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C.W.O. INITIATIVE AT FREMANTLE Church Parade at Official Opening,
Sunday, dune The new C.W.O. Depot for Allied Service Men will be opened by His Grace the Archbishop on Sunday next. His Grace will celebrate the 9 o'clock Mass in St. Patrick's, Fremantle, and Confessions will be heard for an hour preIt is anticipated that a very viously large number of Allied Service Men will receive Holy Communion. Following Mass, a Communion Breakfast will be held in the Depot. Owing to the large number of Service men anticipated, it will be necessary to con. fine attendance at the breakfast to them alone. During the breakfast, His Grace the Archbishop will declare the Depot officially open. No financial appeal whatever will be made on .
this occasion.
The Catholic Welfare Organisation,
which is well and favourably known through the Huts it maintains in the Northam and Melville Military Camps, has now completed arrangements for the opening of a Depot for the Allied Armed Forces in Fremantle. The Par-
ish Hall has been made available for this purpose, and with the considerable renovations and additional electrical instalations will now make a very comfortable centre for the men of the Armed Forces. All expenses connected with the repairs and renewals, amounting to over £200, has been paid out of the C.W.O. funds. A buffet for the provision of meals has also been arranged, and, after the official opening, special dance nights will be held
at the Depot every Wednesday and Sunday evenings.
The staffing of the buffet
will
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undertaken by the C.W.O. Auxiliary which is already engaged in visitation and distribution of comforts in Military Hospitals and in staffing the public buffets in turn). These ladies will also act as hostesses and dancing partners at the bi-weekly dances at the Fremantle Depot, which will be
conducted under the supervision of the Port Chaplain, Rev. Father D.
Breslin, 0.M.I., R.A.N.V.R. The Fremantle Depot will be conducted along similar lines to those of the other C.W.O. Huts, which have proved so popular with the troops. The
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aim is to provide a quiet recreational centre, where the men may read, write, listen in to the wireless, or play indoor games in comfort during the day time. The evening may be occupied in dancing, community singing, etc. In a word, every endeavour will
he made to supply something of the home atmosphere which the troops most miss. All facilities required for these purposes will be provided by the C.W.O., which will also defray all ex-
penses connected with the maintenance of the Depot and the Buffet.
Americans "b LieutrChaplain Masin, of the U.S. Army, responding to the welcome given to United States visitors at the Communion breakfast of the Brunswick and Coburg (Melbourne) group of the Catholic War Veterans on Anzac Day, roused great enthusiasm by referring to "brothers, not cousin, Americans." "We brother, not cousin, Americans," he said, amid a great burst of applause, "feel deeply with you the sentiments which this day are bound to stir within your hearts. We hope that as the days go by, we in your midst, and, through us, the 130,000,000 Americans back home in our beloved United States, will share more extensively and more thoroughly in your joys as well as your sorrows; in your extension of vitality; in the concrete awareness of your well-being. We likewise express the desire that this feeling of friendship and understanding be mutually reciprocated. "In the ominous thunder of the drums of war resounding throughout the world, we pause to -day to pay tribute to those men who laid down their
lives in the defence of their country in the last World War. Over broad fields now reposing from their labours, over the mighty mountains dimly towering in the distance, from out the
graves strewn over many lands, their spirit hovers, and dimly yet reassuringly come their voices, 'We gave up all for God and country.' It is fitting, therefore, that we set this day aside to pay them tribute; to laud their bravery; to pray for the repose of their souls; to pledge to them an undying assurance that the principles for which they fought and died will never be given up, but will be fought for, even as they are now; will be died for, even as thousands are laying down their lives at this hour, for liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness of all men.
Privilege to Fight Side by Side. "We Americans have always regarded it as an unusual favour to have had the privilege to fight side by side with the undaunted and heroic men of Australia in the last world struggle. We are proud and happy to fight side by side with them in the present crisis
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against a common foe, who acts without sense, without constraint, and without shame in a bloody panorama that was gotten up for the benefit of their own selves and their fickle pride, with ultimate ruin and destruction for their country and fellow-men. But today, in memory of the World War dead, let us pass over the consideration of these 'lords great only in that strange spell, a name,' their folly and their crimes. "There is no doubt that those of you who have suffered the loss of one beloved by you in the last war feel somewhat bitter. Perhaps sorrow and tribulation tear at your hearts to -day. But remember that suffering is not necessarily an evil, no matter what form of cross or disappointment it may take in life. It can easily be good for the sufferer. Lack of it can leave him soft and undeveloped, with the same effects as lack of conditioning in Torts. A man who has never suffered lacks that stability and poise that indicates strength and maturity. A certain amount of suffering is necessary in every man's life. Look around you, especially at certain adults who have weathered storms and adversity. (Continued on Page 10.)