PONTIFICAL
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 16, 1939.
REQUIEM MASS 23 Newspapers
FOR LATE POPE PIUS
XI
Striking Panegyric Delivered By PERMANENT
Rev. Fr. G. T. Byrne
CATHOLICS OF ALL classes and profes- sions gathered in large numbers at the Catholic Cathedral this morning to attend a solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass for His Holiness Pope Pius XI and to listen to a striking panegyric by the Rev. Fr. G. T. Byrne on the work for · peace by the late Holy Father.
Long before the service was scheduled to begin, the seating accommodation of the Cathedral was filled and many people had to stand.
one may be sold sill to breathe there
is very spirit, used readily to affection for such herole virtue."
me with admiration and indeed
We can well Imagine the Alpinist looking back to the cold night, so All the Catholic schools- und In-cold that the coffee was frozen linrd, siltutions were fully represented, and when a step in the wrong direction amongst those present were His would have fatal consequences, and Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry comparing with the mountain ledge Northcote, accompanied by Capt. the much loftler peak on which he
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TOMB FOR PIUS XI
Cardinals To Live In Cells For Conclave
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 15. EARLY THIS MORNING marble-cutiers descended the | Vatican grotto in which Pope Pius coffin had been lowered,
and took mensurements in order which will eventually cover the
to prepare a marble sarcophagus
coffin.
At present the casket is but tem-j porarily covered, on which only two words, "Plus Eleventh" are inscribed.
Stop Publication
To take their traditional holl- days in the lunar New Year, the 23 Chineso dally newspapers in Hongkong have suspended publication for a week, begin- ning to-day.
In contrast with the Hong- tradition, most vernacular papers in China take only s short or no
no holiday on the lunar New Year's Day.
In order to keep Chinese readers informed of latest na- ilonal and international deve- lopments during the holidays. a four-page morning paper will be Jointly published by the Hongkong Chinese Newspapers' Association.
All profits made from the Joint publication will be con- tributed to Use Chinese Govern- ment for repaying the recent British and American loans to. Chinn, It is sald,
RELIEF AID FOR CHINA IS URGED
Meanwhile preparations for the Reconstruction Of
ferthcunsing Cardinals' conclave are being rushed. It is estimated that it will cost about $100,000.
To-day, Cardinal Coma Y, Tomas,
Percy step in the wrong direction would be Noble and Lady Noble, Ills Excel-fraught with immense consequence, lency Major-General A. K E. Grasett, n Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, Iton. Mr. Leo millions where eyes turned to him under foot,
not only for himself, but for the rights of God and man trampled Archbishop of Toledo, and Primate D'Almada, Jnr., Ca
Capt.
churches razed to the of Spain, and Cardinal Segurea are 1. Costuing of the French cruiser Argus, and mem- Shepherd; and not only for those but women driven
to their Father, their Guide, their ground, religious orders of men and expected to arrive from Genon, where
from their houses, they disembarked last night. bers of the Consular Body, including for the vasler millions who, acknow-imprisoned, starved, attacked with Marqula and Marchioness G. P. di ledging no links of sanship, yet could insult and hatred, children made to
PONTIFICAL MASS Melito, Mr. F. A, Xavier, Mr. and
and blaspheme Christ.
not
Universities
LONDON, Feb. 15. MR. R. P. TOMLINSON asked
Mrs. J. M. da Rocha, Mr. and Mrs, help turning their eyes curiously de cociety one flads a break froin Hayes will celebrate Pontical Masssion of the Chinese Government i
A. G. Botelho and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Reyes,
CATAFALQUe in cathedral The Cathedral presented a scene appropriate for the occasion, the in- terior massive pillars being draped in black and white, while in front of the
to see how the new occupant of the See of Peter would face the most trying problems presented to modern Pope, perhaps presented to any Pope.
DIVIDED CHRISTENDOM Not only was Christendom divided Vinly seeking for some little spark
the
the
"In
in the House of Commons to-day whether the Government pro- posed to offer financial assistance On Thursday morning Monsignor to the National Relief Commis-
the tradition of their forefathers) in the church of St. Susan.
in view of the bencficient work hristian life, for the observance of sounded with the loud sounds of recent report.
