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Show Destruction Of City Of Rheims Bordeaux, Sept. 20. Tho minister of the Interior, Louis J. Malvy, an nounced todny that tho famous cathedral cath-edral of Rhelms has been destroyed and all other historic hnd public buildings either laid in ruins or seriously seri-ously damaged during tho bombardment bombard-ment of RhclniB by tho German artillery. ar-tillery. Coupled with this announcement was a statement that tho government hns decided to address to all tho (lowers (low-ers a note of Indignation protest ' against this act ot odious vandalism. Tho structures which tho miulstor said had been destroyed or ruined included, in-cluded, In addition to tho cathedr.il, tho Twelfth Century church of St. Jaciiues, tho 15th century archbishop's archbish-op's palaco and the city hall, dating from tho 17th century. M. Malvy said that official report? rovealed that tho cathedral vua In flames today, tho burning having bet gun yesterday as a result of tho -;rie- 1 'leBS5b6mb8rdniehtf ,- i ..c U'Vaa1 otllclally stated that the destruction' de-struction' ot theso historic buildings was accepted as indicating that tho Germans considered their situation desperate. |