MYSTERY FIRE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 8

MYSTERY FIRE

BIG BERLIN STATION

BLAZE AFTER EXPLOSION

LONDON, December 30.

A large fire broke out in the Arv^ halter station, in Berlin, early thi,j morning. No official reason for the fir % has yet been published, but the BerJ lin correspondent of a Stockholm newa paper says that it apparently started i in the left luggage office, where ther*d was a violent explosion at 6.45 a.m. Th<|| correspondent, who watched the flame*! from a window in the Potedammeii Plaz, saw clouds of smoke rising frorc* the western end of the station, where all the windows and roofs were blows out. Many fire brigades were callecl and the fire was not brought unde»control for several hours./ ■;■•= Rumours about the cause of the fir* spread through the city, and were nof, checked by the official German newt I agency statement that the fire sprearj to other of the station offices and thffl tickets would have to be issued 'M another building for the time beuofl All traffic to and from the station v^ stopped. s-^|