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Show POPE PENS NOTE TO BAVARIAN PRELATES Deplores Loss of So Many Lives and Will Continue, to Uphold Church Discipline. AMSTERDAM. Feb. 7. Germania of Berlin states Pope Benedict haa sent a letter to the Bavarian Episcopate in which, after referring to his peace note, says: 'To the deep anxiety and unrest with which my heart is filled by the long duration of this most lamentable war is also added the experience that mv exhortion to re-establish peace, which certainly was the result of a sincere endeavor in the interest and welfare of all, has taken a course which I least expected: and that this exhortation exhorta-tion was even utilized by wicked persons per-sons to incite popular hatred against me while I intemlcd to give proof of my love. ' ' His holiness, according to the newspaper, news-paper, adds that he will bear ignominy for Christ's sake, but deplores the loss of so many souls, anil concludes by saying say-ing that he will continue to promote higher morality and will uphold church discipline. |