Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-12-24 | Page 12 | [Untitled]

Strange as It ft Seems BYr By John Hix r t i iI f I 1 V r 4 tr c. c fe ON off RTH 1 1 h A t OVER d 6 A N yf 10 T E Y Of Hf 7 CHURCH 1 i r CE Or fd zI THE of 1 TIE CRl WAR W R ii t d 6 i I g l 9 4 t tier oman L I l 1 WAS WORTH Y YONE ONE s NT M A SoNs SoN SoN- o ARE 5 IN AN OPPONENT N AMES TOWN Wil IN ouT tL yE T of A BARREI r IS THE NoRE RE SHOTS rN No r WAR OVER A KEY HEY Christmas is a time when the thoughts and actions of men should be farthest from matters of warfare yet strange as it seems one of history's history's history's his his- torys tory's greatest wars was fought over the right to conduct services in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem the site generally fixed as Christs Christ's birthplace This event was the Crimean war of 56 1853 which cost half a million million mil mil- lion lives and more than 1 billion dollars Participants were England France Austria Russia Prussia Turkey and Sardinia Copyright 1938 for The Telegram