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Show SPANISH NUNS HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE NEW TOFK, April 6 Six Spanish nuns A ho said they were driven from a com ent near Vera Cruz by Carranza troops who besieged tre convent six days and threatened their lvea reacted t-ew Tork today aboard the Spanish b earner Manuel Calvo from Vera Cruj and Havana The nuns who were In charge of Motl er Superior Slmona. "Selto sa d that for eev enten 5 ears the had conducted a hoe p ta n connection with the r con ent at Orizaba When a Carranza order was Is sued tn February expel ng a 1 priests and nuns from the state of vera Cruz thev decided to remain to nurse twenty pa tlen n the hosplta They appealed In va n for protectlo they sa 1 to Go ernor Agu ar of era Cruz whom they had ared for when he had fe er two years ag A mob of drunken soldiers surrounded the con ent and hospital on March 1 and threatened our Ives, Mother "Slmona said Thy bee eged 0 six days b our fa hfu servants prote ted us "We escaped at n gh by p tttng as de our n ns c oth g and wear ng the common garb of I x an womn Tie went to Vera Cruz aed the e two days and then boarded he essel T e pa w go to Spa n |