OPERA MOUSE BLOWN UP.
EXPLOSION IN WIESBADEN.
BUILDING EMPTY AT TIME.
TOTAL DESTRUCTION.
Bj Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 7.30 p.m.) A. md N.Z. LONDON, Maroh 19. After the audience and staff had left the Royal Opera House, Wiesbaden, a terrific explosion occurred. Simultaneously gigantic flames darted from all the windows, and in a few minutes the interior was a mass of roaring fire. The building was destroyed. It was supported by the ex-Kaiser's private fortune. The damage is estimated at milliards of marks.
Wiesbaden is in the French zone of occupation on the Rhine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18354, 21 March 1923, Page 9
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