CATHOLICS DEFY NAZIS

Northern Advocate, 13 August 1935, Page 5

CATHOLICS DEFY NAZIS

RH>LV TO ATTACK WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED “DEVOTED SPIRIT” DEAD. A REMARKABLE TRIUMPH. i“The Times” Cable.] (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 11. The Munich correspondent of the “Times” said a courageously outspoken reply to the attack on Catholicism made by Dr. Goebbels on August 4 was delivered by the Bishop of Treves, Prussia, at the 700th anniversary celebrations in Limburg cathedral. The bishop said the glorious cathedrals testified to ,the devoted spirit of medieval Germany, which was not sufficiently -alive today. The Catholics, he said, refused to be intimidated. Nazi uniforms and Swastika flags were conspicuously absent. The streets were decorated with clerical banners, and almost all the people had prayer books in their hands. It was a remarkable triumph for Catholicism. In Munich the streets were unusually empty, in spite of an appeal to the citizens to join in special antiCatholic and anti-Jewish celebrations. A few demonstrators carried banners caricaturing priests, who were_depicted as shaking hands with Moscow leaders. ' , „ „ Storm Troops distributed leaflets at the houses, ordering the residents to gather in the streets and exhibit flags, but only a fevir obeyed the orders.