A CONVENT ON FIRE.
DEATH RATHER THAN DISLOYALTY. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, January 29. Fire broke nut in the Convent of St. Chin-, at Le I'uy. In order U) keep the rule forbidding men to enter, the nuns barricaded ihe burning building against (he firemen and police. Seven aged nuns were found unconscious when the police finally battered ihe door in and rescued them with difiicultv.
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Evening Star, Issue 14787, 31 January 1912, Page 6
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67A CONVENT ON FIRE. Evening Star, Issue 14787, 31 January 1912, Page 6
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