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Show j Germans Destroy ! Over 30 Churches h km District I 1 NEW YORK, Oct. 18. Destruction j ' by the Germans of more than 300 I' churches in his own diocese "for -which ( there wa3 no military necessity" was i described here today by the Right Rev. Eujeno Louis Julien, bishop of Arras, I; who, with the Right Rev. P. W. Keat- Jng, bishop of Northampton. England, i Consignor Alfred Baudrlllart, rector ! of the Catholic university of Paris, a I H member of the French academy, and jj j other French dignitaries, is on his way to Baltimore to felicitate Cardinal ' Gibbons on the fiftieth anniversary of ' f hlo consecration to the Episcopate. ,( "I am glad to know that France and America are of. one opinion in their ( determination to bring Gernftny to her knees. The force of public opinion ; is assurance to the world that its lead-' lead-' i era cannot be tricked into negotiating a premature peace. 'Unconditional sur-j sur-j render' of Germany is inevitable," the 2 j prelate said. I In telling of the devastation wrought ' by the enemy the bishop said that be-,', be-,', fore the capture of Bapaume by the ; British on August 20, the Germans j planted clock bombs throughout the city timed to explode when the allied troops arrived. A number of the French chamber of deputies, a friend of his, he said, was killed by one of these bombs in the Bapaume city hall, "thus confirming con-firming the stories of German violation viola-tion of the laws of war." "The French people are delighted with the American soldiers," said Bishop Bis-hop Julien. "They find them brave, enthusiastic, en-thusiastic, generous, singularly religious relig-ious and a wonderful example of sincerity sin-cerity and practical piety.". oo |