OCR Text |
Show I WHITE CK IN SKY WHEN SHIP imm sinks DUBLIN", Nov. 21. Over the sea -where the Dublin mail boat Leinster was sunk bv a German torpedo in the Irish channel, October JO with the loss of about 4S0 lives a great white cross was seen in a clear sky by residents of the lDublin coast, they aver. Panon Pirn, rector of Christ church, Kingstown, sent the following statement state-ment to the Irish Times: "On Saturday afternoon last there was a hank of cloud on the horizon and against a clear sky above it there appeared ap-peared for some moments the form of a great white cross of absolutely perfect per-fect shape. It was seen by at least four members of my own household as well as by other people. "One of the witnesses described it to mo that It had seemed to him first as If there were a great cloud figure with outstretched arms which, assumed assum-ed the form of a cross, and as the sharpness of its outline passed it seemed to be full of the faces of men and women. It "was just, as It were, over the place where the disaster to the Leinster happened. "One presumes to offer no explanation, explana-tion, but it was certainly there and at least it was a symbol of surpassing comfort" |