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COMMITTED BV GERMANS IN ITALY ' I GUNS FIRED INTO CONVENT. ELEVEN NUNS KILLED & EIGHT INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 9. ' A brutal German attack on a convent in Italy in which 11 nuns were killed and eight others injured is reported by the British United Press correspondent with the Fifth Army The nuns of Faicchio, a little town on the Fifth Army’s front, gave young Italian girls sanctuary in the convent from the Germans, who later tried to enter, but the doors were held securely. The Germans did not interfere again till the day of their departure, when a tank fired four shots into the convent, wrecking the chapel. Troops of the Fifth Army who occupied the town found dead and injured nuns among the rubble of the wrecked chapel. Apparently they had been kneeling in prayer when the tank fired the shots.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1943, Page 3
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