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The Pope can

Do It!

TN the autumn of 1917 things

were looking black for the Allies,

The armies of the Kaiser were making a determined assault on the Western Front, which in a few months gathered in intensi- ty and almost gained its object..

At this time, when things were brightest for Germany, a clergy- man forced his way into the presence of the German Chan- in cellor, Bethman-Hollweg, spite of officialdom which tried to bar his way.

With high-pitched peremptory voice, the clergyman said, "I de- mand to see the Kaiser!"

The German Chanceller repli-

the

ed. The Kaiser is on Western Front, leading his armies to victory. You cannot

see him."

He Found

By the Rev. W.

ROWLAND

JONES

VICAR OF DENTON, Manchester.

He is a brave and during man, caring nothing for personal risk.

I shall never forget meeting him. It was far easier than meeting an English Bishop.

We stood-men, women and children of every nation and the Fontiff, clothed simply in white, passed between us with a word and a touch.

Then he spoke, and the crowd

of human reason. In the application of that gode, his duty is clear.”

What thon, would I do, if I wero Pope? I would issue an order, and enforce it with all my authority, as well as with all the discipline available in the Church of which I was Head, and the terms of that order would be as follows:

Since it is clear that justice and right in this struggle are on one side; since it is clear that the Dictator countries have violated the fundamental prin- ciples of Christ and of His Church,

"I bid every. Catholic' in those offending countries to cease to fight and to cease to assist in any way the immoral objects of the Leaders of those pagan countries; and moreover i declare that failure to obey this Papal command shall result in immediate excom- munication; I call upon my. Bishops and clergy in all countries rigidly to enforce this excommunication."

NEW WEAPONS AT

SEA

by "Taffrail"

(The Famous British

Naval Writer)

While warfare at sea has greatly changed with the gradual march of science, it is the fact that no weapon yet in- vented has not eventual- ly been met by its antidote. Yet with the advent of each new weapon, its enthusiastic

The clergyman insisted.

not The cold retort came back, "If

What would be the effect? I supporters have you go, you will probably be pressed around him. It was all

to predict the killed, as you will deserve to be." so homely and natural. I could

picture a street in Jerusalem am convinced that Catholics failed

In a week the with the Master passing to and would obey it. fro, or the Sea of Galilee, with power of Mussolini would be complete obsolescence.of.

broken, and in less than a month this or that. the crowds thronging.

at most the war would be

Years ago, when rifled guns What an opportunity this finished.

greatest of our Within twenty-four hours, the

Catholics would choosd firing explosive shells were first Leaders possesses between their tyrants and their invented, many people visualised Hongkong Telegraph. clergyman was on his way to the man-the Western Front. Right into the religious danger zone he went, without There are seven hundred million Pope, between their nation and the disappearance of battleships.

until he found the Christians in the world, and half their Church.

of them are Roman Catholics,

The

Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 28015

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BEGINNING OF THE END?

THE war in Europe and international interest in the BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO. American Presidential elections

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WHY NOT START A

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have succeeded in overshadow ing the importance of the re-. markable situation which has. developed during the past month in China. The Japanese are on the retreat in and from a coun- try which they believed could be conquered so easily that they

refused to take seriously the opposition until twelve months

-ago.

It may be premature to write down the wholesale withdrawals of Japanese troops from Kwang- si and other parts of South

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possibly the movement has some ulterior motive, such as the use of these forces for striking at a new point. But the moral (and so far as the Japanese public are concerned, demoralis-

ing) effect cannot be overesti- mated: almost overnight the whole of the Kwangsi province has reverted to the Chinese. And the implication is that this dramatic exodus is a blunt con- fession of the abandonment of the promised movement against Yunnan and the southwestern provinces.

The Japanese military chiefs have plended that, the withdrawals are

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when viewed in the light of reports of hard fighting on many Kwangsi fronts; more likely is it that the re- Chinese organised, well-equipped troops are proving too much of a match for the Invaders, whose lines of communication wherever they

The Kaiser

moored

What happened was that the hesitation,

I do not doubt how that choice. design of battleships changed, Kaiser.

the wooden sailing vessels giving "I have come," he cried, "from under the leadership of this one would go. If the impossible happened and Catholics in enemy Pope Benedict, to bid you end man.

