SERVED AS SOLDIER

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1933, Page 11

SERVED AS SOLDIER

Pope Pius's fifteen days as a soiaier are commemorated, by a plaque dedicated in the reconstructed Catholic University of Milan. The university was once the ancient monastery of St. Ambrose, and fifty years ago was converted temporarily into a military hospital. Here Pius served fifteen days of compulsory military service. He had just been ordained, but the anti-clerical Government of that day insisted on his performing military -duty. The plaque reads:—"ln these halls once divided into cells devoted to prayer and study by learned moblcs, and then transformed into hospital rooms for the soldiers of Italy resurrected and united but not yet reconsecrated to a high religious destiny, the young priest Aehille Eatti, who on ascending the pontifical throne accomplished the restoration of Italy by giving her back to God by the Lateran treaty, passed the few days of his military life." KEEPS WATER HOT 3 DAYS. An important feature of the Mercer Vacuum Electric Cylinder is the special heat-retaining packing around the cylinder which keeps water piping hot for three days after the current is switched off. Full particulars from the "Wellington Electricity Department. —Advt. " • . *■■... ■