HEROIC PRIEST

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 14, 11 October 1919, Page 7

HEROIC PRIEST

HOW A JESUIT FATHER HELPED IN THE

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rcc, October 10, 9.50 p.m.) •• " - London, Octotye'r' 9. '■ 'Sensational revelations of •the imrt play/.'d'by'a Jesuit, .Meuss. during l the first two years-of tho war. Jle was a well-known social'worker in Belgium before MJu) war, and originated a daring scheme -with tho object of maintaining tho moral of tho Belgians under the German yoke.' As a director of organisation he Assisted in forwarding twelve hundred letters from Belgian soldiers to their wives in invaded districts. He.also assisted.Nurse Cavoll in helping four hundred British soldiers over tho frontier, - in- addition to many other nationalities.' .'Prisoners woroHakou t.o Urns-, sels to be disguised.. Here they met a little girl, who said liuthing, but tho prisoners followed ' until. tho child was stopped outside the . house iu which Nurse On veil was Waiting (o meet (ho prisoners, Hero they were bandaged, up and ■ li-iiiisl'ornied into" huspital p-i'tienis until Father 'Meuss- was able: to arrange for •t'hoiv-traiisfw>oycr. the frontier. On ono occasion Father Meuss dressed up as a cattle driver, and went to Ontend, where lie found flip lurking jjlncc of German submarines. 'Another.liikcT'dressed, as a'pastrycook' he attended" a pinner of Zeppelin officers, and learned---of an. im. pending raid of Britain, lie notified tho British Admiralty by currier- pigeons, sent, v.iii Holland. Father .Meuss chanced to bo ill Holland wlieu Nurse Cavcll was arestred, and thus escaped the fata of t:li0 majority of- the leaders uf (lie. organise. . t.lon, ... ... .'Belgium has conferred a decoration on Father -Meuss.—Aus,-N.<s. Cable Assn. .