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P J Kern, Civil Service Comm pres, silent on strike issue when questioned by Council com
losses heavy on both sides
Sec Knox says long campaign will aid Brit and U S
USSR raids on Rumanian Black Sea ports
LONDON, Thursday, June 26 -- Twice yesterday Royal Air Force bomber squadrons made daylight sweeps into German - occupied France, accompanied by their "umbrellas" of fighter planes. They penetrated as far as the railway yards at Hazebrouck, where bombs were rained on freight yards and two railroad bridges were reported hit.
1941Yves Beauchemin, Canadian author and academic[†]
Yves Beauchemin is a Québécois novelist.
1941World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.[†]
The bombing of Kassa took place on 26 June 1941, when still unidentified aircraft conducted an airstrike on the city of Kassa, then part of Hungary, today Košice in Slovakia. This attack became the pretext for the government of Hungary to declare war on the Soviet Union the next day, 27 June.