" APPETITE FOR HUMAN BLOOD "

Last Letters of de Borchgrave
Front Our Belgian Correspondent One of the last letters of Baron Jacques de I3orchgrave, son of the Belgian Ambassador to the Holy See, is a hastily scribbled note describing the rescue of suspects from the lust of Red executiorcrs in Madrid. Baron de Borchgrave was found dead in Madrid at the beginning of last month. There is every reason to believe that he was murdered by the Reds.
It was possible at the price of great efforts," he wrote, " to get some few of the women out and then . . . alas] It was awful! The loosening of base and cruel passion, the appetite for human blood is abominable: the thought that the human beings you were Irving to save are going to be slain the moment they leave your hands, the terror depicted on their faces and the joy on the faces of their executioners, this is such an atrocious memory!
"The cruelty of this Revolution probably goes beyond anything one can imagine and it is probable that the eyewitnesses will never be believed when they are able to freely tell of what had happened under their own eyes."
It is now certain that it was his work in saving the unfortunate victims of the Reds that brought down upon Baron de Borchgrave the sentence of death.
Reds' Treachery
When diplomatic relations between Berlin and Madrid were broken off, the Madrid Diplomatic Corps undertook to save those who had been sheltering at the German Embassy.
Each legation did its best to rescue and find an asylum within its walls for as many as possible. But their work of mercy was violently opposed by the Reds, who snatched the refugees away and murdered them.
In face of the silence of the Belgian Foreign Minister, the truth about the assassination of de Borchgrave is leaking out in Brussels, where everyone is repeating the saying " Murder will out."
La Metropole, a paper known for the accuracy of its statements, declares:
" There is every reason to believe that the unfortunate and heroic official of the Belgian Embassy was less directly the victim of the Spanish Militia of the Madrid Junta or Valencia Government, than of the Moscow G.P.U.
" The Spaniards would not or could not oppose the murder decided by the Soviet Gang, whose servile auxiliaries they are in their own land."
De Llano Denies Charges
General Queipo de Llano has replied to the charges made against the Nationalists of wholesale murder and brutality. In a signed letter to the Catholic Herald (page 9) de Llano refutes the allegations made in the League of Nations paper, Headway, and describes the measures taken by the Nationalists to look after the destitute in Nationalist territory.
Bishop Consecrated
Mgr. Joseph McCormack was consecrated Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle yesterday at St. Anne's Cathedral, Newcastle.