BELGIUM’S GALLANT CARDINAL.
ANOTHER Tir/P AT GERMANY. DARING PROTEST AGAINST CHURCH VIOLATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received April 28, 5.5 p.m.) NEW' YORK, April The Belgian Legation has received a < npy of Cardinal Mereier’.s daring Pastoral letter, protesting against the latest German seizure of Belgian Catholic Church property in reference to the edict ordering an inventory of all church hells and organsThe letter says: “We do not need to delude, ourselves. The inventory of to-day is the signal for the requisition to-morrow. We would be betraying the Church and the Fatherland wore we so cowardly as to permit without public protest the taking away of metal to be converted by the enemy into engines of destruction destined to carry death into the ranks of the heroes who are sacrificing themselves for us.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4855, 29 April 1918, Page 5
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