Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-20
Pope Plus X Died
 This Morning
LAST ILLNESS BROUGHT ON BY
 EUROPEAN WAR
SITUATION GRIEvED HIM
Believed Peaos or War in Society ei State Depended More on the Multi. tude Than on the RuIers-Gevey catarrh Cause of Death.

Rome. Aug. 20, 2.2O a. m-Pope Plus x died at 1.2o o'clock this morning.
 The pope's last illness began almost coincidentally with the great war in Europe Those close to him believe that grief over the situation brought on the final crisis and so overwhelmed hin. that he was unable in his SOeh year to withstand still another attack s< his old enemy. gouty catarrh.
 In III Health for Many Years.
 III health had been the pontiffs lot for many years, and intermittently the attacks have been so serious that the world was prepared several times to hear of his passing. During the sum mer there had been numerous details from the vatican that his indisposition was serious. As late as Aug. 10 last. upon the occasion of the eleventh an- niversary of his coronation, Pope Plus granted numerous audiences Two days later 1t became known that he had cancelled virtually all engage ments His attendants reported that he was unable to work, and that he sat listless and silent for hours, evidently breeding over the great clash of arms in Europe
 His physician, Dr. Marchiafava, or- dered his holiness to bed on Aug 16, when 1t was announced that the war and the intense heat in Rome had QepTeSs5 HILL III OCAs stS continued to dream of the conf1ict oy night and to discuss it by day.
 DepIored War.
 q shall not cease to implore God 70 put a stop to this inhuman butchery," he declared. His physicians had to deal with this mental condition as well as physical suffering. Arrangements by which Cardinal Merry del Val the papal secretary of state, would render his holiness a daily report on the war situation were made. The pope de- sired to see some way in which he might exert his influence to check the bloodshed. and he was the more af- fected because any action seemed use- less Shocked by Break Between Austria and Servia.
 At the commencement of the Euro- pean crisis he had addressed an ex- | hortation to all the Catholics or the | world. asking them to lift their souls | toward Christ. who alone was able to aid, and he called upon the clergy to i offer public prayer. | The break between Austria and Ser- via from the first became a source of great grief to him, as the vatican was most friendly toward both nations. He was inexpressibly shocked, he said. at | the assassination of Archduke Fran | cis Ferdinand, the heir to the Austri- | an throne, WlOs nke HI lne T1dpSOuH SSB | was an ardent Catholic. and was sym pathetic toward little Servia, with which the vatican had but. recently concluded a friendly concordat. Views on Peace.
 | The pope's views on peace, embodied | in an allocution delivered at the coi- sistory at which he created thirteen | new cardinals last May, constituted | such a remarkable document that the | Carnegie Peace union, founded in | February by Andrew Carnegie with an endowment of s2.000. 900. decided to begin it's educational activities in oe- half of disarmament and arbitration among the clergy of the Roman Cath oEc church by sending to each or the 23, 900 priests of the United States and Canada copy of this allocution- In it the pope referred to men of dis tinction and force planning schemes for preventing the calamities of revo- lutions and the slaughter of war. and | for insuring the blessing of peace, Il which, coupled with the fact that he
 spoke at length with the three Amert-
 can contradictions Farley aud I O'Connell-was interpreted as refer
 ring to the efforts of President Wilson
 and Secretary of State Bryan in behaE
 of universal peace Z
 Today" he said, Hpeace or war in
 society and the state does not depend
 so much on the rulers as on the multi
 tudes. Deprived of the light of truth
 revealed by God. unused to the disci-
 pline of Christ, what wonder if the . multitudes, the prey of blind passions | rush to the common ruin, instigated
 by the clever agitators who seek noth.
 ing but their own advantage"