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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1940
Page
3
London dispatch reports Marshal Edward Smigly Rydz, former Polish army head, escaped internment in Romania on Friday morning. The message from Bucharest to Havas News Agency quoted by Reuters says the escape occurred in Romania.
London dispatch says British forces destroyed 144 Italian warplanes over the past 12 days, with British losses totaling 19 planes in the same period. Five British pilots were saved after the engagements.
Dublin reports an Elre bombing by unidentified planes damaged property in Kingstown and Car Wekmacross in Monaghan. Each town saw one injury as the raids occurred 30 minutes apart, marking a rare repeat of such incidents since a prior bombing months earlier.
Berlin reports heavy incendiaries and explosives strike British coast ports and midlands while London and Liverpool suffer raids. Berlin says British attacks on Berlin hit cathedral, art museums, Potsdam, with one big time bomb exploding near Unter den Linden. Casualties listed include six dead in Bern and three in Potsdam amid widespread destruction.
British church leaders from the Church of England and Catholic Church plus the Free Church Federal Council issued a joint letter to the Times outlining five of Pope Pius XI's proposed peace measures and five additional ideas. They urged that peace in Europe hinges on nations adopting Christian principles in policy and social life, stressing universal brotherhood and a shared human family under God.
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