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POPE PIUS X DIES GRIEVING OVER WAR Loved the Simple Life Ammitg His Friends to be the head of the Catholic church and the successor of St. Peter. He BRITISH INFANTRY CROSSING A PONTOON BRIDGE POPE PIUS X DIES GRIEVING OVER WAR loved the simple life ammitg his friends. There was a great difference of opinion as to the qualifications of Pope Pius X. for his office His election. a I compromise, was particularly pleasing European Conflict Hastens Collapse of the Aged Pon- to Austria, Germany and France, and In these countries, with the exception tiff at Vatican in Rome—Sisters and Officials of of France in recent years, he was highly commended for wisdom and Church at Bedside at End—Had Reigned strength. S.S•Saafs Brought Church end State Together. Eleven Years. As to Italy, he increased the cordial understanding between church and 0. state, which was not thought wise by Rome, Aug. 20.—Pope Pius X is the Cathedral of Treviso. This pro- Italian churchmen. However, his ac- dead. motion was supplemented by bestowal tion resulted in an uplifting of the Already suffering from bronchitis of the deanery on Father Sarto and church in Italy. and a weak heart, the worry occas- his appointment as Episcopal chancel- Before Pope Pius had been on the ioned by the war involving all Europe lor. To him also was confided the del- throne three years he evidenced that brought on bronchial pneumonia, and icate and important charge of spiritual young men who dreamed of the career he is a war victim as truly as if he director of the Seminary of Treviso, of a courtier in Rome were going to had been struck down on the field of In which college he was likewise be disappointed. The pope wanted battle. He was ill four days. given a professor's chair and an ex- bishops for the different sees, and the Death came shortly after 2 o'clock in aminership. way for young diplomats to promotion, Nor did his activities end here, for it was soon apparent, was through the the morning after a night spent in States was not likely to intervene fruitless effort by his physicians, who he was chosen as a judge in the tiresome but wholesome office of gov- day we reached Delme on one side and In any way . bad kept him alive for many hours Capitular Ecclesiastical court. and fin- erning bishop. GERMANS ON BOTH Morhange on the other." ally was appointed vicar-general of Austria Promises Much. Japan's Action Limited. with oxygen and hypodermic heart Opposed to Woman's Suffrage. the docese. BANKS OF MEUSE; Dispatches to Rome from Vienna The British official Press bureau gave , stimulants. Compared with the policies of his out the following statement: His holiness had lain unconscious After such an apprenticeship it was state that Austria has promised Rou- predecessors of recent times, the lean- "Great Britain and Japan, most of the afternoon, but rallied in not surprising that when the im- mania that in return for her assist- having. ing of Pope Pius X. have been held OFFICIAL REPORT been in communication with each the evening, became conscious for a portant see of Mantuc became vacant, ance the dual monarchy will cede to oth- to be ultra-orthodox in purely ecclesi- er, are of the opinion that time, and gave the physicians hope in 1884, Leo XIII chose Giuseppe Sar- Roumania all the Servian border terri- it Ia neces- astical principles and ultra-conserva- sary that each shall take action that he might recover But his to to fill the place- It was no easy tory. It is also said that Austria has to pro- tive In temporal relations. tect its general interests in strength was gone, be soon relapsed task to which he had been called, for Belgians Admit Inability Longer offered Bulgaria the restitution of the far An instance of his well-known un- east as contemplated by the into coma and gradually grew weaker his predecessor had allowed discipline Macedonia in return for her aid. Anglo- compromising attitude against ad- to Hold Back the Armies Japanese alliance, keeping especially until the end. He died while sleeping to slack. His persuasive powers and Makes Final Plea to Italy. administrative gifts were tested to vanced tendencies was afforded in his in view the independence and integ- peacefully. of the Kaiser. In a final effort to swing Italy into , the utmost, but he was fully equal to opposition to woman suffrage as voiced line to oppose the allies, Germany has rity of China as provided for in the Pope Suffers a Relapse. the ungrateful task. by the pope upon the occasion of his sent a military and diplomatic mission agreement. In the afternoon he suffered a re- Two years later Pope Leo recognized eeception of a delegation of Italian BIG BATTLES