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Show SAYS SPIES CAUSED ARCHANGEL DISASTER More Than 300 Killed and as Many-More Many-More Injured, According to Report of Police Authorities. XEW YORK, Dec. 5. Seven ships loaded with munitions and war supplies were destroyed by the explosion in the harbor of Archangel the first week in November, and the fire resulting burned betweeu twelve and fifteen blocks of warehouse property, according to Americans Ameri-cans recently in" Russia, who arrived here today on the steamship Bergens-fjord Bergens-fjord from Norwegian ports. One of the passengers, who would not permit his name to be used, as he is going back to Russia, said he was in Archangel the day after the explosion. He added that reports indicated that spies working among the crew-s handling the cargo were responsible for the explosion. ex-plosion. Reports as to the loss of life varied, he added. Jt was given out by the police authorities that more than 300 were kiiled and as many injured. The same passenger asserted that he had been informed on good authority that in a period of seven weeks, beginning begin-ning with October, five German submarines, subma-rines, operating in the Arctic ocean, at distances ranging from 100 to 150 miles from Archangel, had sunk forty-two ships, nearly half of which were Norwegian, Nor-wegian, carrying caro into or returning return-ing in ballast from Archangel. |