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DEATH

HARRISON.-At the Queen Mary Hospital, at 1.30 p.m. on March

3. 1930, Blanche Maud Louise Harry Harrison. A Funeral aged 30, beloved wife

of G.

Service will be held at the

The Consistorial Hall at the Vatican has its walls decorated with fine paintings and frescoes, Here, under a gold- lustered ceiling, the new Pope will hold audiences.

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 5 p.m., cremation following,

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Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 March 4, 1939

China Hits Back WHEN CANTON and Hankow

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

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Pope Pius XII is the first Papal Secretary to become Pon- tir.

2.

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

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ESTERDAY the 262nd Pontiff to

St. Peter's Throne was occupy elected by sixty Cardinals assembled in secret conclave to elect 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.

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He will receive more homage fell five months ago, Japan-than all the temporal rulers of ese commanders boasted jubi- the world. lantly that the "China Incident" Hundreds of thousands will was at an end that anti-Japanese claim the privilege of audience clements 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 domis 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. northern provinces and centrallions of prople, white, brown, blood of the first martyrs.

after Luther's revolt against 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 According to this, over 92 Church."

ferred his Sec from Antioch to the Church, have-to-work-in-the- per cent. of that aren is still fully

Rome in the year 42. He was world and keep close contact Their field is the or partly controlled by the

crucified by Nero in his circus, with men. Chinese Government.

and the relies lie under the High globe from China to Paraguay, Church,

which from Rome to Russia. Altar of that basilica

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HIS NAME is Eugenic Pacelli. Japan controls the main cities Unlike his predecessor, who and towns, it is true. But her was sturdily bailt, as befits a

bears his name.

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

THOU art Peter, and upon this Rock will I build My were the words by which Christ appointed Peter Patiently he outlined his be the head of the Apostles, who In- were the teaching and governing garrisons are constantly harass-man who conquered mountains, The great dome of St. Peter's, liefs. I summarise them. 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. A divine revelation was sign to overy Roman Catholic message to the finite mind of puppet regimes, governments in

was St. Peter. Plus XII is name only, work beneath the to Switzerland, for a vacation in the world, and that. Faith is per- needed, and Jesus Christ gave it. THE FIRST Bishop of Rome

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But to understand what Jesus Peter's 261st successor. manent and indisputable. or assas high, dry bracing air.

said and mennt, a contemporary, The Popo has an episcopal See Frail in physical strength he

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infallible teacher was essential. I asked Reconstruction has made no is an Atlas in the will to con- WHAT IS that faith?

The Pope and the Church ful--St. John Lateran-in Rome,

But as Apostolic Successor, to progress. In Tokyo the Budget quer. He is a known diplomat

for enlightenment from a filled that need. They were the Boars into figures of astro and an expert jurist.

priest whose name is known at infallible guardians, heralds, and Peter, as Vicar of Christ and as nomical proportions, relations with Britain, and the United Born in the Eternal City, he least in every English-speaking interpreters of the Revelation of universal bishop, the Pope occu- God. They were instituted by ples the throne of St. Peter in the. States remain strained, and the will celebrate. his sixty-third He is a member of the Society Christ, and they have remained basilica of St. Peter which is the

of Jesus, that body of men unchanged ever since..

shadow of dismissal sination.

quarrel with Russia flares over birthday next month. Almost the question of fishery rights in all his life has been spent in ́the Russian waters-n question that

will come to a head with the priesthood, and his service to auction of fishery rights in the Pope Pius XI took him to the far middle of this month.

corners of the earth..

broken.

Meanwhile, China's urmies 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 The Chinese believe to-day Ring by virtue of a long, un- that their military position is broken succession of his prede- brighter than at any time since cessors back to St. Peter,, the the beginning of war. Apostle of Christ.. Guerillas sit once again astride

the

the Yangtse, the only lifeline of

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Bishop of Rome and Vicar

the invading hordes in centralS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII, Chinu. If the Chinese succeed

In holding their positions thero,

the Japanese positions in Han of Jesus Christ, is the 262nd kow and further westward will Pope. A ribbon of white smoke Issuing from a chimney in the Sistine chapel told the crowd

always be fraught with the gravest danger, since severed

communications would be fatal waiting in the rain-yesterday. that the next Sovereign Pontiff

in the face of continuous pres- has been found. sure from regulars and guerillas

in the vicinity of the Wuhan Walled up inside the Vatican cities.

the 60 Cardinals elected him Still more Important than all after two days deliberations. this, however, is the report Their final yoting papers were yesterday that Britain is pre burnt In the stove and, for the pared to extend further credits first time, straw was not added to China, and that £10,000,000, to the fire. The issuing smoke will shortly be avaliable for our was therefore white and not neighbour. Japan, which needs black. Pius XII was called upon credits much more than does to guide 884 millions of people, Chirin, will certainly not get any Including 18 millions in the Bri- from her so-called allies the tish Empire and 18 millions in Totalitarians,

the United States of America.

country.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

1939 by Unčina zvaturn Beatlekti, kúés,

By Lichty

Universal Sée.

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 dals are the fabella, the ostrich plumes which are carried in procession beside the Pope cardinals, bishops and, at back, of them, sit the most privileged wor-i shippers. Here, surrounded by baroque splendour and breath- taking ceremony the Pope fa enthroned at the head of his world.

CO PIUS XII sits on the throne. of St. Peter and the Michael Angelo dome soars into the sky, a sign of a faith which has en- dured the attacks of the Romans, the Huns, the Goths, the Van dals, the Saracens, the Luth Ferans,, the French”-

Pina XII rules state over a City

dal Kin-dom” Hirotell