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, ""Seizure Would Come as Great Shock to a People Germany Has Bound Herself to
German Chancellor, Count von Herding
Explanatory Comment
'TN PROTESTING to the German authorities against the iniquities of their rule in Belgium, Cardinal
A Mercier seldom went over the heads of the officials of the occupying, machinery.
It is noteworthy, however, that on two major occasions he addressed higher imperial representatives
With success. His manifesto sent directly to the Emperor concerning the crime of the Belgian deportations
attained something of the desired effect. The comprehensive plan of systematic slavery was abandoned.
Such deporting as was conducted was on a much smaller scale than had originally been intended.
The second time in which the primate scored a substantial victory by taking his appeal to a higher
court was in February, 1918, when the subjoined letter was dispatched to Count von Hertling, then Chan
cellor of the Empire. There was indefeasible logic in the Cardinal's position upon the articles of The
Hague convention. Of even greater potency in this case was the attitude of the Belgian public toward Their
beloved bells.
The seizure of them would without question have inflamed the popujace. It would have constituted
not only an affront to religion but an outrage to national sentiment.
The ordered inventory of all the bronze bells and zinc organ pipes in Belgium was ineffective. The
Holy See was aroused and forwarded its own protest against confiscation. No formal announcement of
a change of purpose was made, but the bells were saved to chime exultantly when the King and his uncon
querable people came again into their own.
The ban against bell confiscation must have been a severe blow to the Germans in the later stages of
the war when the shortage of metals was acute. The substance of large bells is a mixture of tin and copper
Jn the proportion of four to one. Zinc and lead are used in the smaller ones. But no agents of destruction
Were made from a single bell in any of the churches that survived the first fury of the German invasion.
The Cardinal's triumph was unequivocal.
Cardinal Mercier' s Story
Inch ding hl correspondence with the German
authorities in Belgium during the war, 1914 to
1918, edited by Professor Fernand Mayenee of
Louvain University and translated by the Bene
dictine Monks of St. Augustine's, Ramsgatc.
England.
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TTtVENTS were soon to show that the fears of the Bel
" gian people as to the seizure of their church bells
were not ill-founded. Early in February, 1918, Baron
von Falkenhausen informed the Cardinal that he was
ordering inventory to be made of all existing bronze
bells and all zinc organ pipes in Belgium. This was the
prelude to the definite act of seizure.
' Government General of Belgium, Brussels,
February 8, 1918.
To His Eminence Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of
Malines.
I have the honor to inform your Eminence that
I shall at an early date U'ue an order providing for
a general inventory of all bronze bells, etc., and all
tine organ pipes throughout Belnium.
In view of my letter of September 2i, 1917, I did
not wish to fail giving you this information.
I offer your Eminence the assurance of my sin
cere esteem,
(Signed) VON FALKENHAUCZN,
Lieutenant General.
Letter to Chancellor
In the face of this decision the Cardinal, consider
ing all negotiations with the Governor General fruit
less, wrote directly to the Chancellor of the empire,
Count von Hertling, in these terms:
Archbishop's House, Malines.
February 14, 1918.
Mr. Chancellor The Governor General of Brus-
Bels, Baron von Falkenhausen, has informed me in a
letter dated February 8 that he will very shortly
proceed to seize the bells and organ pipes in our
-churches.
In September, 1917, it was already being noised
abroad that our bells were in danger. We tried then
to pacify the minds of our flock by inviting an as
surance from the Governor General that in accordance
with the oft-repeated promises of his predecessors he
would uphold the rights of the church in Belgium, the
Bishops of Namur and Liege joining their signa
tures to mine. The answer of the Governor General,
dated September 29, was evasive. That of February
8 now announces that we must no longer cherish any
illusions under this head and that failing the august
protection of his Imperial Majesty, the sacrilege will
be perpetrated in the course of a few days.
Our only remaining hope, Excellency, is in your
gracious intervention.
Article 46, of The Hajrue convention, imposes
upon the occupying power the duty of respecting both
the exercise of public worship and private property,
whether held individually or collectively. Again Ar
ticle 53 limits all requisitions in kind to the needs
of the army of occupation.
