11 MAY 1918, Page 3

The Papal organ, the Osservatore Romano, formally denied last week

that the Papal Nuncio at Vienna had taken action against the Prince-Bishop of Laibach for associating himself with the Southern Slav agitation. The Bishop, who is the head of the Slovene Roman Catholic Party in the Austrian Reichsrath, has been arrested, but the Nuncio repudiates all connexion with the affair. We are glad to record this denial, from which it may perhaps be inferred that the Vatican is unwilling to be used as the tool of Austria against the Roman Catholic Slays.