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Show oo CLERGY TO REFUTE BELGIAN STATEMENT Paris, Feb 15, 5 a. m A special dispatch from Rome says that the cardinals car-dinals and bishops of Germany and Austria are preparing a collective statement in answer to the letter of the Belgian bishops. A letter dated November 4, 1915. and signed by Cardinal Mercier, archbishop arch-bishop of Mallnos, anl by tho other members of the Belgian Catholic Episcopate, Epis-copate, tho bishops of Ghent, Bruges, Nnmur, Liege and Tournai, was addressed ad-dressed to the cardinals and bishop of Germany, Bavaria and Austria-Hungary and contained an appeal in the name 'of their common religion for truth and justice for the clergy and faithful of Belgium. An appendix gave, as was stated, official documents docu-ments and minutes to prove tho assertions asser-tions of intolerable wrongs made in the letter. |