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Show FIRE DESTROYS AIRPLMWORKS Enormous Loss When Vast Quantities of Materials and Forty Planes Are Burned. GENEVA, April 16 Enormous loss! was caused by the fire which broke out Saturday in the Zeppelin and airplane works at Mansel, near Friedrichshafen, and destroyed the plant, according to reliable reports from Roschach, on, Lake Constance. Vast quantities of raw materials were burned and it is reported at Constance that two large Zeppelins and forty airplanes also wer destroyed. As the military authorities are presenting pre-senting any one from approaching the scene of the Are. the number of killed i und injured cannot be learned at prea-tent. prea-tent. The fire broke out on Saturday and ! burned all clay Sunday, nccording to i two Swiss travelers who were In Friedrichshafen on Sunday There ! were frequent explosions, apparently I due to the bursting of gasoline and hydrogen cylinders. There was a panic in the town where several houses were set on Are and others damaged. nn |