WITH THE ENEMY.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15768, 8 December 1916, Page 7

WITH THE ENEMY.

ABUSING BELGIUM. PROTEST FROM THE POPE. (By Cable. —Prosa Association. • Copy: (Australian and K.Z. Cable Association.) (Received December 7th. T.o p.m.) ROME, December G. The Pope lias protested against Germany's refusal to allow Cardinal Mercier to attend the (,onsistor\. The Pope's Oonsistorial discourse condemns the Belgian deportations and air raids upon open towns. A VAIN HOPE. (United Sorvicc.. AMSTERDAM, December 6. Tho "Zeitung Am Mittag" publishes an interview with Bulgarian statesmen which states that Bulgaria',; first condition of peace will be the relinquishment of Russian hopes for Constantinople.

TIIE TRAIN SMASH, (United Scrncc.) (Received December Sth. 12.20 a.m.) LONDON. December 7. A wireless message from Rome states that an Hungarian official enquiry shows tliat. the train disaster near Vienna after Franz Josef's funeral, was the ■work of criminals. GERMAN EFFORT FOILED. iUnited Service.* (Received December Sth, 12.20 a.m.) LONDON. Doermbor 7. A wireless message from Paris states that the "Gaxotto" at Lausanne, by a detailed narrative, made a careful hut futile attempt to induce French Mussulman prisoners in the Miossen camp to join the Sultan of lurkey, with a view to fomenting a revolt in Northern Africa. Several Aral) chiefs were thereupon scattered throughout Germany, and harshly treated