Cathedral Radio Links Jerusalem With Outside World
(N.Z.P.A.—Reuter—Copyright.) Recd. 7.25 p.m. London, May 24. While the explosion of bursting shells shakes St. George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem, the Right Rev. W. H. Stewart, in long purple is inside operating the British community’s radio transmitter, which links up the scattered British community and sends correspondents’ despatches, says Reuter’s Jerusalem correspondent. No armed men are allowed in the Cathedral grounds, but the Jewish and Arab battle- . lines are only fifteen yards apart outside. Shell blast has smashed many of the Cathedral s windows,, and one shell pierced the) nave.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 25 May 1948, Page 5
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