It is not generally known that during the air raids in the war, two shells pierced St. Paul's Cathedral, though fortunately neither exploded. They went, however, through oak beams, and stone stafrcases, with the precision of gimlets, and buried themselves in the crypt. This damage also had to be made good. St. Paul's is a Cathedral without any building fund whatever, and its only revenues are derived from the small payment made. from the collecting boxes and from visitors to the Whispering Gallery and the Dome. In a normal year, the latter revenue should be about: £2,000, but in 1918, it was only £450. The authori may, therefore, well be anxious.
We do not speak of it, but a for Sundays ago, a piece of stone fell from the higher part of the roof on to the floor of the Cathedral. happened one Sunday between the morning and afternoon Services. Tt was not a large piece, but it split an oak chair, and would have killed anyone underneath on the spot.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.