ANGLO-RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 36, 5 October 1912, Page 7

ANGLO-RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP.

Aii interesting ceremony took place at Archangel on August 12th, when the church hell taken by a British naval force from ttyc tamo,us Solovctzk: monastery during the. war of 1851 was formally returned. Thei bell had been brought from England in the steamer Keiihet,', iind ‘on the hihding-stage to which she was moored wore assembled the civil and military authorities, the foreign Consuls and Commander Grenfell, the British Naval Attache in St. Petersburg. Th,e document attesting the handing over of the bell was signed by Commander Grenfell and M. Brautshaninoff, the Governor who, after receiving i the , heb, proposed the health of King George,* saying that the rctnni of' the hell was a mark of the mutual ‘friendship, and sympathy existing between Great Britain and Russia. He called for cheers for the King, which were given with enthusiasm, while a band played the British National Anthem. Commander Grenfell then drank the health of the Czar, and expressed the hope that with that day’s ceremony past events might be consigned to oblivion. This was the signal for another outburst of enthusiastic cheering, and the Russian National Anthem was played.