UNDERGROUND CITY
BELOW WRECKAGE OF MAYEN
Hec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, March 22. The Americans found what amounted to an underground city under the wreckage of the town of Mayen, which was overrun _in General Patton's drive to the Rhine, says the Associated Press correspondent. Civil affairs were administered from a town hall carved from the rock below a Twelfth Century castle. A subterranean passage, 1200 feet long, with wide galleries, housed the municipal staff, besides police and fire departments and a large section of the p -pulation. The Third Army found 3500 p :rsons taking refuse there.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1945, Page 5
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