ARREST OF PRIESTS.
VATICAN SEEKS EXPLANATION. LONDON, November 22. The Rome correspondent of “The Times’’ says that the recent disorders in Bohemia have led to a- renewal of attacks • against Catholics, whom the Nazis are indiscriminately persecuting. “They have arrested two priests and 40 laymen and have charged them with communicating with Catholics in countries hostile to Germany in order- -to foment disorders in Czechoslovakia. The Vatican is seeking an explanation, in default of which it will protest to Berlin.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 37, 23 November 1939, Page 5
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