VATICAN STATE

Northern Advocate, 5 March 1929, Page 6

VATICAN STATE

RESIDENCE E BGTJLA TION S. TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT FORMED. (Australian Press Association.) (Received Nojon.) ROME, March 3. Confirming the Pope's desire that the only residents of the Vatican State should he people indispensable to Vatican administration, Cardinal Gasparri on Saturday issued- an order formally rescinding all residential concessions and evicting all residents except those granted new concessions. Citizenship can only ho granted those permanently residing therein. Only ascendants, descendants and collateral relatives of such persons niay live ■with them, provided they 'have no families of their own. All others must seek quarters outside immediately. The Pope has- nominated a provdsidnal Government, pending ratification of the treaty, after which he TVill nominate the Governor, probably a prelate. He will also appoint a Commissioner of Works to deal with streets and buildings. Signor Marconi conferred with the Pope concerning the erection of a wireless station.

SWEEPING UKASE.

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 4,

• A message from Vatican City says that the order by Cardinal Gasparri considerably excited the inmates, ntunbecning 447. It notified them that they were liable to be ordered to leave on the spur of the moment, immediately the Italo-Vatiean treaties are ratified. This applies to everybody, from ■Monsignor Borgongini Duee, the highest official at. the Vatican after Cardinal Gasparri, down to the lowest servant. The order was actually made with the idea of getting rid of a 'number of people who fof generations 1 have occupied buildings inside the' Vatican simply because their forefathers held positions at the Holy See.