Two qualities mark out the countries denied their Faith and way to armoured ships of iron the war!"

The Kaiser did not drive him Roman Catholic religion from all chose their nation, it would be and steel propelled by steam.

It adherents give un- Calvary for the Catholic Church The introduction of away, but listened to his ples for others.

questioned loyalty to the Pope. but it would awaken in an un-mines and torpedoes, and, more recently, of submarines and air- peace.

actually They also value so much the imaginable Resurrection. Negotiations were

Why is it that the Sovereign craft, were also predicted by started, and although they did privileges of their religion that not succeed, they at least showed they would sacrifice everything Pontiff does not take such their supporters to have rung what a far-reaching effect that else rather than be cut off from action? He has himself spoken the death knell of large surface in words just as clear as those vessels. The truth, of course, is bold act of the clergyman had. them.

These two characteristics of of Hilaire Belloc. What holds that the design of all classes of The name of that clergyman?

the Roman Catholic religion put him back?

warships have changed to meet Cardinal Pacelli.

Is it fear? I cannot believe it cach new menace to their exis- His present office in the unimagined power into the hands Church? Pope Pius XII, Bishop of one man--Pope Pius XII. No of such a man. Is it expediency? ience.

In the war of 1914-18, in the of Rome, Prince of the Apostles. other religious Leader in the Caiaphas for expediency crucifi- My recent article, "If I were world has anything like such ed Christ, but I cannot believe that the Bishop who dared to

tanks, gas and sundry other the Archbishop," produced some power.

Moreover, the leaders of face Kaiser Wilhelm would quail weapons introduced new methods critical letters, but also an

of warfare. For a few weeks enormous number of friendly Roman Catholicism have definite- before Adolf Hitler.

There can be only one reason. ones. Many of these are from ly stated that members of their

faith can have only one side in The College of Cardinals which or months their users reaped the of surprise. But Roman Catholics.

a suggestion this conflict, and that is the side is the House of Commons of the advantage was temporary One sums up contained in many of them, in of Great Britain and her Allles. which the Pope is Prime Minis- When once their secrets became Hilaire Belloc, in a pamphlet ter-is composed of seventy known both tanks and gas were following terse words:

of "Canterbury? entitled "The Catholic and the Bishops and Priests. Of that taken into use by the other side Archbishop

asked what should number, thirty-one are Italians. and the necessary antidotes were

the

Why not Pope? Would to God war," you were!"

A

Great

Opportunity

By the side of the Pope I am a in ex- pigmy-in intellect, perience, in ability. I am not of

be the attitude of the Catholic Only one is English, towards the war, quite apart from his national allegiance.

To Destroy Outrage

"If I Were Pope"

fighting on land; the use of

advantage

invented.

It is the same with "Afth column" activities and parachutists in this war. Britain having learnt lessons from Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France, has already taken the necessary precautions to resist a form of warfare which was fully visualised a year ago.

are no

Can it be that this vast Church which uses the magnifi- cent word Catholic (it means Universal) is not universal at all, In closely reasoned phrase he but Italian? Can it be that this

novelty. his Church, but I gladly pay him argues the matter out on moral vast Church which claims to be

Magnetle mines grounds, and comes emphatically above all the nations is only this tributo:

the expression of one nationali- They were in existence in 1018. When He is a great man, and a to one conclusion.

they were first laid in this war, how- humble follower of his Master.

ty?

some time to Can it be that there is one ever. Britain was caught rather un- Although he is forced to live in

prepared. It took the Vatican, his private apart-

loyalty for the Catholic in Eng-evolve the new methods of sweeping, land, and another for the and the "de-gaussing" belts or girdles ments are simple and his habits

with which ships are now fitted for Catholic in Italy and Germany? the purple of neutralising their frugal to a degree.

ascetic in. Although

ap- pearance, he does not live remote from the world. He is a profund student of the world, of its literature, ancient and modern, of its science, its inventions, its discoverica.

"We are fighting this war," he says, "not only to chastise and break Ger. many's contempt for honour, but also to destroy an outrage upon our com. mon and European civilisa- tion.

