FIRE IN CONVENT
MOTHER SUPERIOR BURNED TO I ,' . ' DEATH. (United PreßS Association. —By Electrio Telegraph .—Copy right.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 9. Early in the morning a fire broke out in the convent at Hayling Island,- in which there were sixty of London’s slum children. The nuns showed wonderful bravery and rescued the lot unscathed. The Mother Superior (Mother Celestine) in a last look round was trapped on the top floor and burned to death.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1929, Page 5
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79FIRE IN CONVENT Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1929, Page 5
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