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EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

IMPRESSIONS

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tigation Meeting a sister-in-law of the famous Professor Madariaga, who left his Professorship of Inter- national Law at Oxford to become the Spanish Republic,

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events. know- said that even to his own brother It has been the tradition of all Defebre, and 44 priests. There were but he evidently had more ages that pilgrims are. fair game also several Sisters of Charity from ledge of where he was than appear- he had never mentioned Spain since

Though a German, he spoke the civil war began. im-Chusan Island, and 2 French Sised. for all sorts of exactions and positions, and that tradition is by ters from Shanghai Plenty of very fluent English with an almost

One last impression. All the lead- no means dead. The pilgrims to high spirits among the younger complete. absence of accent. Incid- the Eucharistic Congress at Manila members of the party, who included entally he brought with him a full

the ing figures of the Congress seemed could were not held up by pirates or rob representatives of the big Hong cinema entertainment, with

Christian to be men with whom one either

sea or land, Kong schools and a number of boy story of the 26 "early the shipping companies scouts, but it was very noticeable martyrs as the feature. He gave a easily feel on terms of mutual un- could plead the big strikes that the conversation ranged over show at the great Jesuit College of derstanding. They came from the overcrowd-every subject except the usual gos he Ateneo which took a full two U.S.A., Canada, Australia, Eng- ing, but there would have been far sip and scandal that is the ordinary hours and delighted a crowded au- land, and the ends of the Earth. A most agreeable change Then the explanation flashed across less grievance if the companies had pastime of long hours in the sun-dience.

from the ordinary programme, with my mind. They were all Irishmen. stated clearly what their patrons shine in deck chairs

irst class nature "shorts". A man Whether of the first, second or third obvious generation made no difference. Ap- were to expect.. Travellers pay a first class fare are not con His Eminence Dennis Cardinal full of bonhomie and an soled for inferior accommodation by Dougherty, D.D., as the Hong Kong authority on his adopted country:parently "coelum non animum mut-

Spanish Delegation calling it A2, and third class is third journalists discovered when he class even if it is called B2. Many passed through was not in There were of course a number men are just Irishmen. What slept on deck, and found it not too clined to derogate from the of Spanish fathers and delegates, pity that England did not realise uncomfortable when conversations dignity of his position of repre- some from Cuba, and many from that fifty years ago. One other of merry parties of young people sentative of the Pope, why ranks South America Unfortunately, but thought. Many of these distinguish- were not prolonged till after mid-

of course, not merely as the Head quite intelligibly, they were unwilled men, who are authorities, on all night, except on one cold and blus-

of the Church but as an indepen- ing to talk on the subject that was manner of recondite subjects, have nearest their hearts. So far as spent a day or two in Hong Kong tery night

dent Monarch, reigning in his own The Hong Kong Contingent

right over the Vatican and one sumanything was said, it was a denial on their return journeys. Could The main Hong Kong contingent, mer residence, though those ter of the outrages attributed to Gen-we not have done something to re- as the plan for a special ship had ritories are what is left of much eral Franco's forces, which they say cognise their existence and tap fallen through, formed part of a wider dominion in days gone by, are enemy propaganda. The whole little of the information they could collection of 285 pilgrims on a ship He was however very much at home subject of imputed outrages during have

a war is one on which we years that arrived two days late. Even in PI, where he had for at home we are so cosmopolitan a been a missionary. He is at pre- community that there did not seem sent Bishop of Philadelphia, but to any distinction between us and has always retained his interest in those who had come on board here his old sphere of duty. The Hong and the 147 who came from China Kong party arrived too late to hear and Formosa. Almost everybody his address to the opening of spoke English with more or less the Congress, which was naturally fluency, and rarely is it possible to on the subject of the Eucharist and gather so much out-of-the-way in its meaning to the modern world. formation about places that one had The most striking feature of the never heard of before, or at most proceedings, as evidence of modern development, was the message from were two Bishops, of Batavia, and His Holiness himself, delivered by Ningpo. There was Monsignor Andre direct transmission and loud speak- ers to the immense assembly of perhaps a million people from : the sick bed at the other end of the world. The message was in Latin, and in an unexpectedly clear voice, A large quantity of rubber which though how much this was due to to has been washed ashore on the South amplifiers it was impossible Wexford coast near Tacumshin is judge. Every word was quite clear, believed to be the cargo of a steamer and the only sign of weakness was torpedoed during the war. The re- an occasional slight pause or break cent gales, it is thought, must have in the middle of a sentence for swept the sand from the hull sad breath. His Holiness commended burst the hatches The rubber, which is none the worse for its 20 years the cause of peace to all Christiana immersion, is being salvaged by a long- both for prayer and action, and “ex- pressed the utmost concern... for shoreman.

end the sufferings of Spain, to The Mersey lightship Comet receiv- which he would willingly give his a life if it could be of any avail to ed slight damage to her hull in glancing collision with the Irish Free put an end to the misery and-but- State steamer Lady Longford during

chery. a fog.

seen as names on a

map. There.

WAR WRECKS CARGO WASHED ASHORE

Social Gatherings After the opening day, with its Coun. A. W. Scott and Coun. T. N. Wechsler have been adopted as Con- big reception, there was much less servative and Municipal Reform cen- in the way of social gatherings than didates for Holborn in the forthcoming has been the custom at some pre- L.C.C. elections

vious Congresses. His Grace the Archbishop "O'Doherty, of the PL Among houser shortly to be demolish is a young and genial prelate, who ed at Rothwell, Northants, under a was in some sort in the position of slum clearance scheme are four in fas-street, recently purchased at a sale for 1 10s each

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