REPLY TO NAZIS

Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 7

REPLY TO NAZIS

GERMAN BISHOP ♦ CATHOLICS WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED MUNICH DEMONSTRATION (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.5 p.m.) London, August 12. The Munich correspondent of The Times says that a courageously outspoken reply to Dr. Goebbels attack on Catholicism on August 4 was delivered by Bishop Treves at the seven hundredth anniversary celebrations in Limburg Cathedral. He declared that glorious cathedrals testified to the devoted spirit of mediaeval Germany, which was insufficiently alive to-day. Catholics refused to be intimidated. Nazi uniforms and swastika flags were conspicuously absent, the streets being decorated with clerical banners. Almost the entire population had prayer books in their hands—a remarkable triumph for Catholicism. The Munich streets were unusually empty despite an appeal to citizens to join in special anti-Catholic and antiJewish celebrations. The demonstrators carried banners caricaturing priests shaking hands with Moscow leaders. Storm troopers distributed leaflets at houses ordering the residents to gather in the streets and exhibit flags, but few obeyed.