ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9075, 21 June 1915, Page 2

ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD

RETURN TO WELLINGTON SOME OP HIS IMPRESSIONS 'ABROAD. His Grace Archbishop Redwood returned to Wellington yesterday, after an absence of thirteen months, by tho s.s. Maitai, from San Francisco. He left Wellington on -May 15th, 1914, for Sydney, whence he travelled via the Suez Canal route to Marseilles. Ho then visited various colleges in the south of France, and attended the great Eucharistic Conference at London on July 21st, 1914, as tho representative of New Zealand ; ho was one, of the oldest Archbishops present. During tho progress of tho conference His Grace delivered several speeches about the Dominion. He was visiting a friend when the war broke out, and saw the mobilisation of a portion of the French army at Bayonne. The Archbishop was greatly impressed with the deportment of the French soldiers- Sprious and quiet, they evinced a thorough determination to win. In . the Archbishop’s opinion the war has been the cause of a great religious revival in France. After the outbreak of war. His Grace visited the principal cities of Spain, and then went on to Italy, where he spent eighty-eight days at Rome, during only three of which the sun shone. He then went back to Spain, after visiting some Italian cities. His next journey was to America, and he arrived at New York on Holy Thursday. During his stay the capital experienced one of tho biggest blizzards that had ever swept down upon it. , After a visit to the leading American towns, the Archbishop spent some time'at San Francisco, where he greatly admired the Panama Exposition. Dean Regnault accompanied His Grace as far. as Lourdes, and went on to Paris, from which town he returned to Wellington last January. To a “Times” reporter yesterday the Archbishop said that the architecture, colouring, and lighting of the Exposition was superior to anything of tho kind he had ever seen before. All the buildings were coloured, and the lighting was all indirect. There was thus no glare. The Canadian Court was a masterpiece; the building and arrangements were interesting and instructive, and gave an excellent idea of the wealth and the resources of the Northern Dominion. The Australian Court was a capital display, as was New Zealand’s. A feature of the Exposition is a miniature model of the Panama Canal, with locks and ships moving and in working order. The model was several bundled yards long.

Asked as to the attitude of the American people with regard to the war, the Archbishop said that public opinion was now strongly in favour of the Allies, with Ijhe exception of a minority of Gormans resident in the States. This was not so at the beginning of the war, but the sinking, of the .Lusitania had caused a great sensation, and now everything concerning German atrocities was believed. The war was the general topic of. conversation, and the nation Was determined to back up the Allies. The majority, of the newspapers were also opposed to Germany; in fact, the Germans in America were very quiet, for their own sakes. The American fleet was ready to, be mobilised, and was recently reviewed by the President at New York. America was doing a lot' to help the Allies with regard to the supply of munitions of war, and numerous, munition factories had been erected in the country, not in tho cities, near the sea coast. Universal admiration was expressed, concluded the. Archbishop, not only in America, but in other foreign countries, at the bravery shown by the New Zealanders and the Australians at .the Dardanelles. Another feature of the war that was >admired was the unity of the British, Empire in the crisis, the way in which New Zealand, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and India had stood together in the common cause.