Second Edition. THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 5, 7 January 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. THE WAR.

In the West -|; . i'■ • . '■ "AN UNPARDONABLE BLUNDER." [Unjtid Pbhm Association.] Amsterdam, January 6. The Roman Catholic community has been thftjwli'into a state of consternation owing to Cardinal Mercier’s arrest. the Reichstag is in session the Centre Party will insist on an explanation of the step, which is describee!, as an unpardonable blunder. It is serni-officially stated in Berlin that everybody agreed that Cardinal Mercier was justified in consoling civilians in the severe times, and urging them tp be quiet, but he transgressed his authority and misconstrued his rights and obligations to the Church* when in a pastoral he interfered in a, .political quarrel between nations);

GERMAN TREATMENT OF BELClAN''MllirstEß. DEATH OF HIS WIFE. ii 1.40 p.m.) "?) -' ~ Paris, January 6. M. de BujSsiers,,Belgian Minister at Petrograd, asked permission to traverse Germany in order to visit his wife, who .\fas serious|y ill at Brussels, but. was refused. ' On arriving. at THe Hague; via Scandinavia, he learnt f, -'t his wrfe was dead, leaving six young children. • ~•:.-.