makes for the uplifting of the This morning, the Vatican re-accomplished as shown in the] family ties and duties, and for carpenters' tools
protection of the sanctity of
Mr. Nails being driven into the fresh
R. A. Butler replied that wood echoed from the Sistern Chapel through their contribution to the to 'all these evits must be as workmen under the direction of a League of Nations, His Majesty's Cumillio, prepared wards the anti-epidemiological work or fleeing disciples, are weak in the "cuils" where which the years of struggle,
Unfaith and abandon Christ while He live during the conclave, and erected happily known as the Great Wor instead of the Calamitour War, hads oppressed with anguish and beset the oak armchairs, surmounted by
by the niles of Satan."
canoples which they will engendered. The mind of Plus XI
occupy The service, which was most im-was never for inoment in doubt,
during the ballotting for the new WORLD-WIDE CAMPAIGN pressive, was conducted by the Rt.
| Pope-United Press. Rev. Mgr. H, Valtorta, Vicar Aposto- Turning to the colleagues who had lic of Hongkong, assisted by the Rev. elected him, he said: 'I wish that my needed: the Pope realised this.
*A world-wide Noval, Rev. D. Giuseppe, Rev. L. first blessing should go out ns a Fung.
Rev. R. Gallagher and Rev. Fr. pledge of that pence for which concluded Daly, Rev. Fr. N. Maestrin! and Rev. humanity is longing. not only to Bro. M. Collconi acted as masters of Rome
and to Italy, but to the whole ceremonies, and other
Church and the entire world. I shall etergy present were ILE, Mgr. Deswolziere, Rev. Fr. Hive it from the outside balcony of T. Conney, Rev. Fr. Cecilio, Rev. Fr. St. Peter's C. Braga, Rev. Fr. G. M. Spado, Rev. It. S. Brookes and Rev. Fr. Pulit.
PREACHER'S EMOTION
muin allar was erected a huge eat but it was bleeding, sick at heart, undovided the cowardice and indolence specially appointed engineer to the Government already contributes to- falque where the coffin was placed under a canopy with a Pope's Mitre of love to consume the bitter hatred of individuals who, like the sleeping conclave, Signor the Cardinals will of the League in China.-Reuter. mounted upon a velvet cushion and surrounded with lighted candles and pots of ferns.
Fr.
Since 1870 the doge of the outside balcony lad closed. Pius XI threw it wide open, and with a magnificent resture of love nung his
campaign
Concordats
way
He
ANONYMOUS DONATION
London, Feb. 15, An unonymous doner has sent from Scotland, £900 to the conference of British Missionary Societies for the British Fund to relieve distress in China,
This brings the fund to over £172,-) 900,-outer.
MOMENTOUS 'CONCLAVE with the
Rome, Feb. 15. Signs are arising that the forth- Powers in whose Lands Missions, were established: with Chine, for coming conclave of Cardinals for the Pope will be
CHINA'S HEROISM example, to which he sent an Apos-election of a new folle Delegate. Perhaps it was to- momentous in the history of the wards China especially
that
his mis-Catholic Church,
London, Feb. 15. sionary sympathy
was particularly The election of an Italian Pope, Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, Warden of New manifest. In his personal message to although not certain, remains most College, and famous historian, was China he pays tribute
to the old likely. The implications of this are lost at a luncheon party in London culture of this noble
the causing some dissatisfaction, particu
held in order to bring pro- Foliowing the service, the Rev. Fr.
immensity of their number, the culiarly in American circles, Who speak minently before the public the work G. T. Byrne delivered the following arins wide open to the crowd below, tural qualities which welded them American church muthorities to what to help in the restoration of Chinese
of the
determined opposition of the of the International Student Service Panegyrle in a voice which at times to embrace them, and, oh, it only together in a unique stability whilst they consider to be Italian doctrine, universities and colleges destroyed Detroyed his emotion. Taking as bis he could, the vast sorrowing world other civilisations crumbled, excite namely, that the election of a Pope during the war. text "For a great door and effectuat is in a unity of peace through a unity his special interest. And he em opened unto me; and there are many of love: a great door and effectual phasiset his interest by his personal is essentially on Italian affair, and The principal gucats were Mr. Que adversaries" (I Cor. 16, 9), he said: was opened to him": he never closed consecration of six Chinese bishops, that the Pope must necessarily be an Tal-chi, Dr. T. Z. Koo, Viscount Cecil,
"On February 6,1922, a cold and it, not even to the many adversaries at the tomb of St. Peter in 1928, Italian.
Sir
Wardlaw-Nine, Sir Denison stormy day, the white smoke issued
Following an established custom of
They recall that in the 1922 con- toss, Sir Meyrick Hewlett, and Mr. slowly from the famous Vaticun
outlining his general
CLOSING OF THE DOOR aims in the first
clave there were only two North-Lawrence Binyon. chimney Cardinal Ratti had been encyclical letter, Pope Pius XI in his **'A great door is opened unto me American Cardinals, and their activi- Mr. Fisher said that China elected Pope.
