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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE
Dismissed By The Pope
ORDER SENT BY HAND AFTER
REFUSAL TO RESIGN
First Case For Centuries.
Paris, June 1.
THE Pope has deposed Mgr. de la Villerabel, Archbishop
of Rouen.'
The money is in full payment of The "Religious Bulletin"
the United States veterans bonus, published to-day in France, an- dun to the men who erved in the nounces the following: American arise during the months that the United States was at war with Germany, from 1917-18,
Compress voted this vast hunu
over President Franklin D. Roosevelt's
APPEAL AGAINST
SENTENCE
(Continued from Pays 1.)
the old woman and a younger one who was feeding a baby..
There was a light of steps Jending to a mezzanine floor. The door to this was bolted from the inside and a Chinese revenue officer had to go to an adjoining house in order to gain admittance. This floor sisted of two rooms in one of which con. was found two pill-making machines, On the table by the side was a
furnace facturer paraphernalia for
the of pills.
FOUND HIDING
taken back fo the floor where
15, 1936.
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Ecclesiastical circles here believe that it is the first but after an extensive search on the Nobody was present on the floor, time an archbishop has ever been deposed by the Pope. behind a basket of rubbish. lie was roof, the appellant was found hiding If such an event has happened it was many centuries ago. claimed all the materials where he
"NOTHING ON MY CONSCIENCE" said he lind bought for 3700.
Once more Mgr. Villerabel abso-two pill-making machines in use. There were found on the premisca lutely refused to hand in his resigna-one not in use, 4,200 finished heruin Ban "Mgr. Jean Chollet, Arch-
pilla, sufficient paste for the anaking of another 69,000 pilis, 3/4 ounce of "I have nothing on my conscience," bishop of Cambrai, having been he salt, and if I resigned 1 shoulderon and 12 ounces of mix- named by decree of the Sacred he admitting guilt. You
of heroin and caffeine in course Congregation of the Consistorial, receive my reaguation."
will not of preparation. This showed that Average payment to each apostolic administrator of the
the appellant was operating a heroin- The weight of the mail is 300 tons diocese of Rouen a vacant seat, vcclesiasticnt officials from CambrHazlerigg said that hed the appellanti
Mgr. Chollet then enlled two pill factory on an extensive senle,
Referring to the sentences, Mr. Saturday, who had accompanied him
been sent to this Court for trial, as no receive the bonis personally. It is!
Simultaneously Mgr. Villerabel um. the Magistrate could have sent him, Vicara-moned his lawyer and another oficiale could be fined $10,000 and sent felt that a real stay-at-home day may General and informed them that of Rowen Cathedral.
to imprisonment with hard labour for be anticipated.---Beater,
tion. Then Mgr. Choilet read before the 10 years, a fact which showed the their positions would be main-tittie assembly a decree from the serious view taken in such offences. tained."
Supreme Roly Congregation at the Holy Offee withdrawing from Andre the du Bola de la Villerabel his entire the episcopal powers.
veto,
7799
veteran is $
The Post Office lins asked that every took possession on ex-soldier remain be his house Second of May." 'morrow until the postman knucks and
BRITISH AUTHORITY ON PORTUGUESE VISIT TO CAMOENS GROTTO
Maeno, June 11.
Among the visitors to Marne who called at the Grotto of Luiz de Camoens, was Surgem Comander St. George Doliste Gray, 1.N., a scholar with
extensive knowledge of Portuguese literature. The Grotte of the celebrated Portuguese poet was the scene of a rommenierating fune. tion on Wednesday.
It is not often that Macau is favoured with a visit of an English- man whose knowledge of Portuguese embraces a thorough understanding of the Portuguese classics. Surgeon Comniander Gray was the guest of H.E. The Acting Governor of Macno. Dr. J. Pereira Barbost, during his short siny in Marno and left for Jongkong yesterday.
Surgeon Commander Geny is going to England where be is to substitate Professor Edge Prestage in the Chair of Portuguese Language, Literature and History in the Univer-
pondent.
"He assembled the
The bulletin comes from Pope as supreme head of Roman Catholic Church,
nesses,
PROTESTS IGNORED
Пл wit-
ACTION IN CIVIL COURT
He closed up the document and The deposition of the Arch-announced that he would net ns ad- bishop, who is over 70, has causedmnistrator in the archbishopric for
sensation without parallel for
Marr Villerabel continued to pro- many years in French Church tot, declaring that he would appen! circles,
to the Pope,
The main reason for it is that the
Archbishop took action against his private secretary in connection with the enthedral funds in the civil court instead of in the ecclesiastical courts of Rome.
