Show POPE APPEALS TO POWERS FOR PEACE r IMPLORES RULERS TO STOP CARNAGE CARNAGE CARNAGE CAR CAR- NAGE WHICH FOR OR A YEAR HAS DISHONORED I This Is the Blood of Brothers That ThatIs Is Being Shed on Land and Sea Rulers Are Asked to Put an anS S End to Terrible Strife I I n. n Paris Pope Pope Benedict has made an appeal to the warring nations to end the war which has been In progress in Europe for the past twelve months In his appeal he says fays When we were called to succeed to the apostolic throne of Pope Pius X whose upright and exemplary life was wa brought to an end by the struggle which broke out In Europe we too felt felt after after gazing fearfully upon the bloody battlefield the battlefield the despair despair despair de de- de- de of a father who witnesses his home borne torn asunder and ravaged by a furious tempest We thought with inexpressible sorrow sorrow sorrow sor sor- sor- sor row of our young sons cut down by death we felt In our heart enlarged by Christian charitableness the great unspeakable sadness of mothers arid of wives made widows before their times and the the tears of children deprived de de- de too soon oon of parental guidance Today on the sad anniversary of the terrible conflict our heart gives forth the wish that the war will soon end en We raise again our voice to utter a fatherly cry for peace May this cry dominating the frightful noise of arms reach the warring peoples and their ther chiefs and induce kindly and more s serene se serene se- se rene intention intentions j jIn In the name of the Lord God inthe in inthe Inthe S the name of the Father and Lord in heaven In the name of the blessed blood of Jesus the Jesus the price of the r redemption re redemption re- re of humanity humanity we we implore I the belligerent nations before divine e providence forthwith to end the hor hor- I carnage which for a year h has s been dishonoring Europe This is the blood of brothers that Is is being sl shed ed on land and sea The most beautiful regions of Europe this Europe this garden garden gar gar- garden den of the world world are are sown with bodIes bodies bod hod- ies lea and ruins There where recently fields and factories thrived cannon now roar In a frightful manner in a frenzy of demolition sparing neither cities nor villages and spreading the ravages of death You who before God and men are charged with the grave responsibility of peace peace and war listen to our prayer listen to the fatherly voice of th the vi vicar yi car of the eternal and supreme Judge to whom you should give account of your public works as well as private actions |