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Show $75,000 l'lKE is LAID TO ALIENS i Boston, Mnss., Dec. 23. The $75-000 $75-000 fire that threatened tho Commonwealth Com-monwealth piers ,and destroyed two munition plants is under Investigation Investiga-tion today. Officials oxpressed belief be-lief this afternoon that an alien enemy ene-my started tho firo In an effort to destroy not only the munition plants, but tho naval training Btatlon on tho I piers. Within flvo minutes utter the fire started in tho part of tho Crucible 'Steel Company of America, where , shells were manufactured, tho flames had spread throughout a large part I of tho Interior of the five story building. build-ing. Tho flro destroyed that plant and tho plant of tho Doston Scale Machine Company and spread to other oth-er structures, Including tho large building occupied by ;W. H. Claflln & Co., wholesale drug merchants. Only heroic work saved tho city from a conflagration that would havo destroyed millions of dollars worth of property. Two watchmen are missing and aro believed to have perished, o |