VILLA DAMAGED
U.S. AMBASSADOR
BOMBS FROM GERMAN PLANE
A NARROW ESCAPE
(Received September 4, 2 p.m.)
1 NEW YORK, September 3. | The Warsaw correspondent of the j American United Press says that i the United States Ambassador (Mr. : Biddle) and his wife and daughter ' had a narrow escape when a German plane bombed Mr. Biddlc's suburban villa. The United States Embassy said it appeared to have been a deliberate attack, since the bombs were released during a low power dive. The Biddies were not injured. The villa was partially unroofed, windows were shattered, and the ad joining villa destroyed. j The Ambassador's cabled report to Mr. Roosevelt confirms the message. A bomb fragment shattered a wall midway between Mrs. Biddle and her daughter. Another bomb landed directly on the front of the villa but failed to explode. ' ■ • The Biddies fled to Warsaw so hastily that they were forced to don part of their' clothing in their motor-car. Th^y passed the night at the Embassy since their city home is in the danger zone.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1939, Page 10
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