NIGHT OF EXPLOSIONS
Reeeived Sunday, S.40 p.m. BERLIN, May 5. Nuremberg was rocked by a series of explosions last night as a vast arnmunition dump blew up 10 miles from the city. Huge lires lit the sky for j miles. The blast blew out the windows of the Nuremberg eourthouse. The ex- [ plosions eontinued for over two hours. The fire died down after midnight. Villagers over a wide area were foreed to shelter from shrapnel, lumps of stone and burning limbs of trees. Sabotage is officiallj^ denied. It is stated that demolition work on a small arms dump got out of eontrol and spread to heavier explosives.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1946, Page 5
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107NIGHT OF EXPLOSIONS Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1946, Page 5
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