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The Balkan War Its Origin and Purpose By R. J. KELLY, B.L., IN
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Last June and July I had the hon- is holy. To relieve people from serour and privilege of attending at vitude, to bring peace and happiness to countless households, to save huPrague, the capital of the Czech kingdom of Bohemia, a most repre- man life and Christian virtue, that sentative and, as events proved, a is the aim and object and that blessmost portentous gathering of the ed purpose this war will, please God, leading men of the great Slav Sta- attain. The triumphant armies of tes, notably Bulgarians, Servians, the brave allied forces-the dauntMontenegrins, and Bohemians. It was less warriors of Montenegro, Bulga-. an unique gathering in many re- ria. Servia and Greece have everyOBI TUARY. spects. It was the largest meeting where covered themselves with im- "Let us return to Asia's fair domortal glory. Never in history was of these land -divided but racially-unmain, ited races ever before held, and it there such a splendid instance of su- Let us in truth possess the East THE REV. S. BURKE, D.D., SIDNEY. was the first occasion on which perb courage, splendid discipline and again. From Let us return ! across the fatal -Serb and Bulgar had met on a com- unwavering military success. the We regret to announce that mon platform. Now they are fight- the first encounter they succeeded. strait. in the ing side by side on the bloodiest Victory after victory, success after Our fathers' shadows welcome us once Rev. S. Burke, D.D.. died Lewisham Hospital on Nov. 27th. battlefields of our time and covering success followed their path and clowmore Dr. as the result of an operation. ned their actions. Town, fort, city, themselves with immortal glory. Khaleethe Back to the glories of an operunderwent nothing. previously mattered it and outpost, Burke sigother that There were Slays at fate, of nificant and impressive meeting. All went down before the all -con- Back to the faith we loved, the dress ation in the year 1908. A native Napoallies. all -victorious England, deceased, who was 41 years quering, There were altogether some 30,000 we wore, to 40,000 Poles, Russians, Croatians, leon's best battles were nothing to When in one age the world could of age, came to Australia as a child. He received his early education at Dalmatians, Macedonians. and count- General Ivanoff's, and the other Bulwell contain less others of the Slav race, but a garian, Servian, Montenegrin, and Haroon El Rasheed and your Charle- the Haymarket, afterwards studying at St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, common purpose animated themthe Greek leaders who have raisid themmagne." and also at the Irish College in determined resurgence of the Slav, selves to the pinnacle of now being his rise from serfdom to sovereign- the best soldiers in Europe. After This will be the end of the war. Out Rome, where he was ordained in 1904. ty, his evolution from being ruled to all, it is but as it should ne, that. of Macedonia the Turk, as a ruler, The deceased priest was a professor He at St. Patrick's Seminary, Manly, being a ruler. He has gone through the Turk should go. He never was goes, and goes in God's name. his long and tedious process of evo- acclimatised in Europe although here may remain here and there is a set- for a time was stationed at St. lution. He has borne the burden of for five hundred years. He haver re- tler and farmer, for under the Bul- Augustine's Church, Balmain East, and for the last seven years was at,servitude, worn the badge of slavery garded himself at home here-tie on- garian and Servian he will have for centuries, but at long last he ly looked upon himself as a sojour- peace and quiet, as his brethren luive tached to St. Thomas's. Lewisham. has resolved to rise from the sleep ner settled here for a time. Lord to -day, but while as a citizen and The last Sacraments were administHoughton in his Eastern Poems very co-worker he may be let alone end ered by the Rev. W. J. McCallion, of ages, and be is now with magni ficent courage asserting himself. Af- beautifully and truly expresses that left at rest, as a ruler he is !loomed, O.M.I., of Perth (W.A.), who was an ter all, nineteen millions of people, idea of isolation. Thus we read :- and never again, " while grass inmate of the hospital. May his soul grows," will he hold the fair prov- rest in peace. however locally separated, cannot be without weight in the councils of "When first the Prophet's standard ince of Macedonia and Old Ser via in YENNING, S.M., rested on Earope. I knew great things were his blood -stained grasp. Never again VERY REV. C. J. and Greece N.Z. once was that The land and of those men I saw be playground coining when will its fields the still was Rome watched their movements saw the his savage Khurds and Bashi-BazA fatality which caused widespread his our dominthat and We deemed that air of determination and resolve ouks, "to rifle, ravage and rape." regret occurred on the 20th inst. in ion marched This is what the present war has browas in their eye, how they (N.Z.), the victim being Wellington Eastin our Was sure as as there ught about and what those brave through the streets, how they went Very Rev. C. .T. Venning, S.M. the home ! ern through the exercises of the Sokols. soldiers of the Allies have effected, thought a single hour to at terrible sacrifice no doubt, but It appears that Father yenning was We never These men, I said to myself, were riding his motor -cycle, and, when pause with a courage that never was equalnot made