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New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1915, Page 36

Not without a certain amount of anxiety (writes a Rom© correspondent) do many Catholics consider the possible consequences to Catholics and Catholic institutions in the Turkish Empire of the outbreak of war _ between Italy and Turkey. A large number of Italian- religious are still, in the Ottoman Empire, especially in the Holy Land, where they have for centuries clung to shrines connected with the life of our Lord. But the presence of the Apostolic Delegate ,at Constantinople will, we may well believe, go far to protect both * edifices and religious ; and it is not too much to expect that the Ambassador of the United States, who has undertaken the protection of the Italians in Turkey, will co-operate with the representative of the Holy See for the preservation of churches, schools, convents, and monasteries which have been under the care of Italian and- French , priests and Sisters.