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HARRISON.-At the Queen Mary Hospital, al 1.30 p.m. on March 3, 1939, Blanche Maud Louise Harrison, aged 30, beloved wife af G. W. Harrison. A. Funeral Service will be held at the

The Consistorial Hulf at the Vatican has its walls decorated with fine paintings, and frescoes. lustered ceiling, the new Pope will hold audiences.

A

Hére, under a gold-

ST. PETER'S THRONE

MINOR Vatican official's son who be- came Papal Secretary

Colonial Cemetery Chapel on of State has attained the

Sunday March 5, at p.m., eremation fallowing.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

highest honour that the Holy Catholic Church can bestow upon its sons.

Pope Pius XII is the Papal Secretary to become Pon-

Wyndham St., Hongkong tiff.

'Phone 26615 March 4, 1939

China Hits Back

WHEN CANTON and Hankow

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He was born within sound of the balls of St. Peter's, his father being connected with the legal department of the Vatican.

He will receive more homage fel! five months ago, Japan-than, all the temporal rulers of ese commanders boasted jubi- the world.

antly that the "China Incident"

will was at an end that anti-Japanese claim the privilege of audience

Hundreds of thousands

ESTERDAY the 262nd Pontiff to

YEST

occupy St. Peter's Throne was elected by sixty 'Cardinals › assembled in secret conclave to clect a successor to the late Pope Pius XI. Here is the story of the man who will shortly be crowned in a basilica which rises from ground that, in ancient days, was pounded by the wheels of racing chariots and reddened with the blood of the first martyrs. The new Pontiff is the son of a minor Vatican official. elements had been routed. But with him each year. They will HE will be crowned in a basilica vowed to poverty, chastity and which rises from ground obedience, and still controlled by how little of China Japan actual- come from all the cities, king- that, in ancient days, was pound- the almost military, discipline ly holds is shown by a Chinese donis and countries of the earth, ed by the wheels of racing which was imposed by the official report on the nine representing three hundred mil- chariots and reddened with the founder Ignatius Loyola shortly after Luther's revolt against northern proviners and centrallions of people, white, brown, blood of the first martyrs.

Rome. provinces which Japan has yellow and black, who hold the

St. Peter, according to the invaded.

faith of the "Holy Catholic tradition of the Church, trans- Jesuits, unlike many orders of Church.'

Terrel his Sec from Antioch-to-the-Church,-have to work_in_the_ Rome in the year 42. He was world and keep close contact THOU art Peter, and upon ☆ ☆ ☆

Their field is the this Rock will I build My' crucified by Nero in his circus, with nion. IS NAME is Eugenic Pacelli, and the relics lie under the High globe from China to Paraguay, Church," were the words by which Christ appointed Peter Altar of that basilica which from Rome to Russia, Unlike his predecessor, who Japan controls the main cities

bears his name..

Patiently he outlined his be the head of the Apostles, who In- were the teaching and governing and towns, it is true. But her was sturdily built, as befits a

The great dome of St. Peter's, liefs. I summarise them. garrisons are constantly harassman who conquered mountains, ed by the guerilla bands which Pope Pius XII is frail physically, swinging up to the heavens, is a finite God had to give a direct body of the Church. overrun the countryside, and her and whenever possible journeyed that there is Divine Authority in man.

sign to every Roman Catholic message to the finite mind of A divine revelation was puppet regimes, governments into Switzerland for a vacation in the world, and that Faith is per- needed, and Jesus Christ gave it.HE FIRST, Bishop. of Rome.

the name only, work beneath shadow of dismissal or assas- sination.

According to this, over 92 per cent. of that area is still fully the or partly controlled by Chinese Government.

H'S

high, dry bracing air.

Frail in physical strength, he Reconstruction has made no is an Atlas in the will to CON progress. In Tokyo the Budget quer. He is a known diplomat

into figures of astro- and an expert jurist. ' nomical proportions, relations

Born in the Eternal City, he with Britain and the United

Boars

manent and indisputable.

