BELGIUM'S FUTURE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2709, 2 March 1916, Page 6

BELGIUM'S FUTURE

RESTORATION A CONDITION OF, J'EAOE. . The ''Vingtienie Sieole," tho organ of tlio Belgian -'Government published at Havre, gives prominence to a remarkable discourse of a Jesuit military chaplain, Father'Heiiu's's'e, which has naturally made <1 great impression among the Belgians. 'Addressing over a thousand soldiers at a military mass in a church which has been greatly damaged by German - shells, the preacher said: "The opinion of the Holy Father, with whom I have spoken quito recently, concerning acceptable terms of peace, is quite formal. He declared to me: 'Every time the Germans around 1110 speak of peace they contemplate the reconstruction of Belgium.' .And tlio Pope told me, aiid told me again to repeat in the Belgian trenches from Nieuport to Ypres, to tho soldiers, to the officers, to the civilians, to the chaplains, to the members of the Government, and to tho King himself, that lie maintains that Belgium has a right to a complete reparation. 011 tho part of Germany; that he will never consent to offer his good offices in helping towards the establishment of peace except on the condition that Belgium shall be at least reconstructed in her territories in both Europe and Africa as they were before the war. in the fullness of her liberty, with all her former international rights jn _ their full integrity and before all nations, without prejudice to an adequate indomnity to he fixed after a minute inventory of the restoration of all her monuments and the restitution of her private properties. '1 could not speak otherwise been use otherwise I. should _be speaking against tho laws of morality.' "