BIBLES FOR BOMBS
HOW FINNS RETALIATED. How the Finns "bombed" the Russian;: with Bibles was told in London by an Englishman just returned from Finland. He is Mr W. G. Wiseman, of the British and Foreign Bible Society. "It happened at Sordavalo. a town on the northern shores of Lake Ladoga." he said. For years we had been printing hundreds of thousands of copies of die Scriptures there, in Russian as well as in Finnish. "Early in the Russian offensive the town was bombed and the society's building set ablaze. But the Finns managed to salve tons of the Bibles. "One night they decided to retaliate and bomb the Russian lines. They loaded their planes and set off —but instead of high explosives they carried the Gospels. High over the enemy lines they opened fire, spraying the Russians with BiJoies. Some of the Russian prisoners captured later had copies of these Bibles in their pockets. Those who did not possess them asked for supplies from the Finns. We had to print a special edition for them."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400508.2.69
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1940, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
176BIBLES FOR BOMBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1940, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in