It is superfluous to add that bells and organ pipes
are not used to meet the needs of the army of oc
cupation. They come under the head of private
property and are used in the exercise of Catholic wor
ship. In the name of international law, subscribed to
by the highest authorities of the German Empire
and the Kingdom of Prussia, I beg your Excellency
to prevent the publication of the order with which
Belgium is threatened. Being a Catholic, like our
selves, your Excellency cannot be unaware that the
forcible seizure of a church bell is a sacrilege. A
bell is a consecrated object, which means that it is
irrevocably dedicated to the service of God. The
bishop has not merely blessed it, he has anointed it
with holv od and sacred rhrism in order that, accord
ing to the lanjruace of the liturgv. it may be sanc
tified by the Holy Ghost ("santificetur a spiritu
eancto") and the faithful recognize in its caR the
VOic of th" Ch"r"h siimmnninc Viot iriilr1--n t" Vi"-f"n
to her bosom ("Vasculum ad invitandos filios sanctae
ecclesiae praepaiatum, ut festina antes ad piae ma
tris ecclesiae premium cantent in ecclesia sanctorum
conticum novum) "
The voice of the bell summoning you to lead
the life of a Christian and which will summon you
again to the tribunal of God, vour Excellencv recog
nizes, reveres and regards with affection. Now that
you are chancellor of the empire, its appeal still
reaches your heart just as it did whn you were yet
a simnler member of the faithful The realities of
the spiritual life and ecclesiastical law are unchanged
by human greatr.ess. You can neither order nor au
thorize the ordering of tho profanation of bells con
secrated to Catholic worship without at the same
time participating in a sacriletre.
Let me add. Fxrel'encv. that this encroachment
on the rights of th" Church announced by the Gov
ernor General of Brussels would come as a great
shock to a people who have never wished Germany
anything but good a people Germany haB bound her
self br oath to take undr her protection and who
should by now be spared fresh sorrows.
Among the cherished hopes of your compatriots
fs assuredly that of one day renewing friendly rela
tions with our country. The remembrance of a viola
tion of religious rights so very dear to each diocese,
parish and every Christian family in our country,
would linger in the minds of our people for several
generations, fostering hatred instead of love. Will
Mt ycur Excellency thereore come to the conclusion
, that the economic future of Germany is inevitably
Viwl up with tho vindication of international law
a tha rights of conscience?
' '$- Ow venerable colleagues in the German and Aus-
tiian episcopate do not deny the validity of these
principles, but they have had to resign themselves to
the removal of bells from their churches with feelings
of despair in their souls. If perchance they were so'
blinded by patriotism as to tolerate an evil they were
powerless to prevent, our patriotism on the con
trary only gives additional foi'ce to the law of re
sistance. We should, indeed, be traitors to our
church and our country weie we to be guilty of the
cowardice of supplying the enemy with material for
engines of destruction destined only to bring death
into the tanks of the heroes who are sacrificing their
lives for us.
I make this my appeal to the man whose noble
career has been devoted to the service of right, to a
Christian who has always considered it an honor to
champion the rights of the Church and of the con
sciences of Catholics.
In conclusion I beg the chancellor of the empire
to receive the expiession of my sincere esteem
(Signed) D. J. CARDINAL MERCIER,
Archbishop of Malines.
The Holy See on its own account also made press
ing appeals to the imperial government to prevent the
impending confiscation.
It was owing to these various representations that
the threat of the Governor General remained a dead
letter and the bells in the Belgian churches were saved.
CHAPTER XLV
The Cardinal Proves That the Scarcity of Agri
cultural Products in Occupied Belgium Is
Due Solely to the Action of the German
''Centrals'' He Denounces Certain Serious
Outrages Committed by German Soldiers in
Churches and Complains of the Support
Given by the German Authorities to a Cam
paign Directed Against Himself by the
"Activists"
T7ARLY in the winter of 1917-1918, though the out--Li
put of the Belgian coal mines had not sensibly les
sened, coal was almost unobtainable. The occupying
power limited more and more the coal ration of the
people.
Acting on the instructions of the Governor Gen
eral, Baron von der Lancken informed the Cardinal that
it was needful to practice the greatest economy in the
consumption of coal. "This letter was a reproduction,
more or less, of one he had already written on the same
subject in February, 1917.
