GAOLING OF PRIESTS
INDIGNATION IN LYONS
LONDON, September 11. Popular indignation has been aroused in Lyons by the imprisonment of eight Jesuit priests who refused to surrender for deportation several hundred Jewish and non-Jewish foreign children who were hidden in Jesuit buildings. "The Times" correspondent on the French frontier says that ■ when the priests refused to surrender the children Vichy seemed disposed to let the matter drop, but the German authorities insisted that the children be handed over. The priests were arrested, but in the meantime they had removed the children to secret hiding places, where they remain in trustworthy hands. ___-——.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1942, Page 6
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101GAOLING OF PRIESTS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1942, Page 6
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