HIS HOLINESS THE POPE.
“ CROSSING THE BAR.”
WILL GO OUT LIKE A LAMP, WHOSE OIL HAS RUN DRV.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, July if. The Pope took soup twice during the night, and towards dawn was placed in an arm-chair, where he ,was reclining at hali-past eight. The doctors then visited him, and their latest bulletin states that he spent a less restless night, though he had little sleep. His pulse is weak, but not intermittent. The temperature is below normal. ■- It is officially stated that the 'Pope was engaged writing for some time at his desk during the morning. Dr. Mazzoni declares that the hour of fatal termination depends upon the rapidity wherewith the lung hardens. The Pope will go out like alamp whose oil has run dry.
NEARING THE END.
HIS HOLINESS WILL DIE HAPPY
By Telegraph—Prow Association —Copyright
Received 10.32 p.m., July 25. Rome, July 7.
The Pope’s condition showed an improvement to-day, the result of stimulants. He took a little food. Ho sat in an armchair, in order to ussist breathing. Ho attended business in defiance of the physician’s injunction, declaring that ho wished to die in harness. Ho would die happy, sinco he had obeyed his conscience *nd striven for the Church’s welfare, if His Holiness dictated a poetic invocation the Redeemer and Virgin and a farewell to all Christians. Towards evening accentuated symptoms were goneral, depression appeared, the respirations were more frequont and superficial, and the puiso weak, at times imperceptible. Tho intellect was unimpaired. Dr. Mazzoni. late in the evening, stated that unless tho unexpected happened, tho patient would live a day or two. . \ Recoivod 10.40 p.tn., July 7. King Edward and most of the rulers telegraphed to tho Valieau for nows. Messages of enquiry and sympathy have been received from all parts of the world. Extreme unctiou was administered at ten to-night. The Pope blessed all pre, sent. Tbe weakness increased- after midnight.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 936, 8 July 1903, Page 3
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