His Eminence replied directlv to the Governor Gen
eral, proving by figures that if the scarcity of coal
were great the blame must be solely attributed to the
German leauisitions. In general the scarcity and con
sequents the prevailing high prices of agricultural
products were due to the sinister 'action of the "Cen
trals." These nrpanizations, created bv the orrnnvi'ne
power ostensibly to regulate the equitable distribution
of produce aonp the inhabitants, had for their main
purpose the filching of the greater part of it for the
benefit of Germany.
Archbishop's House, Malines,
November 21, 1917.
To His Excellenev Baron von Falkenhausen, Governor
General, Brussels.
The letter with which your Excellency has fa
vored me through the obliging medium of Baron von
der Lancken informs me that the quantity of coal
allotted by your government for distribution among
the Belgian people consistently grows less and less,
so that not only private houses but also schools and
churches will have to suffer from the general scarc
ity. I do not complain of the extension of the same
treatment to all alike, but I fail to understand how
this regime of famine comes to be imposed upon us.
Belgium is a rich countrv and yet our people are im
poverished to the point of being hungrv and cold.
Normally, agriculture, industry and the working
of the mines are carried on with a marvelous inten
sity and behold, after three years of occupation the
factories are closed down and we are told that the
available agricultural products will not suffice for
our most pressing needs.
Official statistics, which I have by me, prove that
the coal-producing industry yielded in 1910 twenty
four million tons and in each of the four following
years twenty-three million tons. If we deduct from
these figures the quantity consumed in the collieries,
this leaves an annual averacre of twenty-one million
ton"! available for sale and distribution. Taking the
Belgian population at a rough estimate of six mil
lion, each inhabitant ought to be allotted more than
three tons, i. e., 3000 kils. of coal per annum.
I am not unaware that at the present time coal
miners are less numerous and their work less produc
tive, but who is to be held responsible for the reduc
tion of hands and energy?
Agricultural products are almost unobtainable
and are sold at exorbitant prices. One simple in
stance of this will suffice: Potatoes have been sold at
from 2f 50 to 3f a kilo (roughly from 48c. to 58c.
per pound). Our land yields sufficient quantity to
supply each inhabitant with about one and one-third
pounds per day, even after deducting the amount
necessary for feeding cattle and for use in certain in
dustries, but the Brusseli? people actually received
from September, 1916, to September, 1917, approxi
mately two ounces of potatoes per head per day!
Therefore, in the name of our starving people,
dismayed by the outlook for the winter, I beg your
Excellency to call to mind the promises made bv your
predecessors and realize your own responsibilities In
this matter.
(CONTINUED TOMORROW)
Comriant, MO. bv Pvblto Ledger Co.
Copyriunt, Canada, 1910, by PubHo Ledger Co.
Internaftortal Copyright, 1930. bv Pvblia Ledger Gt
A DAUGHTER of TWO WORLDS
1 A. Slorii o if no York Lit
I liu LEROY SCOTT
Author of "No. IS Vfathington Square." ''itarvjltpan," tto.
Printed apecfa! arranatment uillh
llouohton 'ff'" ro.
vv(ki lyni, 4iV uy AJIIW wvv-
She wns just a little surprised not
Knowing now tnoroiign unciu uvuji,
had been In his tclephoninc to tind
two other persons waiting in the dis
trict attorney's office the little, -widened,
furtive clevntor mini who Una
carried her to that secluded bower on
the Grantham roof the night she had
met Harry there, and ulbo the waiter
who had served them. ,
She answered the district attorneys
questions with fecrlsh eagerness she
had no greater desire just now, than to
clear Harry : and she did not spare her
self In expoMng the selfish reasons which
had kept her silent all this while. And
after she had finished, her statements
were corroborated and supplemented by
the little elevator man, by the waiter,
and bv Uncle George, who at last had
been freed to tell what he knew.
The district attorney gave ijn order
to an attendant, then closed his ec
in thought, and there was a long hush
then Hurry Edwards was brought in
under guard. There were no longer
reasons for his silence, and he likewise
told of being on the Grantham roof, and
he also told of Sam Conway's frenzied
appeal to him that far-gone night of the
murder and of their secret meeting In
Conway's inner office.
The district attorney was a relentless
prosecutor in the courtroom, but he wns
a very human being out pf it.
