TOWN UNDERGROUND
BENEATH WRECKAGE OF MAYEN LONDON, Mar. 22. The Americans found what amounted tfi’ an underground city under the wreckage of the town of Mayen, says the Associated Press correspondent. Civil affairs were administered from a town hall carved in the rock below a twelfth century castle. A subterranean passage 1200 ft long, with wide galleries, housed the municipal staff, besides the police and fire departments and a large section of the population. The Third Army found 3500 persons in refuge there. Another Mayen cave sheltered 2000 During air raids 12,000 lived underground.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25802, 24 March 1945, Page 7
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94TOWN UNDERGROUND Otago Daily Times, Issue 25802, 24 March 1945, Page 7
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