The matter was discussed recently between the French Envoy at the Holy See and the Pape. On Friday, May 1, Mgr. Chollet announced that he wouht visit Roven an the next day. 1e had already done xo several times this year.
to Rouen Cathedral. Here he sum- Mer. Chollet left the room and went moned the canons nad vicars-general and announced to them that there was no longer an Archbishop.
Those officials of the cathedral who were attached to Mar. Villerabel personally then resigned, and reinstated under the administration of Mgr. Chollet.
were
course
Revenue Ofleer Grimmitt then give evidence, and in reply to Mr. Hazlerigg he said this WH3 the biggest heroin pli factory he had ever, raided in the
of his experience. witness dented that the door
Cross-examined by the appellant, opened by him. He was not leuning on the railings on the seming hiding behind a basket of rubbish.
Asked if he wished to give evidence, the appellant plenicfl guilty to the offence but asked the Court for Jenteney.
APPELLANT SATISFIED
Wax
His Lordship: You are appealing nguinst the sentence on the ground any event have to be varied by of severity. That rentence will in substituting a term of six months lleu of one year's imprisonment In default of payment of the fine, in
happened to Him to-day but declined The Crown Solleitor has asked me Mgr. Villerabel confirmed what had which was imposed by the learned Magistrate in excess of his powers, to make n statement about the future.
Mgr. Chollet will remain at the further vary the sentence. by Archbishopric until the Pope names ar
awarding imprisonment with hard He told him that he had come at new archbishop.
labour instead of simple imprison- the express orders of the Pope to remind Mgr. Villerabel that he had been mentioned here as a possible tence too severe?
The name of Cardinal Lienart has incnt. Will you please explain to me why you consider the original sen- bren requested to hand in his resigna-acceptor. tion several times without his doing The charge against the Monsignor
the Vatican."
On arrival, he went straight to the: quarters of Mgr. Villerabel,
sity of London. Our Den Carres-pe, and that he came in this instance is described here as "rebellion against
for the last time.
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prisonment on the drat charge he that as he was given one year's im-
The appellant replied by saying:
thought it rather severe to be giveți, another year of the second..
His Lordship? I shall have to rectify the sentence, so that you cannot serve more than 18 months'. Imprisonment-one year or plus six nonths in default of the fine. Do you consider that excessive?
Appellant: No.
Do you conalder it excessive to vary the sentence to one of hard labour instead of simple imprison- ment?----No.
His Lordship added that the Magistrate had proceeded on the wrong principle in the sense that he imposed the sentence in excess of the | power granted him.
But having regard, "...--said-His Lordship, "to the very serious nature of the offence,
do not consider that the varied sentence was in any WHY excessive or unjust. Ini many ways аг offence of this kind
more grave than an offence involving physical violence, for the; reason that a person who seeks to make his livelined by running our of these drug factories is seizing to enrich himself by the degradation of in fellowmen, The sentence upon you will now be one year's imprison- ment with hard labour plus six months' hard labour in default of Le line of $2,500."
JAPAN DENIES CHINA PLOT
(Continued from Page 1.)
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was to urge the Central Government to adopt a more positivo against Japanese aggression and to policy arouse the whole country to support that policy.
Asked Free Passage Questioned concerning negotiations with the Central Government General, Chan said that the South-west Political Council had telegraphed to Nanking asking for free passage for the South-west troops to the frontlers of North China but no answer had been forthcoming.
the
He asserted that roports to effect that the South-west has reject-; ed the invitation of the Central Gov- ernment to confer on the matter in Nanking in July at the meeting of the Central Executive Committes wero Hutterly groundless." invitation came in a routine circular Tha letter sent to all provinces, he said, and the South-west had not yet dis- cussed the matter.
n now
and
He said that the Council had issied orders halting the northward advance and that the South-west troops were marking time on the Kwangtung- Hunan border-some in cach province,
"The only basis for more satisfactory understanding be- tween the South-west and Nanking" the Marshal concluded "would be based on a joint polley of positive resistance against Japan. This polley, enco adopted,, would leave no need for any further changes in the political relationships between Nanking and the South-west-Vailed Press,
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