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...Sunday Bishop Thomas Louis Heylen, of Namur, in France, for 20 years the president of the Permanent Committee of the Internation Eucharistic Congresses, celebrated High Mass at Holy Name Cathedral, decorated for the occasion by green, scarlet, gold and silver drapes. Eleven cardinals heard him. (The twelfth, Cardinal O'Connell, who had promised to assist, was still aboard ship.) Two thousand lesser prelates and priests and a very few laymen were there also. After Mass, Cardinal Mundelein officially welcomed Cardinal Bonzano to the Congress. Cardinal Bonzano responded...
...ready to open its eyes. Then Burgomaster Adolphe Max of Brussels got busy. His popularity dated back to the fall of 1914, when the Germans were goose-stepping across Belgium in seven-league boots. General Von Suttwitz ordered Max arrested. It was done. Next day. Max was at Namur. A few days later, at Glatz-interned. His townsfolk posted placards-they warned the Germans that they had gasoline, vitriol, butcher knives, and would use them if Max were injured. After languishing four years in a German camp, Max returned. Today, he leads the Liberals in the Chamber of Deputies...
Through Belgium the line followed the route of the original German advance, through Namur and Liege; from the train war here, but the very names of the town stir the imagination...
...study for many years, will explain the development of French music from the songs of the Middle Ages to the Marseillaine, and will sing a group of old songs of Old France. Mr. de Andria is a native of Smyrna, of French and Italian parents. He has studied at Namur and the Conservatory of Brussels. He will be assisted at the piano by Mr. George B. Weston of the French department...