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New Zealand Tablet, 4 September 1919, Page 22

A CHAPLAIN’S EXPERIENCE. Au American Catholic army chaplain, Father G. Lacombe, writes thus of his experiences in Germany: . . “Our men are far more at home in Germany than they were in Franco. „ The population declare openly that they'look upon us as their deliverers. How explain this? There are those who claim that the German propaganda is still subsidised and still strongly organised, and that their avowed preference of the Americans to the English and French is another piece of clumsy propaganda. I personally think the answer is more fundamental. I think the answer is to be found in history. “The Kulturkampf, of 1870, burned deeply into the lives of these people, to whom religion is dearer than life itself. They are organised along religious lines, and the simplicity and thoroughness of their re- • ligious life' is an example to all of us. Every day the village assists at High Mass. They stay for my Mass and sing their sweet hymns. They are at Benediction .at nightfall. They have the rosary at bedtime.”