LOCKED FOR to Rome. It is traveling by automo- "It is understood that the action of lapse, and he received the last sacra- Bishop Sarto's merits by raising him Catholic ladies. Japan will not extend to the Pacific• ment. His sisters lighted the candles IN IMMEDIATE FUTURE bile. to the Sacred College, with the title "Woman can never be man's equal," Germany and Kiaochow. ocean beyond the China sea, except as- before the miraculous images of St. of San Bernardo alle Temme, at a he told his fair visitors, "and cannot, The Japanese ambassador is leaving it may be necessary to protect the• Joseph and remained prostrate, pray- consisiory held June 15, 1893. therefore, enjoy equal rights. Few Japanese lines in the Pacific, French Troops Reported to Be Within Berlin, according to advices received nor in ing for his recovery. At the same time he was chosen women would ever desire to legislate, Asiatic waters, to the westward of the Fifteen Miles of Metz—Copenhagen at Copenhagen. The ringing of the church bells noti- out of all the Venetian prelates to fill and those who did would be classed China sea, nor on foreign territory ex- fied the people of the exposition of Hears That Japanese Ambassador An official dispatch to Rotterdam the patriarchate of Venice. as eccentrics. Scripture, and espe- from Berlin states that Germany will cept territory in German occupation the boll, sacrament and called them Is Leaving Berlin—Germany Hesi- Won Support of the Radicals. daily the three Epistles of St. Paul, not consent to evacuate Kiaochow or on the continent of eastern Asia," to Myer. In his nine years' residence in the emphasize woman's dependence on tates to Comply With Demands The president was asked whether 'Cardinal Merry del Val, who was comply with the other demands of r "seagirt" city the pope of the gondo- man." Made by the Japanese Government. the assurance of Japan that she would called in, left after a few minutes and Japan. The officials in Berlin take the liers was beloved and a familiar figure One great reform Pope Pius accom- eventually restore Kiaochow to China issued a summons for the cardinals position that taking Kikochow affects A dispatch from Brussels received in case that territory was obtained hirse left the city for their va- the issue of the war no more than tak- at Paris Friday morning says it is ing Togoland, and that the ultimatum from Germany was regarded as satis- cations. practically impossible to get news must be rejected. factory in Washington. Mr. Wilson Before the relapse the pope ad- away from Brussels. However, it is The Japanese government, anticipat- replied that he saw no reason to ques- dressed the whole world on the sub- certain the tremendous battle is in tion Japan's good faith in this con- ject of the war. When he was told ing the kaiser's refusal to surrender progress. Kiaochow as demanded in the mikado's nection. that the roar of cannon in the Adri- Admit Advance of Germans. Secretary Tumulty, at the direction atic could be heard in Venice he ex- ultimatum, has prepared to fire the A Haves dispatch from Brussels says first gun in bombardment of the forti- fo the president, issued the following claimed: that the Belgian government makes statement: "The president feels it "The bones of the doges must thrill fications immediately at the expiration admission officially that the Germans of the time limit. incumbent on himself, as the head of in their sepulchers at the familiar have, at the cost of much blood and a neutral nation, to express no opin- sound of battle, recalling the heroic Wiison's Plea for Neutrality. treasure, gained on both banks of the ions whatsoever on the attitude of days of old!" President Wilson, in a public ap- Meuse river, ground which brings them peal addressed to the American peo- Japan or any other country." Has Reigned Eleven Years. into contact with the army of the al- ple, asked that citizens of the United Secretary. Bryan firmly declined to The pontiff, for whom the world is lies. States refrain from "taking sides" in discuss Japan's move, but it is known. mourning, passed away in his seventy- "The Germans have taken a number the general European war, pointing that the Japanese government, under ninth year, in the eleventh year of his of our positions," the government ad- out that all should be neutral in the Root-Takahira agreement of 1908, reign. Although his rule was brief, mits, "but have wasted 16 days, which thought as well as in word. This, he sounded the United States before de- The bis lovable personality made him is greatly to the honor of our army. says, is the most certain way of pre- claring its position to Germany.
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