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Show GREAT CHANGES IN BIG GERMAN CITIES AMSTERDAM, March 16 (Mail.) War has produced some remarkable' chlagee in the population and relative Importance ot big German cities. The five principal centers of the munition industries have suddenly mounted to i places among the nine largest cities In Germany. Before the war Munich was the third largest city in Germany, ranking Immediately after Berlin and Hamburg Munich has now dropped into seventh place, and Bochum. in Westphalian Prussia, has risen to third place Bochum is the -eat of great coal, iron and steel industries. In 1900 it, had a scant 65 000 Inhabitants. Now it boasts of more than 764,000. Dresden and Breslau. which were formerly the fourth and fifth cities in Germany, have fallen well behind 1 Dortmund and Essen. |