Ubi Arcano Del (The Pope and the and effectual.' To-day dear Brethren, ties and Influence
were already showing the utmost heroism and de- "Cardinal Gasparri, than whom People) rives us the key to the in-we pause, in the midst of our work, strong, but they urged the claims of termination in building up her shut- Cardinal Mercier. fered .seats of learning in West und This time there is to States Cardinals. If, as is generally
The English branch of the inter-
possible consequence will be a de- £5,500 in 1930, and had promised to mand for an alteration in the com-contribute another £4,000 this year.
none could know better the lights spiration of his actions during the to reflect on the closing of this door, the late Belgian be three United South-West China.
and shadow-how deep the shadows
of the Papal throne, quietly marked:
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"We have necompanied Cardinal Ratti through fourteen stations of the Cross, and now we are leaving him alone on Calvary,"
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position of the sacred college, with EDUCATIONAL WORK
a more balanced proportion of the various nationalists,
crowded and complicated seventeen for the door of opportunity years of his porticate.
must close for every human life. the loftier "I have referred to
"The door is very different in size for Individual lives, and there are pealt than any Alpine outlook
few even who open to the full, how which the Pope finds himself.
"We must not forget that Popes ever small it be, the door of their have a
vision The man to mount this Calvary
of world
the
withhe which no other can compare. was '65 years of age.
Dr. Koo brilliantly described great man, for he was a great
the man, by whatever standard we wish matter how rast an empire, we can
UNBALANCED COLLEGE What was his
work of national reconstruclioti. In. own reaction?
At present, Italy with 40,000,000 which China had been engaged in the Whether the words of my text came measure is boundaries; no matter..
greatness: intellectual to his mind or not, there can be no how great the claims of a nation, scholars. Virile standard, of courage lics has three Cardinals: France, 600 children, and 112 universities and
standard?
He was a scholar amon United States, with 20,000,000 calho-mary schools, accommodating 80,- catholics, has 33 Cardinals: the past 30 years. She had founded pri- doubt that from the moment of his they are just "national" claims put-ch election to the very day of his death ting it in a crude
nd determination? way they
He never drew the spirit of those words was the gauged by banking and commercial back whn he had once set out to with 40,000,000 has six: Brazil with colleges. Thirty thousand students
has 40,000,000
one: the British and been compelled to become home- Spirit of Pius XI, and during the interests. But the "Holy Father climb a mountain, whether the steep Empire with 13,000,000 has three.
less by the destruction of the univer Seventeen years of his Pontificate he millions call him so has children of ways where perpetual cold chills never drew back from the open door, every nation, has an empire with no curance, or the still steeper with world affairs, the question of estimated to be at least £2,000,000.
As the Holy See must also deal sities, the total damage of which was nor hesitated before the adversaries; material limila, na his Master said, marshalled against the man of up- enters the controversy regarding the miles across China, and already 83
ways of duty when strong forces be the administration of Vatican funds 'for a great door and effectual
Students. marched hundreds of is "My kingdom is not of this world." right conselence. opened unto us; and there are many he adversaries.
"It is his bounden duty, if he be the right because expediency or self-
which refuses to be defected or composition of the sacred college universities and colleges were either Thirty-three years previously, as not unfaithful to his trust, to work interest or
rebulit, or were in the course of be- Ing rebuilt. Already 10,000 students had been accommodated in the capital of Szechuan, and, new centres were rising in Yunnan.
sees mankind as a whole.
are
own words a glimpse of this courage: eliminate what is evil for all. How
"It was impossible to take a step
comfort
Moral
standard,
Reuter,
points another
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Alpine climber, he gives us in histror the miserial good and try towny all these standards in uny direction. Anyone sitting can this be done? Pius X nimed at Rat, P Pope Pius XI, down found his feet dangling in the restoration of all things in Christ; amongst men.
our
Benedict at
we were careful not to lose balance,"
The year following his election to maxima contentione
the papal throne, on the occasion of rom
the tenth centenary of St. Bernard's birth, in n special Apostolle Lotter,
Christi in
regnu
Christi,
Big U.S. Defence Vote Approved
It was a vivid example of China's power of adaption under the greatest
renaissance would never die. of difficulties, and proof of her re- solution that the work of national
space; we had, however, every pencit: Pius XI, joining the two, and the universal world tributes to the reconcilation of "We, who stand on the low levels, facility for stamping them, provided determined to seek the peace of Christ his greatness bring home to us how of Representatives to-day endorsed
Washington, Feb. 15. By a vole of 307 to 15, the House chrough the reign of Christ, (much lower is the level on which we
Lord Cecil said that the Japanese debimus, stand, looking up to the lofty figure the new defence programine which
the now goes to Senale.
