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EIGHTEEN STEAAIERS ICE-BOUND
LONDON, Jan. 12
The “Daily Express” Berlin correspondent reports that eighteen German steamers from Leningrad are caught in an icefield in the Gulf of Finland. Alucli anxiety is felt as to their safety as they are running short of coal and food. The German Ambassador in Moscow is urging Russia to carry provisions to the ice-bound ships by aeroplane, and meanwhile the German Government. has sent the heavy battleship Hessen with an icebreaker to smash n way through the ice.
FREISMASONRY FOR BIDDEN. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 11. The Labour Cabinet has issued an Order-in-Council forbidding and naval officers to belong societies, including freemasonry, ulus mav affect the King who is a freemason and the Lord High Admiral. Naval and military officers resent the order and declare it is a violation of the constitution.
CHURCH BURNED LONDON, January 11The Church of St. Michael's, Bedminster. Bristol, has been burned down. The damage is £12,000. The Church was strongly AngloCatholic and the police believe the opponents of the ritual deliberately set _ fire to the church, the vestry alone es- > raping- A safe therein weighing seve- -N ral hundred weight was found overturned and the vestments were in confusion, but there is no real evidence of theft, though the miscreants apparently attempted to suggest burglary.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1926, Page 2
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