Show P PALACE l GE IN BERliN DAMAGED BY FIRE BERLIN April 15 The JP-The famous am Bluecher palace on which has been purchased by the American government go for an embassy embassy em em- bassy building badly darn dam aged by fire before dawn today The wh whole le right wing of the three three- I story building was ablaze before the arrival of ot firemen who despairing of saving the palace concentrated their efforts on preventing pre spread of the blaze to nearby buildings Additional Additional Addi Addi- alarms emptied other firehouses fire fire- houses and almost every piece of ot ap ap apparatus In the city was as called out Origin of the fire ire was not det deter deter- r. r mined There were no known casualties casualties cas cas- but the offices of the United States commercial the only part of the embassy y which ha had l been moved to the building were de de- de- de Title to the building was still sUllin In Its former owners owner's hands so the United States government which Is reputed to have paid for It presumably presume ably escaped serious loss The palace was built by the Prussian government as a gift gUt to General Bluecher who turned the tide of battle at Waterloo I |