VOLLEYS IN CHURCH
SYDNEY CONGREGATION SURPRISED.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIRIfIBT.)' (Received 3rd August, 10 a.m!)
SYDNEY, This Day. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral was yesterday densely crowded for a solemn Memorial Field Mass for the Allied sailors and soldiers who fell in. the Great War. A firing squad of ten I marines from the warship West Virginia was present, and fired a volley at each of the three times the Sacred Host was elevated. Tho volleys sounded within the building like three heavy explosions, and though the congregation had been previously warned, they created a . sensation and startled the people. Several fainted, and an elderly woman, overcome by her excitement, vigorously clapped her hands and- danced before the altar, till she was finally induced to kneel quietly.
The ceremony was a novelty in An»tralia, though common in Europe and America.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 29, 3 August 1925, Page 5
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139VOLLEYS IN CHURCH Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 29, 3 August 1925, Page 5
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