STORMING A MONASTERY.
MONKS RETREAT TO ROOFS. WATER TURNED ON THEM FROM FIRE HOSE. By, Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright LONDON, Aug. 28. The police and military were engaged for rnaDy hours in carrying by force a monastery barricaded during the process of expulsion of the Redemptionist monks at La Rochelle. "When the barricades were captured the monks retreated to the roofs, but quickly succumbed to streams of water from a fire hose.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 982, 31 August 1903, Page 4
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