THE POPE'S INTERVIEW
ARREST OP CARDINAL MI2RCIER DENIED SENSATION IN FRANCE . Paris, June 23. The newspaper "La Liberte" also statos:—"The Pope said, in the interview (published yesterday), 'You will bo astonished to hear that Cardinal Mercier was never arrested. He has' been able to move freely about his diocese." I have received a letter from General von Bissing, saying that he will repress with | the greatest energy any acts of violence Against churches and ministers of God." ' The Pope's speech has caused a great ■jsensation in France. The "Journal des ;})ebats" says: "The I'ope shows too j'mucli humility in reuomicing his right to judge. Germany's crimes.'' '■ The "Temps" says: "The Pope's easy 'ficceptance of Germany's explanation i3oes not prepare him for the role of mediator to which his children aspire." ' WAS THERE .ANY INTERVIEW? Havre, June 23. 'A Belgian Unman Catholic newspaper, pwins ta the Pope's reported references j.to Cardinal Mereier, says it believes that the interview never occurred. It •jmphasises Cardinal Mercier's own affirmations, and quotes ihe official report ,jof the massacre of forty-nine Belgian
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 25 June 1915, Page 7
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176THE POPE'S INTERVIEW Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 25 June 1915, Page 7
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