VATICAN AND THE-STATTE.
BURGLARS HANDED OVER. | (BY TELEOIum—rUES3 18SOCI ATIUS'-COfrnrOHT.) . Romo, May, 26. The Pope has handed to tho Italian police threo burglars, who were caught in . tho Vatican Oaf dens, thereby recognising tho civil power. AN IMPROBABLE INFERENCE. The inference which it is evidently intended should bo drawn from this message is that n concession'has been made by the Popo in re- < spect pf his traditional elaiius to the temporal 1 sovereignty of-the Vatican territory. The pro- ' sent Pope has hitherto adhered ito theso claims f quite as firmly as his predecessors, and the i Very Rev. .Father O'Shea, S.M., V.G, f to whom ' tho message was reforre(j, ■ considers it entirely improbable that .any. concessioh has now been 1 made./Lhe handing .over .of tho burglars to \ the Italian police would be merely equivalent 4 to the handing .overbv one Power to anether /of the letter's criminals. On a previous occa- 1 sion, when a fire broke out in the • Vatican, t and the-fire brigade of the' oity were sent for, a similar interpretation was put upon the action,, but there, was no Warrant'for the n6Bunii> c tion. . " ' ' \
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 519, 28 May 1909, Page 7
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