Paris, Dec. 25.
"The Archbishop of Paris extends his greetings to all of you and once again, he wishes that peace will reign over you," Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, declared in his Christmas message to the people of France today.
"Alas! it does hot yet prevail over the earth," the Cardinal added. "Very near us and in the Far East, blood is still flowing. However the year which is coming offers hopes: Last September, when a war appeared imminent, Heaven on one hand and active collaboration between France and her great ally on the other, removed the threat."
Cardinal Verdier stressed the closeness of the ce-operation between France and Great Britain, and advocated, a union of all Frenchmen in facing any danger which may present itself, asking them to accept sacrifice:
"Not far from us, under different regimes, others are accepting sacrifices much barder/than ours. and they have not privilege and beauty of volupfáry sacrifices," the Archbishop coi "Let us remember that crusade is freedom, the freedom dear to us and which 's real honour, a con-
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