Invasion could not be regarded as art on his tally height, we might think that his life was, in every way, com- obstacle to the immediate approval determination.
The House removed the principal Isolated event. It was one phase in a the lofty peak where, in plete; that the door of opportunity of the bulk of the $552,000,000 de- under different forms in other parts which WAR visible he wrote: "The very sight of the sympathy with all, he scanned the could be opened no wider. Ho mountains where he laboured, and efforts of all, he saw old kingdoms would be the last to allow us to think by 100 to 127, a Republican attempt en current progress. China was Oght- fence programme, when it defeated, of the world, to set back the clock where traces remain, still deeply fall; he saw new political units co. impressed, of his holy life, so that emerge, all uncertain in their emer- STILL THINGS TO DO
to limit the proposed expansion of ing not solely her own battles, but for gence; he saw nations strive, nobly
the army nir corps to 1,000 planes a the cause of law, order, and freedom "We.draw close to the bedside of at first, to league together for mutual, the dying Pontif. Among his last
| year-Reuter.
for the whole world. Reuter support, and then angrily turn on recorded words, his Anal utterance one
GUAM INCLUDED another, for none of the old was 'I have still some things to do." batred
was deast.
"Recall, Cardinal Gasparri's words:
Washington, Feb. 15. "Kindly but firmly, he told the We are leaving him alone on Cal-
The House of Representatves Naval world that the
evil
les beneath the vary. Often
Affairs Committee to-day rejected by had he surface and its physicians had failed lingered there, and
te 14 votes to Ave a motion to eliminate diagnose
nose the real cause.
words of triumph which could have Guam Island from the naval aviation of Christ The empire
all been
Rangoon, Feb. 15. uttered by One alone, who authorisation B, and then approved nations was rejected. The right which walked
which authorises The Senate of the Burmese Legis- carth: 'It is Anished." 03 the Church hos from Christ Himself
Jesus so spoke: the best.
$68,400,000 for new and better avia-lature to-day passed a vote of non- of Hin to teach mankind, make laws, to go-disciples at the end of the chapter, tion bases at Alaska, in the Carib-confidence in the Cabinet,
under Premier Dr. Baw Maw,Domel. vera proples in all that pertain to must rest, his head on the heart of bean, and in the Pacific.-Reuter, their eternal
salvation, that right the Master to pray that He may re- was dented
nied... so the seeds of dis-pair what was Ford were sown far and wide.
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Requiem aeternant done el. Doming: eternal rest grant unto him, O. Lord."
UNIVERSAL REPARATION "Men speak of national reparation, Tow many of these words are the Pope reminds them of the larger his great labours for peace, unity And over his grave we pray that HOW
correct and what is wrong with need, Universal Reparation, without harmony, for purided world through the others?
which none of the world's illa will the purification of national life, of storbord
appointer be definitely repaired. There is a social life, and of individual life may pizicato
statuenque
triplo apostacy to be repaired: the tritumph' in a world which only statuery
uposito
apoštney of nations; the apostacy of realises their full magnitude and Angilah Oxford Dictionary mell-society, and the aposincy of indivi- their telnemers when the voice of imph of these words will be found on duals,
the Popo, in allent because the Pope We have seen', he writes, hoti gone.
of the measure
No Confidence Vote For Burma Govt.
GERMAN MOBILISATION Completion Set For Early March
WASHINGTON,, Feb. 15.
SIR WILMOT LEWIS, Washington correspo lent, for the would be completely mobilised hy March 6, in order to "frighten London "Times", stated to-day that Germany's military forces Britain and France into giving what Italy and Germany ́ ́de- mand for colonies”.
He said that his Information came: He added, that mobilisation of the from a Loudon news-letter cabled Nazi air force was already 95 per 10." Washington, by generally well- informed British hewspapermen per cent, compisted--United Press.
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A VIVID BIOGRAPHY OF A MIGHTY WAR-LORD!
One of the most
disputed rulers in
Chinese history!
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"The AUTOCRAT of CH'O DYNASTY"
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