Arizona republican., 1917-01-14

'hey nave been unable to hear any thing. are read wounded. sick or pris- Cners.
 fhe Pope has found this one of the saddcsl phases of the war. Notwith- standing the size of his daily mail. he reads all such letters himself In the beginning of the war he attempted tu investigate each personally. but the task became so formidable that 1t was necessary 10 establish a separate de- partment at the Vatican. now in charge of Father Huismarn. under the PoDe's direction. His holiness after reading one Of the appeals makes some notations on its envelop- and sends 1t to the department of lost soldiers. which ms it's offices on the fourth floor of the Vatican near the Fapal secretary of state. Here are some thirty priests and civilians engaged in clerical work.
 The department has access io off, cial records transmitted by the Prus san minister Of war to tae holy See at Lugano. Switzerland and has of- fices at Paris, Constantinople Vienna. FIeihdrg. Brussels and Padeborr N estphGlia. Germany. with several minor branches in other countries
 Tho department has become one of the most highly organized of any in
 
 red letters 8 day. and to date such letters have run up to a total of more than 5.0p0.aO0 AS the department re- turns all money enclosed in letters of appeal and as a person writing from | England cannot well enclose Italian stamps for international correspond ; ! ence. tho stamp bin alone of the de- | partment has been upwards of ' s200 00O
 After making an official demand on ! the government of the country where 1 the lost soldier is supposed to be. the | department causes each new name to ! posted up in the military prison ] camps. by the aid of q Catholic 1 chaplain always present. in the hope | that some of the lost soldiers com rades may see the name and offer some clue that will lead to his loca i ion. Several thousands of such lists | have been printed There are no lists each containing 200 names for the Italian army alone. making thus a i total of 22 .006 lost Italian soldiera Asside from this, the department has l copies of official army prisoner lists, arranged by nations. and il immedl . { ately searches these lists carefully for the name of the lost soldier.
 Despite the difficulties of the task. the department has so far been able i to Ind more than 10000 lost soldiers and the Pope has received a treasured collection of letters Of thanks from families often from little children. who address him as Mister" or who give him the title names of popes dead many hundreds of years.
 The correspondent of the Associated | Press on a visit to the departmen, saw l bundle of letters that had ius, been sent by the Pope. possibly ii | in number. and on the envelope of each one in his own handwriting was written directions concerning it's dis position. Among the heap was a let Ter from his sister. the Countess Persico della Chiesa. of Genoa. inc Pope Eome city. asking that searct | pe made Tor certain soldier oI Fenon. The countess begs attention again. the Pope had written on the letter. Another one of the letters wa. one of thanks from a French famil, whose son. Jean Laforgue, had been Tor two years in the Orient withou, being able to send news to his famil, ot himself, but the Pope had beer able to discover this lost son at sam san. in distant Turkey.
 Ancther letter was one of thank, rom the family of Count Hugo dc Rochefoit, lieutenant in the aeronau tie corps, who. during the Somme of tensiVe. fell into the German lines bF telegraphng to the Nuncio al | Munich, Bavaria. the department had been able to learn that the young mer mad lied in the hospital of Vunant ana had been buried in the cemeter, attached to the hospital Tt was ai least 2 consolation for the family to