EXPLOSIONS IN GERMANIC

Evening Star, Issue 16409, 27 April 1917, Page 6

EXPLOSIONS IN GERMANIC

( w HY DRESDEN WAS ISOLATED. The Times s’ Rotterdam correspondent, speaking with a traveller fresh from Germany was told; “It may interest you to iCiiiii -that lor some x'casou I was not permitted to go to Dresden. I had a friend there whom I wanted muon to meet, but I could not get permission, and mv friend had to come to meet me elsewhere.” I pointed out (says ‘The Times's’ correspondent) that there had been a report in tlolland ot a groat explosion At Dresden Put my mtormant said that he had heard nothing ot it. All he knew was that he could not go .here, Regarding explosions my informant said ; 1S ' if TT paperß are , so . strictly censored that about i°t “f" explos,on y° tl kn<w nothing about it, unless you come across evidence of l. lor instance, on the Kaiser’s birthday ■•dolf Ua \]i 6/, V n ' vas ,7 a l kill g ou the Prinz- {■ oit Alice at, Dusseldort, near .the Pschorr brauerei, at 11 a,m„ when I hoard n hcavv explosion. Everywhere too windows w e i smashed, and so A was all over the place It was over m a few seconds, but I knew where “ncsJ'T , R!1 “Plosion some- ' ~ cxt d-iy people from the place where the expiation occurred—namely P the ammunition works about two hours from Cologne—arrived at Du-stolorf YM) ? 11-al 40 people W beo.ltmSYll iSI number injured. It was a verv bH exmfo! Mon > and the whole place was° ni wi wrecked, but next day the IFisso dorf ment that 40 persons wero kdled wS wt not stale if this is correct 1 can ‘ whole economic hTe of The cmmtoy^The 0 it was overfull. Half of every traiT iserved for (he military.” 7 “ u re ‘