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Station HVJ is the Pope's radio station. From its parabolic aerial was sent out the nows of the election of the new Pontif.

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was St. Peter. Pius XII is But to understand what Jesus

Peter's 261st successor. said and meant, a contemporary,

The Pope has an episcopal Sec infallible teacher was essential.

St. John Lateran-in Rome, WHAT IS that faith? I asked The Pope and the Church ful-

But as Apostolic Successor to for enlightenment from a filled that need. They were the priest whose name is known at infallible guardians, heralds, and Peter, as Vicar of Christ and as least in every English-speaking interpreters of the Revelation of universal bishop, the Pope occu- country.

They were instituted by pics the throne of St. Peter in the basilica of St. Peter which is the Universal See.

God.

States remain strained, and the will celebrate his sixty-third He is a member of the Society Christ, and they have remained

quarrel with Russin flares over birthday next month. Almost of Jesus, that body of men unchanged ever since. the question of fishery rights in all his life has been spent in the Russian waters- question that priesthood, and his service to| will come to a head with Lhe auction of fishery rights in the Pope Pius XI took him to the far middle of this month.

corners of the earth.

Meanwhile, China's armies This is the man who now holds remain in the field and the spirit the Triple Crown, the Keys of of their leaders remains un-Heaven, and the Fisherman's broken.

Ring by virtue of a long, un- The Chinese believe to-day broken succession of his prede- that their military position is brighter than at any time since cessors Eack to St. Peter, the the beginning of the war. Apostle of Christ.

Guerillas sit once again astride

the Yangtse, the only lifeline of

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the invading hordes in central HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII,

China. If the Chinese succeed

Bishop of Rome and Vienr

in holding their positions there, of Jesus Christ, is the 262nd the Japanese positions in Han-

crowd

kow and further westward will Pope. A ribbon of white amoke always be fraught with the issuing from a chimney in the

Sistine chapel told the gravest danger, since severed

waiting in the rain yesterday communications would be fatal that the next Sovereign Pöntiff in the face of continuous pres- has been found. sure from regulars and guerillus

in the vicinity of the Wuhan Walled up inside the Vatican the 60 Cardinals elected him

cilics.

were

Still more important than all after two days' deliberations." this, however, is the report Their final voting papers yesterday that Britain is pre-burnt in the stove and, for the pared to extend further credits first time, straw was not added The lasuing amoke to China, and that £10,000,000 to the fire.

therefore white and not will shortly be available for our was nelghbour. Japan, which needs black. Pius XII was called upon credits much more than does to guide 334 millions of people, China, will certainly not get any including 16 millions in the Bri- from her so-called allies the tinh Empire and 18 millions in Totalitarians.

"the United States of America.

GRIN AND BEAR IT-

By Lichty

"Capt. 1879 by L'alled Frefuse Bendicale, ne.

"Slug's time was up xtx'months ago but he just can't tear him-

self away from his creation!”.

He does not literally sit on Peter's throne. This, according to church tradition, is encased in bronze and tops the tribune where the Pope sits.

The Pope sits on the tribune, looking down the nave to the apse where, over the tomb of St. Peter, stands the high altar. Kneeling beside him on the dais. are assisting prelates, and near his right stands the Master of Ceremonies who is responsible. for all the intricate details of the rite. At either side of the dais are the flabella, the ostrich plumes which are carried in beside procession

the Pope. Along the nave kneel cardinals, bishops and, at back of them, sit the most privileged wor- shippers. Here, surrounded by baroque splendour and breath- taking ceremony the Pope is enthroned at the head of his world.

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✰ CO PIUS XII sits on the throne

of St. Peter and the Michael·

| Angelo domie soars into the sky, a sign of a faith which has en- dured the attacks of the Romans, the Huns, the Gotha, the Van- dals, the Saracens, the Luth- erans, the French.

Pius XII rules in temporal. alate over a City, but his spiri- tual kingdom stretches to the ends of the earth.