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Show VAST HUN PROPERTY LOST IN EXPLOSION COBLKXZ, Saturday, Sept. G. (P.v the Associated Press.) Property valued at approximately 10,0ti0,iioa marks, suld recently re-cently by the Americans to the Germans, Ger-mans, was destroyed today by a st-ries of explosions in ammunition dumps near Xeuwied. Among the materials destroyed was ammunition worth iLOen.tmn marks, which was sold Friday to a German company com-pany for commercial purposes. Fire followed the first explosion and destroyed about fifty buildings scat tered about a forty-acre traot . us'd for yea rs by the Germans and then by the A mer-ieans mer-ieans for storing shells. Thousands of large shells and millions of rounds of sm;iil ! arm ammunition which were a kunlonod '. by the German army were explode 1, but : there were no American casual I ies. Six German girls employed in a dump were re mi e red unconscious by inn first explosion. They were rescued by A nieri-can nieri-can .soldiers. The work of br-aliin tin the shells was being done by Germans under American supervision. The cause of the explosion is unknown. |