SERVICE AT ST. PAUL’S

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1940, Page 5

SERVICE AT ST. PAUL’S

INTERCESSION FOR FINNISH PEOPLE. RUGBY. January 30. A national service of intercession and witness for the Finnish people in St Paul's Cathedral on Thursday will consist of the English Litany sung in procession, to be followed by special intercessions led by the Archbishop of Canterbury from the pulpit which he will broadcast not only to Britain, but also to Scandinavia and Finland.

The Archbishop of Canterbury will read a special, message from Dr Luther. Archbishop of Finland. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs will attend in state, as will also the Finnish Minister and the Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and Swiss Ministers, the Chancellor of the University of London. the Metropolitan Germanos of Thyateria, Chaplains of Scandinavia and other foreign communities in London. and a delegation of the British Free Churches. CIVILIAN CASUALTIES NEAR FOUR HUNDRED KILLED TOLL OF SOVIET AIR RAIDS. (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) HELSINKI, January 31. The official list of civilian casualties through air raids from November 30 to January 29 states that 377 were killed, 323 seriously injured and 585 slightly injured. The efficiency of A.R.P. is shown by the fact that the Russians dropped 2500 bombs on 45 places on January 20. and damaged only 90 houses, killed 4 persons and injured ■l5.