfold. He knew he was dying and penny. So his good parents be-
Makes. Unique Chalice
SLAVES MAY WRECK WORLD ECONOMY ti
he was quite happy because he gan to talk to one another about knew he was going home to God. what should be done with their dear boy's gift. "Before he said his last good"At last one of them said: 'We bye to his father and mother he will have a silver chalice made, asked for his money-box, and he and we will have these four pensaid to them: 'I give all this to nies and the half -penny fixed in the base of the chalice, and so After three more years of forced you.' By REV. ANTHONY COPPENS, S.J. "After he was dead, his father our boy's gift of all he had labour he was exchanged by the will (Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service) and mother opened the money - be given to the service of God.'" Russians for a Communist priBRUSSELS (Belgium), July 7.-A warning that the Soviet soner in Latvia. When the Reds Union will try to disrupt the economies of the democratic invaded Latvia in 1944 Bishop world through use of slave labour and the dumping of con- Sloskans escaped to Belgium. sequently cheap products was made here by an exiled Bishop who himself spent many years as a Russian slave labourer. Bishop Boleslaw Sloskans, about 20 cents. One of the purexiled Administrator Apostolic poses behind this slave labour LONDON, July 8.-(NC)--A new plan to increase the of Minsk and Mohilev, Russia, programme, he said, is to flood declared that there are now not the world with cheap goods and LONDON, July 9.-(NC)--A attendance of Catholics at Sunday evening services and to less than 15,000,000 people doing thus wreck the economies of the 15 -year -old boy from Beaumont attract the interest of non-Catholics was put into operation forced labour in the Soviet rest of the world. school near at Chingford, Essex, by the Rev. College, Jesuit John Howell, parish priest. Union. Bishop Sloskans was arrested Windsor, rescued three men Canon Howell's experiment, public Rosary, which was attend These slave labourers receive by the Soviets in 1927, accused whose boat sank after a collision no wages, no clothes, Bishop of being a military spy, and sen- in the River Thames there. The which will continue throughout ed by 300. Benediction was the summer, is to hold the grea- given inside the church. stated in an Sloskans address at tenced to three years of hard boy, R. Law, refused to give his a dinner here. The only cost to labour. name to passengers on a steam ter part of his evening service outside the church. their employer. the Soviet Union, At the end of his term on the launch also involved in the colAt the first such service Printed and Published by Keith is a daily ration of 400 grams Isle of Solovki in the White Sea lision, but they discovered it on (14 ounces) of rye bread, soup he was released, but almost im- his school cap and sent to the Bishop Andrew Beck, Coadjutor Francis Spruhan, at ''The Reand 200 grams ( seven ounces) mediately re -arrested and sent school's headmaster a message of Brentwood, was the preacher. cord" Office, 450 Hay Street, of boiled millet-all valued at to a prison camp in Siberia. praising the boy's heroic action His outdoor sermon followed a Perth.
Boy's Heroism
Open -Air Devotions