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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 22, 26 May 1915, Page 5

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POLICY OF THE VATICAN. PAPAL DELEGATES STATEMENT. Unithd Pubis .titßuG'vriow. (Received 8.25 a.m.) Sydney, May 2(5. Monsignor Ceretti, the Papal Delegate, gives no credence to the cabled report that the Pope had subscribed £4.000 to the Italian war fund and the allotment of £40,000 to the Italian victims of the war. He said the policy of the Vatican was always one of strict neutrality. He also declared it was unlikely that the Paris message that the Pope was about to issue a manifesto approving of Italy's intervention, and sympathising with the Allies, was true. The church had subjects in all the belligerent countries, and due can- must be observed not to hurt the feelings of any section of Catholics. ALLECED DEFENCE SCANDALS. (Received 8.25 a.m.) Melbourne, .May 26. The Attorney-General is departing, and will take action in connection with serious idlegations regarding the Defence contracts. The authorities are reticent. ADMIRER OF THE KAISER. Sydney. May 25. At Albury a German named Scb nioork was sentenced to six months without the option lor spreading reports likely to cause alarm amongst civilians. In evidence he declared the Kaiser had more brains than all the British, who were cowards and not game to fight on their own. but had to get the help of all the other nations. The war was unfinished, and when it was over Germany would bo the winner. The police gave evidence that accused was previously cautioned for inflammatory utterances. NATURALISED CERMAN IN TROUBLE. (Received 10.35 a.m.) Melbourne, May 2G. As the result of making injudicious comments on cable news posted out--1 side a newspaper office, the authorities 'interned a German naturalised at the beginning of the war. This is the first case of its kind.