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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 9, 16 December 1892, Page 19

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TO THE EDITOR V.Z. TABLET. Siß,-.Can you or any of your readers explain why the French Bepublic protects French Catholic interests abroad and persecutes hem at home ? Or why does the P ope recommend French bishops *\ e T°lt RepabliC WbUßt the NEW z *ha«> Tablbx of S! date has the following in its leading article ?:_"? :_" Under tbe Bepablk' the character of tbe French nation is rapidly deteriorating A s^ct:" Bl'8 l'a a m: O e" U , Pt * "^ °« December 9, 1892. [1. Because French interests generally and French pregtiae are involved. 2. We do not presume to explain the motives of Is not our correspondent rather irreverent in suggesting that his Holiness should be guided by any newspaper, even by the Nbw