"To a Catholic, possessed of a clear and universal code, moral and social, to a Catholic specially respectful

་

I leave Catholics to answer | magnetism

And

rendering them But now that these anti- these questions. As for me, I immune.

dotes have been invented, magnetle know what I would do if I were ines have lost much of their terror.

Pope. I know, too what Peter would do. Above everything else, I know what Peter's Lord and Master would do.

NEGRO RALLIED COLONY

BEHIND DE GAULLE

By VICTOR SCHIFF, High School for Colonial Ad-among the coloured populations

Former "Dally Herald" Paris Correspondent

devoted to France.

•

Submarines have been bereft of much of their potency against mer. chantmen by running British trade in convoys protected by escort vessela provided with the detecting devises known as Asdics, and depth-charges for attacking the submarines when located.

The fast German motor-torpedo boots known as "E" boats, the lineal descendants of the constal motor- boats of the last war, are best coun- tered by destroyers. Easentially fine weather craft, they posses a nuisance

known, the

One, a pupil of the French caused an enormous impression value, little more.

Nor has air power in this war ministration, was Eboue.

shown itself to have any decisive For more than a quarter of a "My successor, M. Georges effects upon the movement of fleets,

squadrons, conveys and ships operat century I completely lost touch Mandel, was so satisfied with ing within easy striking distance of Bombs & Petrol for a have established a fighting front in

his services that he gave him German aerodromes. It is true that Chief part in rallying part of with him. Visit to Berlin.

Then, one day, I saw his name another promotion three years losses have been inflicted, as they China

have always been highly the French Empire to the cause vulnerable.

of General de Gaulle's Froo in a list of colonial promotions. later as a Governor of the most have also by submarines and mines, and that ships lying in harbour may 1 naked the former Socialist important part of French Equa-be liable to attacks. But it is not The debacle of the Japanese around Frenchmen, has been taken by Colonial Minister, M. Marius torial Africa, the Chad terri-true to say that aircraft have pre-

a Negro.

tory."

vented the British fleet from carrying Moutet, about him. Ichang is certainly no voluntary

Ho is M. Eboue, Governor of "Yes, it is the former Faris So popular is M. Eboue among on its normal functions. As is well- withdrawal; the story there is that

chief task of the Royal spirited, carefully trained Chinese Chad Colony, in French Equa-Rugby player," M. Moutet told the natives that his decision is Navy is to guarantee the continuance likely to have tremendous reper- of the overses trade which brings in

raw materiald troops are whipping the tired and torial: Africa, and the first me. jaded Japanese forces in open battle. Negro to attain the rank of "My attention was first drawn cussions throughout the French the food, the

munitions upon which the welfare of the British nation and the prosecution Two years of nerve-wracking, weary- Governor in the French colonial to him by an English friend, & African Empire.

former governor of a British Its effects will be felt' parti- of the war depend. This can only ing guerilla warfare cannot but have service.

M. Eboue, acting jointly with colony, who told me that when cularly in the Cameroons, the be done by destroying or iminoblising left its mark on the Invaders, who,

British trade. often short of supplies, have con-'

While Germany and Italy are The natives there are deter blockaded, with no merchantment touring through French African former German colony, now the naval forces which threaten possessions he had met an ex-under French. mandate. tremely clever and distinguishod colonial administrator who was mined to resist German annexu abroad in the wide oceans Eriilalt tion; for they remember, the merchant ships continue to run. ja Negro..

-- Repercussions

cruelty of their former rulers. That is the proof, if proof be needed; Thirty years ago I played in

"I was so impressed by his The Chad colony is closely that neither the German fleet not

derman submarines, mines and ar

nor any new weapong have the same Rugby team at the

kexin Paris, with two or to the rank of a Governor in the and with British Nigeria by

students, West Indies, a decision which roads and regular air lines.

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pleased to

my born harassed by fresh, well- fed troops, who have also enjoyed the assistance of a ceaseless: Fifth Column among the Chinese peasants, here is evidence that the once Japanese forces are now -heartedly though?.

the Chad military commandant, Colonel Marchand, issued the proclamation of solidarity with General de Gaulle.

and

Sporting Club Universitaire de intelligence that I promoted Him Connected with the Cameroonsated the full do org fterilih Ben

Power