PAPAL WARNING TO NAZIS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20102, 8 May 1935, Page 9

PAPAL WARNING TO NAZIS

HARSH TREATMENT ALLEGED POPE’S WARM SYMPATHY EXPRESSED United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 7, 5.5 p.m.) VATICAN CITY, May 6. The Pope, addressing a party of German pilgrims, condemned the attempts by Germany to abolish Christianity and return to barbaric paganism. “Everything was being done there,” the Pope said, “to confuse the Christian Catholic life.” Referring to the report of the previous Catholic visitors to the Vatican, being attacked and divested of Nazi regalia, when they again crossed the German frontier, the Pope said: “Before the entire Catholic civilised world, we remember the suffering of those good faithful sons of the church of the Fatherland.” communities, irrespective of caste or creed, offered prayers for his Majesty. Bonfires were lighted on many hills, and there were Innumerable fireworks displays. Thousands of poor were fed throughout the country. The people in Ceylon were unprecedentedly ' enthusiastic, and arranged three days of festivities.

SERVICES AT CANBERRA OFFICIAL TRIBUTES TO KING’S REIGN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright CANBERRA, May 6. A brief official ceremony was held today at Canberra on the steps of Parliament House, in which the GovernorGeneral (Sir Isaac Isaacs), the actingPrime Minister (Dr. Earle Page), Federal Ministers and their wives and Government officials participated. The Governor-General delivered a speech, paying tribute to their Majesties, and he expressed the profound loyalty of the Australian people. THANKSGIVING IN PERTH CELEBRATION BY SCHOOL CHILDREN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright PERTH, May 6. Official observance of the King's Jubilee in Western Australia will take place on June 3, but 1500 pupils of secondary schools celebrated the occasion to-day at King’s Park, where a thanksgiving service was held. All the chief buildings are beflagged.

REJOICING IN HONG KONG SCENES OF UNPRECEDENTED ENTHUSIASM United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright HONG KONG, May 6. Scenes of unprecedented enthusiasm and pageantry are being witnessed in Hong Kong. Special trains and steamers during the week-end brought tens of thousands from Canton and all outposts and accommodation is taxed to the utmost. The weather is glorious and processions on a lavish scale are providing a riot of colour, with silver and gold dragons 300 ft long and hundreds of legendary emblems. All arrangements were completed for magnificent illuminations to-night, in which the Army and Navy searchlights and illuminated ’planes will play a prominent part. The Chinese arranged a spectacular fireworks display, which they believe heralds an era of prosperity under His Majesty’s rule. ONE VOICE MISSING FREE STATE’S«EXPRESSION OP FREEDOM United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright DUBLIN, May 6. “The one voice missing from the massed choir of goodwill is the Free State’s,” said the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin, in a sermon at St Patrick’s Cathedral. “Nevertheless,” continued the Archbishop, “the hearts of tens of thousands of citizens feel what the Free State has not expressed. The King expressed his influence to secure a peaceful settlement of the Anglo-Irish differences, in 1914 and in 1921, the latter resulting in the Anglo-Irish Treaty.” He added: “Some of the most notable pieces of constitutional development of the Statute of Westminster were included owing to the skill and perseverance of members of the Free State. The Free State’s self-governing freedom may be measured by the unchallenged liberty she asserted to-day, when she stands apart in silence from an occasion which is hailed with rejoicing by her sister Dominions.” FREE STATE’S “SECRET GIFT” SIXTY THOUSAND SUBSCRIBE United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 7, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, May 7. “The Daily Mail” says: Over 60,000 persons have subscribed to the Free State people’s “secret” gift to their Majesties. Canon Luce, in a sermon at Trinity College, said: “To forsake the King is a step towards forsaking God in a

world seething with neo-pagan thought. The King and the Commonwealth stand like a rock for Christian principles. Loyalty to God and to Ireland and to the King were cords easily broken.” ULSTER JOINS IN REJOICING JOINED BY SECTIONS OF FREE STATE PEOPLE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 7, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 6. All classes of the community in Ulster, except the extreme Republicans, joined heartily in the rejoicings. Free State people, deprived of the opportunity of attending the celebrations on their native soil, participated in a sort of jubilee at Strabane. whither hundreds crossed the border and helped to ignite a bonfire on Mount Knockavon.