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Show MASSACRE OF MISSION AIRIES. A few months ago we reported the massacre of some ten Catholic missionaries in Xew Britain. Intelligence which has come to hand from Sydney indicates that punitive measures have been carried out with terrible severity by the German authorities, authori-ties, seventy of the natives who shared in the sruilt of the affair being shot down and a dozen or more j captured and doomed to death. Much pleasanter than this news are other tidings which come from-Sydney. from-Sydney. It appears from a statement published by the Sydney Freeman's Journal that when t he-details he-details of the massacre reached that, city tho Protestant Pro-testant community was as much moved by sorrow as the Catholics. Their sympathy found expression expres-sion in a letter addressed to his Eminence Cardinal Mo ran by the president of the Evangelical Council of Xew- South Wales. "We were deeply grieved." he wrote, ''at the news of the awful massacre of your missionaries in Xew Britain, and on behalf of my council I desire to tender our heartfelt sympathy sym-pathy with your Church in the loss of so many brave, self-denying workers and with the bereaved families who have lost their loved ones. They are part of the noble, army of martyrs, heroes and heroines whose death we all deplore. We pray that God's comfort may ever be with the bereaved, and that you, revoreneLsir. may feel that the hearts of your Protestant fellow citizens are beating in truest tru-est Christian sympathy with you in the grief that lias come upon your own heart." The Cardinal, in ' his reply, showed that he was deeply touched by this kindly act. It was an act dictated by a feeling of true Christian brotherhood. London Catholic Times. . 1 A. |