THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 3, 1939.
Abriers, Supreme Court
CARDINAL
PACELLI
ELECTED NEW POPE
Chooses Name Of Pius XII.
VATICAN CITY, TO-DAY. CARDINAL PACELLI, WHO WAS VATICAN SECRETARY OF STATE TO THE LATE POPE PIUS XI HAS BEEN ELECTED POPE BY THE CONCLAVE OF CARDINALS. Cardinal Pacelli will be called Pope Pius XII. His election was announced by Caccia Dominioni,
one of the Curial Cardinals.
A few minutes after, Cardinal Pacelli himself ap- peared on the balcony to the sound of the Papal March played on silver trumpets.
The crowd in the Square shouted "Long Live the
Pope.”
Three lines of soldiers kept the crowds away from the steps of St. Peter's, but there were several accidents in the rush.. Many women fainted and were lifted back over the shoulders of the crowd.
POPE PIUS XII, the new Sover- eign Pontiff, elected yesterday on the first day of the ballot.' · ··As Cardinal Pacelli, he was Secretary of State and the closest collabor- ator of the late Pope Pius XI.
EX-AMBASSADOR HEAVILY FINED
Hanover (Virginia), To-day.
Mr. William Dodd, former United States Ambassador to Germany, was yesterday fined $250 and costs in the case in which ho was charged with "hit and run” ~motoring offence.
Mr Dodd pleaded guilty. Reuter
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of the new Pope was awaited with
intense eagerness but over a half- hour elapsed before. Cardinal
The Pope imparted the first third ballot Reuter. Papal Benediction and the crowd・・ TREMENDOUS EXCITEMENT cheered wildly. ́ ́
Vatican City, To-day all the more so since it is without Caccia Dominioni, in his capacity As he retired from the balcony The white smoke, indicating the precedent that the new Sovereign as Senior Cardinal Deacon, appear- the great bell of St. Peter's. be- election of the new Pope emerged Pontiff has been elected on the ed on the balcony of St. Peter's to gan to peal, the lights of the from the chimney of the Sistine first day of the Conclave and such proclaim the election of Cardinal Square were lit and the crowds Chapel at half-past five yesterday an early result was, consequently, Pacelli. -- began to disperse.
afternoon and caused tremendous wholly unexpected. The Conclave of 62 Cardinals excitement among the huge crowd
The announcement was received had: elected the Pope in their gathered on the Piazza San Pietro,]
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