GREAT BRITAIN: Must Have Wet Sand!

"Is the very existence of St. Pauls Cathedral to be sacrificed on the altar ot commercialism?" asked Canon Sidney Arthur Alexander last week, and the whole Conservative press of Britain proceeded to shudder.

"Amazing as it sounds," continued the Canon, "the foundations of St. Pauls [which towers to a height of 365 ft.] are only four and a half feet deep. Beneath the cathedral there is only six feet of earth and then a bed of wet sand twenty feet deep. Springs pass under the cathedral from the northeast to the southwest and...

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