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Show POPE APPEALS TO POKJB PEACE IMPLORES RULERS TO STOP CARNAGE CAR-NAGE WHICH FOR A YEAR HAS DISHONORED EOUROPE. "This is the Blood of Brothers That is Being Shed on Land and Sea." Rulers Are Asked to Put an End to Terrible Strife. Paris. Pope Benedict has made an appeal to the warring nations to end the war which has been in progress In Kurope for the past twelve months. In his appeal he says: When we were called to succeed to the apostolic throne of Pope Plus X. whose upright and exemplary life was brought to an end by the fraticldal struggle which broke out in Europe, we, too, felt after gazing fearfully upon the bloody battlefield the despair de-spair of a father who witnesses his home torn asuuder and ravaged by a furious tempest. We thought, with inexpressible sor row. of our young sons cut down by deaili; we felt In our heart, enlarged by Christian charitableness, the great unspeakable sadness of mothers and of wives made widows before their times, and Ihe tears of children deprived de-prived loo soon of parental guidance. Today, on the sad anniversary of the terrible conltii t. our heart gives forth the wish that the war will soon end. We raise again our voice to utter a fatherly cry for peace. May this cry. dominating the frightful noise of arms, reach Ihe warring peoples and their chiefs and Induce kindly and more se rene Intentions. In the name of th God; in the name of ihe Father and I,ord In heaven; in the name of the blessed blood of Jesus Ihe price of the redemption re-demption of humanity we implore the belligerent nations before divine providence forlhwllh to end the horrible hor-rible carnage, which for a year has been dishonoring Kurope. This Is the blood of brothers that H being shed on land and sea. The most beautiful regions of Kurope this garden gar-den of Ihe world are sown with bodies bod-ies 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 and war, listen to our prayer, llslen to Ihe fatherly voice of the vicar vi-car of the eternal and supreme Judge, to whom you should give account of your public works as well as private actloiiH. |
