BOMBS ON CONVENT.
SISTER 100 YEARS OLD. “NO USE IN WORRYING.” or- LONDON;, October 8. Although Sister Daniels got up today at 6 a.m., as usual, in; her cell in a Liverpool convent and went to Mass, there wejre two good reasons why nobody would have been surprised if she had not. Only a few hours earlier a fire-bomb, crashing through the convent roof; had fallen within a few yards of the bed in. which she was sleeping. Sister Daniels is 100 years old. She only 1 woke up whetn firemen ran into the convent to deal with a salvo of (bombs. Even then sheTay in bed and watched them stamp out the flames. When, she was,' spoken! to this afternoon, (workmen were piling burned-out bomb ca§£S. jon_ihe-lv-i£ehenr table, vjhe h jdteeKir lim’"|nrrttiTrg"tcr watch them, then said :•( “What was the use of worrying ?' The firemen knew what to do.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 38, 25 November 1940, Page 8
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