"rduauK" he Mud briefly, "it seems
pretty thoroughly established that on
were on the (Irnnthnm roof nt the time
Murdock wns kl'led it seems that ou
have n perfect alibi. If this stands up
under further examination, and 1 think
it will, I shall ask for our dismissal
in nnurt tomorrow morning. That's
nil, Edwards."
As Hairv wns led out the district
nttorncv "-aid in a crisp voice to an at
tendant: "Oet out pancrs for tho nrre-
of Sam Conwav for the Murdock mur-
Aar- nttil r-of Mm nt nncp."
Then he turned to Jennie: his occ,
thnnirli not unkind, wns firm with offi-
einl decision.
"Of I'oursej you understand, Mrs.
Harrison" Jennie "-hivercd n little at
the um: of her married mine "that you
nre under arrest for this Harrison for- ,
gor."
Jennie nodded. Then she let her head
slip upon her fathers shoulder. Black
Jerry held her to him in a fierce, de
fiant love. She felt his great ehest
heaving again; but she had no sense
of what was going on within his soul
other tlinn a feeling that lie loved her.
She felt herself n weak, broken creature
so unheroic, o unsplendid so piti
fully different from all the confident
dreams she had had. How she had
fallen! how she had disappointed n'l
those who had loved her! Tor herself
she did not care very much. This was
the end.
Presently Casey touched her should
er. She lose submissive , and followed
him bach across the Bridge of Sighs.
CHAPTER XL
Hon IHack Jerty Set Right the World
TDLACK JERRY had Kept in the back---'
ground of the various scenes since
Jennie hnd driven up to the Tombs,
not merely because this had been ad
visable, but because the chaos in his
soul knew no purpose, because he was
inarticulate. And now that lie had a
few moments with her In the Tombs,
and a plan was beginning to grow into
a dim shape out of the chaos, he still
was almost wordless.
"Dad I'm so sorry after all you've
done for me to have disappointed you
'ike this!" Jennie wept.
"You'd have been all right if it
hadn't been for me!" lie aid huskily.
.nu aespitc tlie presence of Casey nnd
Uncle George and guards, he "swept
her against his chest nnd held her in
an embrace which ticmb'ed d'ite its
power. "You're a I right, arjhow
you're mj kid just the same!"
After that he pi'shed her from him,
but still held her two hands. "What
cer happens, Jennie, just you remem
ber that your father at least tried to
gne jou a chance. Good-bj !"
His eyes, with a brilliant strange
look, clung to her face in fierce pain
and love as though he would keep her
with hint always. Then he piessed a
swift, crushing kiss upon her lips and
abruptly walked awny. "Dad dad!"
Jennie called after him, but lie did not
o much as look back upon her. And
when Uncle George started to leave
with him Jerry roughly told his old
friend he wanted nobody's company,
and he strode out of the Tombs alone.
Tifteen min es later Tliack Jerry
was in the little loom nt the rear of
the Pekin, his offite, where so many
.phases of Jennie's life had been deter
mined. The door wns locked, his el
bows wcro on the table, and his hands
were gripping hln thick dark hair.
Grief, love, a sense of complete failure,
hatred, revenge, surged in a wild tu
mult in his soul. He had always been
a primitive elemental man, cud never
in all his life not even In the long ago
when Jennie's mother hnd left him
had his few elements dominated him so
violently as in this solitary hour.
He had dreamed great dreams tor
Jennie and they had failed utterly
failed. In his present dark mood, in
which he could not see values in their
right proportions, he did not spare,
himself. Jennie had come to her pres
ent pass largely because of him, his
position in life the name he had borne.
He recalled with electric vividness the
words of tho judge that night when
the girlish Jennie had been on trial
how, the judge had said that a girl
could have no chance in life who had
a man Mkc the notorious Black Jeiry
for a father. And that was true
every word of it truel He had tried
to help her, but he had been to her
only a fatal burden. Except for hbn,
nnd the heritage of his dark name, it
would never have been necessary for
her to have assumed a new personality.
And even so, except for him, she would
not now be in her- extreme predica
ment; the charges against her would
probably count for little, might indeed
never have been made, had the Harri
sons not been able to point to her rec
ord that she wns the daughter of the
notorious Iilnck Jerry Mnlonc. that she
had once before been on trial for
forgery.
