FIRE IN A CONVENT.
HOW CHILDREN WERE SAVED. By felegmpb.—Vtcw As*ocMU>n.-r-Copyiiehi. London, February 11. In a fire at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Newcastle-on-Tyne, the nuns knotted sheets together and lowered 50 children safely to th* ground, and then themselves slipped down.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13672, 13 February 1908, Page 5
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44FIRE IN A CONVENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13672, 13 February 1908, Page 5
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