GERMANY REJOICES OVER AUSTRALIA'S DECISION

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 858, 9 November 1916, Page 9

GERMANY REJOICES OVER AUSTRALIA'S DECISION

POPE'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS WARRING NATIONS The Lord Mayor of London is making an appeal for aid for suffering Belgian children. He suggests a thanksgiving offering on Christmas Day. The Germans are carrying out extensive slave raids in Belgium, 15,000 men having already been summoned by ukase and compelled—against all the canons of international law—to labour on military works. The fact that the Pope intends to create three new French cardinals at the forthcoming Consistory is regarded as giving an indication of the political views of the Vatican. The result of the Australian conscription referendum has been received with jubilation in Germany. The P. & 0. liner Arabia was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean without warning. The passengers were saved.