SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS
DELIBERATE AND ACCIDENTAL LARGE DEATH ROLE IN OSLO (Rec) 8 a.m.) OSLO, August 19. The dea,th roll in an explosion in the ammunition dock area numbers 120, and hundreds more were seriously injured. The majority of the dead are German prisoners of war who were loading German ammunition on a Dutch barge for jettisoning in an outer fiord. The explosion started oh one of the lorries taking the ammunition to the quayside. Carelessness by the prisoners is believed to have caused the explosion. A Copenhagen message says: The crew of 27 Germans was killed when the German steamer Burnlef sank on Tuesday off Zeeland after ammunition aboard, which was being carried out to sea to be jettisoned, exploded. ■■ • The explosion is believed to be due accident. !■
Another Copenhagen release reports: The offices of Denmark’s only German language newspaper, ‘ Nortsclilewigsche Zeitung,’ at Aabenraa, were blown up by seven bombs which were placed'among the machinery and plant, which were totally destroyed. Some Danes asserted the newspaper had taken an editorial position opposed to the interests olf Denmark and the Allies.
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Evening Star, Issue 25566, 20 August 1945, Page 5
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181SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS Evening Star, Issue 25566, 20 August 1945, Page 5
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