to he slaves, and slaves no Till the wide West had owned Ma- led in the annals of war. Paying that turning the corner of Hill -street and Rut a few longer they will he Guildford -terrace, he seemed to lose hommed's laws." months have since elapsed and in the fine, they cannot submit to having control of the machine, which then interval the entire map of .1a :wn nd he goes on to say how could the fair provinces dragged from the The recoil dashed into the fence. grasp of the Turk handed hack to Europe has been re -cast. The i,lars they doubt their omnipotence when threw him off the bicycle, and he bein as is and massacre murder him to have, thank God, triumphed. Bulgadown going they found everything entangled in the machine. When ria is once again a power ;old a before them and submitting to their his wont. This was done before when came it was medical aid was procured State of great strength and re- rulethe ill-fated Treaty of Berlin forced found that Father Venning had sushack under the Turk Macedonia and tained concussion of the brain and sources. It was so in the fifth century, when its armies. as .'re its ar- "The dome to heavenly wisdom con- the other Christian districts, and at fracture of the skull. Two hours lasecrate tales to -day, bivouacked in the neigh-. least 50,000 lives have paid the pen- ter he died. During those hours he bourhood of Constantinople, and Still echoes with the Muslim's fer- alty of the surrender. How prophe- regained consciousness and received vent prayers; made its rulers quake on their throtic was Mr. Gladstone's warning in the last rites of the Church. and an nes. Servia was once a 'treat power, The just successor of the Khaleefate 1876 when with an energy The deceased priest was horn Emsign of the his brow on so Still I;e he antis will, Heaven and elovence that roused not only Eng- in Timaru in 1879, and was pire wears c:.piits regained again. It has land but Europe, he then said what a son VenJohn of Mr. tal of Vskub-won it in fair fight, by We hold our wealth without reserve the armed forces of the Allies are that town. He studied of ning, Dr fear, and the sacrifice of its brave soldiers, to -day saying with more effect, "Let at St. Patrick's College, Wellington, what it so dearly won it will not And yet we know we are but tented the Turks now carry away their abuand St. Mary's, Meanee, Hawkes Bay. here. surrender. Pitt said after Atiaterses in the only possible manner-by Ile was appointed to the teaching bend beneath of Christians Millions liti, "Roll up the map of Europe." carrying off themselves, their 7.ap- staff of St. Patrick's College, and in our rule, So may our modern statesmen. As ticks and their Mudirs, their Bem- 1903 he was ordained. He spent the neither are realms these .rol yet we knew its political geography a bashes and their Guzbashes. their whole of his priesthood in Wellingtheirs nor ours. few weeks ago Eastern Euroae a ill Raitnakams and their Pashas, one ton. For seven years he was statiotool never he again. Macedonia will he Salton and subject are alike the and all, beg and baggage, shall I ned at BOOlicott-street, and at the free. So will Old Servia, Flute, aad Of Europe's ready guile or banded hope clear out from the province beginning of this year he was transpowers the other places so long under the they have desecrated and arolatied. ferred to Hill -street. He displayed e:ainst the lords of continent and Surely grand words. h'-sl of the Turk. He has to go hag Would they great ability, energy and enthusiasm sea, and baggage out of the fair provinthe takto and advice listened were in the interests of the church, and ces he so long defiled. He may be What can one nation do, one people en. But alas, 36 years of woe upon paid special attention to furthering permitted to remain in tIonstanti- he." tale long woe have been added to the the objects of St. Vincent de Paul nipple for the present, but out of it of persecution, and what r..a..opean society. May his soul rest in peace. deThese lines fairly and accurately a go. As mast later he or sooner diplomacy failed to effect the artilruler he is in these days impossible. scribe the Turk. He never felt at lery of the four allied Powers has, & home in Europe. Round and about The conscience of the enlightened and the Turk is on the run :t last. Slav races is not so blunted as is him were dispossessed peoples, alien In the immortal words of i'eter the Valuators, and Comthat of the Great Powers. and his to him in blood, language and relig- Hermit when preaching the first Iru- Auctioneers, mission Agents. ion. He had nothing in common reign of bloodshed, his regime of "God wills it." sade, ESPERANCE, WESTERN AUSslaughter is at an end. His Kent,. with them, nor they with him. He TRALIA. kept them down by tire and sword, and Bashi -Bazooka must retire front Managers of the Standard Salt Os. but they have risen up and thrown The Rosary said in common sweethunting and murdering and massaerLtd. flit by hit he surrendered ly fosters the home life, which wa European peoples and go bark him off. ln The Esperance Land Co. Ltd., sae to their Asiatic homes. This is the the vast territory he won and could one of the must beautiful features the Christian family in the Ages of The Bijou Theatre. outcome of the present. bloody but not keep, and the sooner he gets is Agents The Melbourne Steamship glorious war. If ever war is just, hack to Asia the better. He may Faith, and the absence of which co., Ltd., Sun Insurance 0o., IOW. one of the crying evils of our time. till. is inst. if ever war is holy, this well say to himself !
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