And for nil her early misdeeds Jerry
held himself blamab'c: through all '"
childhood he had never given her right
care.
Yes. lie hnd always been a handicap
upon her. It would hnve been far, far
better for her if she hod never had him
for a father or, at least, with his
being her father, better that she might
have growtftip and lived without ever
being under the ignominy of his name.
And ho saw himself In the future;
whatever her future might be as be
ing a handicap. Bo long as he lived,
so long ns his name was remembered,
she would be known ns ''Black Jerry's
daughter," and forever ho would be
dragging her down!
IHack Jerry may not have been judg
ing truly, but In this dark orgasm of
his soul -this Is how ho reasoned, how
his whole being reacted and func
tioned And Slltn Jackson, who hnd betrayed
her, n'nd Kenneth Harrison, who had
begged her to commit this forgery to
sayo him and then had thrown the
whole blamo upon her his whole being
w as clcnchfed with an overmastering de
sire for vengeance upon these twoj For
vengeance and some thing more.
His passions did not subside,
but his brain became more composed and
began to work carefully, constructively,
remorselessly.
For an hour he sat thinking think
ing with a care and an intensity with
which he had never thought before.
Shortly after 0 ho relaxed. He had
thought out everything. He carefully
wrote out three brief messages. Then
he wrote a short noto to Jennie, step
ped out to his bar, and handed it to
his bartender. "Bill," he said, in nn
even voice, "I'm going out nnd may
not be back for a day or so. -Get word
to Un'cle George to come by this way
in the morning and ask him to take
this to Jennie down at the Tombs."
(CONTINUED TOMORROW)
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1417 CHESTNUT STREET
Members
Philadelphia Stock ISxchnnre
New York Stock Exchange
We Always Have on Hand a List of High Grade Bonaa
Correspondence Invited
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State Bank of Pli ladelphia
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STEAMSHIP TICKETS
MERCHANTS & MINERS
Transportation Company
KitulilUhed 18S4 ,
Millions of I'astrnfers Carried
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COASTWISE LINES
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Freight only until Mar 1st.
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Freight-Passenger
From Norfolk Ererr 10 Dan
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.YOU KNOW WHEN
YOU GET YOUR MONEY
WHETHER WE COLLECT
YOUR BAD DEBTS OR NOT.
THAT'S what a Credit Insurance
Policy in the "London" means if you
comply with the terms of your policy.
It is not a "hope" or a "promise" that some day
. you may get your money from the debtor. It
is a "guarantee," and you do not have to wait.
When one of your covered accounts is not paid
at maturity, it is construed to mean a "loss"
under the policy. Any excess of your normal
loss the "London" pays within thirty days, and
each succeeding covered loss within thirty days
after it occurs.
Why wait for more bad debts ? Asking us for
particulars does not obligate you.
OUR SUPER-SERVICE
AT YOUR
SERVICE
Established afmSiTT Eelitem sixty-nine
LONDON GUARANTEE AND
ACCIDENT COMPANY LTD.
R. A. IRVING, General Agent
Phone Lombard 4016 820 LaFayette Bid.
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GERMAN CITY
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INDUSTRIAL BONDS
CLOSEST QUOTATIONS
BOUGHT SOLD .
UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF DEFINITE BONDS, WE ISSUE
"INTERIM TRUST CERTIFICATES"
SERVING AT THE SAME TIME, AS' RECEIPTS FOR
THE EQUIVALENT FUNDS HELD BY THE
LINCOLN TRUST COMPANY
7 WALL STREET, NEW YORK
WHO ARE ACTING AS TRUSTEES
THESE "INTFRIM TRUST CERTIFICATES" ARE TO
BE SURRENDERED AGAINST THE BONDS
UPON THEIR ARRIVAL
ALFRED R. RISSE
SPECIALISTS IN ALL FOREIGN GOV'T BONDS
50 BROADWAY NEW YORK
TEL. BROAD 5204-5.6-7-6581-7468
CLOSEST 'MARKET IN
BRITISH, FRENCH, RUSSIAN, ITALIAN
AND MEXICAN GOVERNMENT BONDS
CURRENCIES OPTIONS ON FOREIGN EXCHANGE
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