FIRE IN A CONVENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 31 January 1912, Page 5

FIRE IN A CONVENT.

NUNS BARRICADE THE DOORS

INMATES RESCUED WITH

DIFFICULTY

«V CiBLE—PSESB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. PARIS, Jan. 30. A fire broke out in the Convent of St. Clair at Lapuy.

In order to keep the rule forbidding men to enter, the nuns barricaded the burning building against the firemen and police.

Seven aged nuns were found unconscious when the police battered down the doors. The nuns were rescued with flifficulty. ;