NEWS FROM ABROAD

Sixteen students from various parts of the British Empire were included among the candidates for an ordination held in the chapel of Propaganda College, Romc, shortly before Christmas. Among them were clerics from Kenya, four from Australia, one from South Africa, and others from Tanganyika, Ceylon, India, British lionduras. Priests were also ordained at the same ceremony for Abyssinia (three for the Latin rite), Norway, and also one for Jetsam who is a convert from Confucianism.
The Rev. van Lierop, whose death in a Netherlands concentration camp has already been announced, was editor of the Catholic Press Bureau at Breda, Holland, and served as army chaplain with the Netherlands Forces. From the advertisement irtaerten by his relatives simply announcing that Requiem Mass for Fr. van Licrop will be said in his native town, Steenbergen, it appears that, as in the case of Dr. Hocben, the Germans have not released his body for interment.
Admiral Kumaichi Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese navy, is not a Catholic. Enquiries in regard to his religion have been based on confusion of his name with that of the late RearAdmiral Sinziro Tamamoto, a former president of Catholic Action in Japan. The magazine Liberty, mistakenly listed him as " Catholic." Actually, Kumaichi Yamamoto was not born to the name by which he now is known. When a young orphan boy in Northern Japan he was adopted by a family named Yamamoto, a common name In Japan, and he merely took the name
of those who befriended him. He is no relative of Admiral Sinziro Yamato, who is reported to have died
in F1a9t4h1e.r Clement Falter, a priest of the Society of the Precious Blood, is the first Ar.-.erican Catholic chaplain known to have been killed in offensive action on foreign soil, it was announced at the Military Ordinariate in America. Father Falter was killed on November 8 while landing with his troops at Fedahla. North Africa.
George Sippary, pow at the Sheridan Jesuit Novitiate in the United States, is the first member of the Kotzebue tribe and the second Eskimo to don the Jesuit cassock. But his grandparents anti his parents before him travelled from mission to mission in Alaska, helping the Jesuits establish and consolidate their work. As a Jesuit Brother, he hopes to return to his native land and continue that labour.
Mgr. Matthew Remick Archbishop of Adelaide, has just returned from a visitation to outlying sections of his See and states that he met. two women, aged 82 and 74 respectively, who walk a total of ten miles back and forth over hill country in their daily attendance at Mass.
The confiscation of all church bells in Holland to be melted down for the German war industry has been ordered by Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi leader, according to information received from The Hague via Zurich, Switzerland, by the Netherlands Information Service in New York. The dispatch quoted Anton Mussert, Dutch Nazi leader, as saying : " This is a perfectly natural measure. A thousand years ago, in times of war, church treasures were used for the protection of the country."
Failure of " hundreds of thousands of boys and girls in the Netherlands " to join the National Jeudgstorm was blamed on to the opposition of " conservative and embittered parents " and " ecclesiastical and secular teachers " in a short-wave broadcast from Berlin in Dutch heard in America. " Young people have been advised," the Nazi speaker said, " to do everything in their power to induce their parents to see the light and, if necessary, to act directly contrary to their orders."
"I suffered with Neuritis for 2 years. When I first took Urilloc I suffered badly with fny feet and hands. Mytoes and fingers were so swollen I could scarcely hobble from one room to another. In less than 48 hours after taking Urillac I was entirely free from pain and the swellings had disappeared.
E.A.H. London, E.Ii.
Rheumatic twinges, shooting pains in the back, pains In the joints, sleepless nights and
days of pain, are Nature's warnings that the system is unableto rid itself of oneof its most harmful by-products known as uric acid.
For over 30 years URILLAC has proved Itself the most efficacious remedy for such painful complaintsasrheumatism lumbago, neuritis, etc. Two URILLAC tablets In a little water stop pain QUICKLY & SAFELY. A -hors course of URILLAC tablets will remove the cause and purge the system of the crystallised deposits in :he swollen and sore loints and muscles and, by clearing the blood of the malignant influence of uric acid, promote healthy vitality.