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New Zealand Tablet, 18 February 1915, Page 41

Most Rev. Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, Minn., was fifty-two years a priest on December 21.

A century ago on Christmas Eve there was signed in the old Carthusian monastery in the city of Ghent the Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and the United States which brought to a close the last war between the two great nations. The occasion has been signalised on the part of the Peace Centenary Committees at both sides of the Atlantic by the issue of manifestoes.

Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is the third city of the Russian Empire. .Beautifully situated on the left bank of the Vistula, it is 700 miles from Petrograd and 400 from Berlin. It is a recognised centre of science, art, industry, and commerce, and has a population of well over a half million. .

The Order of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, or as they are familiarly called, Christian Brothers,, was founded by St. John Baptist de la Salle, at Reims;. France, in 1680. The Archbishop of Baltimore introduced them in Baltimore in 1840, and from this place they branched out over tile United States and Canada and have 35,000 pupils and upwards of 100 colleges, academies; and parochial schools.