Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-22
POPE PROTESTS
DESTRUCTION OF
RHEIMS ED|F|CE
Benedict XIV. Warns Kaiser 1t
Is Crime That Cries for
Gods Vengeance.
FRANCIS JOSEPH URGED
TO DEFEND HIS RELIGION
London Hears That Germans
Now Intend to Occupy Fa-
nous Art Centre.
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Sept % A Rome dis
patch to the Central News says that
Pope. Benedict XIV has telegraphed
to the German Emperor protesting
against the destruction of the Cathe-
dral at Rheims.
Pope Benedict says this crime cries
for Gods vengeance. He warns the
Kaiser lest the destruction of the
Lords temples provoke the anger OF
God. against which the most power
full armies are powerless.
The Pope has sent a similar tele-
gram to Emperor Francis Joseph, of
Austria, urging him as Catholic
sovereign to defend his religion.
When the news of the destruction
of the Rheims cathedral was con-
veyed to the Pope he was at first in
credulous and said that it was inn
possible for such a thing to occur
in the twentieth century. When he
learned that the report was true he
was horrified. He at once instructed
Cardinal Ferrata, the papal secretary
of state. to telegraph to Cardinal
Annette, the archbishop of Paris, Tor
details.
A Paris dispatch to the Express
says Military experts here believe
that the Germans Intend TO raze the
entire city of Rheims While the
city itself is immaterial from a mill
tary standpoint, II is the center OF
district of the highest strategic value.
The German forces, in great strength,
are close to the city on the north
side. while the French batteries oc-
cupy the heights to the south.
While the German main attack is
developing at Rheims the French at
tack is centering toward Noyon. The
plateau OF Craonne Is held by 100,oOo
Germans, while the village is occupied
by the French. Blucher, who was de-
feated by Napoleon on this same
ground, declared that 25,00O troops
could hold this plateau against any
odds"
The Daily Mails correspondent at
Rheims. under date of Sunday, sends
this description of the scenes there:
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portals have been entirely consumed.
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sion that it could be possible to re-
store the cathedral in time at a great
cost, hut some OF the damage can
never be atoned, for example, the
great rose window. Not all of this,
however. is gone, but there are holes
in 1t said to see.
THE situation in the city is most
serious. The people are living in cell
lars. provisions are becoming ex-
hausted and no bread Is being haked."
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 22.-~The CORES
pondent Of the Daily To.egraph at
Rheims sends this story of the situa-
tion at that point.
ITO the visitor Rheims, wreathed
in smoke and echoing with the boom
of cannonading, presents forlorn
and disconsolate sight Everywhere
there Is evidence of the damage done
by the shells of the big howitzers.
Whole houses are seeh with their in
teriors smashed into shapeless mass
of bricks, mortar and wood.
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