WAR TALK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 181, 7 April 1915, Page 8

WAR TALK.

HARRY LAUDER'S PIV-I3S. With a view to n.-i'rruli-ing; Mr Harry Lauder has i>rgit:rsCu i special band of pipers . whHi-. is tour the whole of Scothuu'l ?mi !}•»"- North of England In hm appftr.l Mr. I,antler says: "I wmit a <"hoiis;n;o nici. Our country calls for the !>o-?! thai !.-. in us. Anything v,e can do let us t'--i it voluntarily and without i\.-.-.:c. Dou't let the spirits of tho jr!or'o; :< past, laugh ua to disaster Your eo.. ■■ try calls yon.—Hl..''

' THE VATICAN FOOLED. \ MISLED BY GERMAN LIES. LEARNING THE TRUTH. | ;•:" .;: lU'Tci, member for Nai mur in the Belgian Chamber, who has iroturnod from a \hi : : to TUIy, wiites iRj, follows in the "Petit I-'arisien": [.. ''Astonishment has been expnos £'•?;] jthat the Popo his not. yet prot'-asted j-'piibli !y "".-jimst the viclttlrn of interna.-! nrl lav,- by Germany, and against jiha • .mchslEO-us c'rmL'g perpetrated in JBy.jdi'm hy'Gifniau troops, especially Iftft-.iinst p:ies!s. What struck me during my stsy in Rome was the ignorance of tho Catholi? world conecrnirjj I the even's of whluh my poor country , ho? been th: s'-jne. There v. ore also |ln l ui/i fi n " '.'■' many' in•."■■<•■!!••:;■' ■ [•anil mistaken \b.-.s en t'.-e subj :i <: j "'! wo* received by tJn Pcnll/f f.n j J Nroniljer 10, an.] believe that I v.a.J i tli fusj to make knewa to him the |ex&r". numbcri.' ci' pr. Yosts assassinated'i [by "no Gcr-r.yns in the diocese of Na- ! |-nu.- ah'no. This I .nor:. no3- is thus | :-p!;r.;!: Tho German .Government | j'.r>l b,oa prep.fiin.j; for war for a lens , ! i p. Knowing that the Vatican could : >\i'r.'i :• ocm:id r r-.blo infiuenco ov'ar "..;';<-!i- on:;;:Tv, sho had placed at tho Austro-llungarlrr. Ambassador iho Bavarian Minis!er, and tho Prus- j slam M'ini slor, to whom v. ore attached j nv.. ,v o.'oi? s ci.::er agents. I "On 'he violation ci' Belgian noutralXr •- Germans javo cut that they \v.:u ::i first * n agreement vrith Belgium, and that Belgium was merely simulating .roi=>tanca before withit; Kg her b.my to Antwerp, having ivr ' a (i ni led protest against Gerr.•■; n :3ct?. Events having openly given the Ho to these statements, the C: mans spread a. rumour that as ra;iy as July 31, bofore the declara- :.: ' ;•■••■'- " •- '; ---•—-. had en- ; . t (■. iitj 'urn u.ii.. a ,j ...; 1.':..... I o defence cl' Lieg'o.", j Then, said M. Mejlot, came the ridi-! culous story of the j alleged gi&n Treaty. As tp ' the atrocities, th'.y wore attributed to the crimes of l.i.a Belgian peoplo.

Tq. 2.11 these ei'for.fcs pn the part of the, Germans, the Allies made no reply, baring no ofnejal representatives at the Vatican. Cardinal Merc-far alone at the time of the Papal Conclave was able to bring some truths to light. A; length, however, fact's- were revealed. "The Pope no longer doubts that tho neutrality of Belgium was vio. lated without reason and without exeuS(3. His Holiness knows that the Belgian people have bean martyred, their priests assassinated, their churches profaned, and their religion flouted." Tho question i s now whether the Pope will not think the moment opportune for recalling tho immovable principles of Catholic morality, and in particular the ecclesiastical penalties v. it.h which the Church pun'sari those who maltreat bsr min'sterc and who commit sacrilege.