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NIGHT CLUB FIRE HORROR Over 100 Bodies Believed Buried In Ruins

PANIC ADDED TO

DEATH-TOLL

Berlin, Feb. 9..

Rescue workers believe that more than 100 bodies are buried in the smoking ruins of a big Ger- man dance hall in the British Zone, as a result of a fire Saturday night. At least four British soldiers are known to have lost their lives. More than 15 hours after the fire had been brought under control, rescue workers and British troops were removing bodies of victims. Many were charred beyond recognition. Most of "them were jammed in the main front entrance - to the building, where panic-striken guests had fought to escape the racing flames, and added to the death roll.-

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A KISS IS LIKE

A LAWSUIT

Newcastle, Feb. 10. "Whether a particular young wenien will allow a particular young man to kiss her is like a lawsuit-it cannot be de- termined until it has been tried." remarked Mr. Justice Stable during a case at New- castle Azrizes today.

And he added, "If young men never tried to kiss young women, I don't know where we should be now.”.

blamed overheated atoves. A German civilian familiar with the building said a short circuit was to blame because the the ceiling and Bghts were extin- quished immediately.

Seme rescue workers thought |ight in the still-smoking de-flames first appeared in the death toll would reach 150. bris. At least 30 other persons, most of them Germans, were surt to hospital with severe burns.

Ernst Wahnee, German survivor who was. familiar with the layout of the building, hald he saved himself by és Herping through basement

window.

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At least three British Bol diers were among the dead, the British army said. They were among the 30 severely burned who were hospitalised. It said about 50 British soldiers were among the 1,000 persons at the ball, whith was Kiven by the Spandau Football Club. Those who escaped in ball cos. tomes ran into one of the bit- terest cold waves of the winter. ley winds fanning broken windows spread the fames faster. This was Ber totalin's worst disaster since the

the war.-Associated Press,

The British News Service in Germany tonight estimated the total deathroll at 70 persons.

The New Service added that most people perished in the cinak-rooms when seeking their belongings. 'Eyewitnesses were reported to have acen a

several wemen literally crushed He said the Bght went out death. Many people who immediately after the first nut bother about their coats flame appeared on the ceiling, got out and were seen walking throwing the packed dancers in-home in fancy dress through to screaming confusion.

frozen strecis,

According to the British News Service there were about 50 Britons present in a of 700. The burnt-out build ng was the favourite amuse- ment centre for young British Soldiers in the Spandau area.-- Reuter.

Women's Screams "Everyone was having a good time," he said, "when suddenly of flame there was a flash

long the ceiling. Within five minutes flames were shooting all over the room. Women were screaming and hundreds of guests were.scrambling reach the exit,"

to

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Driver's Story

Berlin, Feb. 9. A British got

driver, Harry Roberts, who was in the club, #s "mad described the scene

flames burst panic" when trough the ceiling-

Scores of these never through the door. Flames en- veloped the structure and then spread to destroy an adjoining two-storey dwelling.

Just outside the exit rescue

workers Sunday set up a long table where they placed bits of charred clothing and shoes to be inspected by relatives ! victims.

of

The dance hall, fecated in the Spandau district and known as the "Karlslust," was frequent- ed by British trops as well as German civilians. Associated Prisa.

Scores more were injured in the blaze. which, according to an eyewitness only took 16 minutes to destroy the whole building.

"1. was dancing when I saw

through

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19 Who Think They Got Away With Murder

London, Feb. 10. At liberty in this coun- try today are nineteen people who think they have got away with mur- der.

But most of them are known to Scotland Yard, and only a serap of evidence stands be- tween their freedom and ar rest.

Yard, men never forget. They believe that the perfect murder of today may be solved tomor- row, and, to remind them of all the facts, there is the j Yard's book of unsolved crimes, j- I is kept in a library, the membership of which is re- stricted

to Chief Inspectors and a few detectives.

Each dossier, containing all the known facts about each of the nineteen murderers still at erty. is borrowed muny times a week for examination.

A pew thought,

or a new ciuc, "may cause the whole jigsaw of the crime to fall into place.

"Truly Democratic Elections"

(By David Brown)

Moscow, Feb. 9,

them," he said. "The flames The Soviet Union's election machinery went into

spread across

action at six o'clock this morning with voters going to the polls in seven republics, mostly through snow and ice.

the roof as thrown though someone had benzine on it,"

for He said everyone raced

A table blocking, a the exits.

The polls close at midnight. The voting booths were in doorway caused a terrific jam. The remaining elections will be what was formerly the kinder- He said he jumped on the table held next Friday and Sunday. garten; of the electric plant and literally dived out of the With loud speakers blaring which had nominated Stalin.as

of the and door over the heads

festivities arranged for the "district's candidate, mob.

later in the day voters made Reginald Dunnae, British the most of this national ex- ambulance driver, said that crelse of the franchise of which

was in flames.

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A huge bronze statue More than 50 people, includ- when he arrived at the club, it the keynote was sounded by Stalin on a red-velvet-covered ing three British sollers were

"I saw British soldiers stand-Generalissimo Stalin himself, pedestal was encircled firi killed as the result of a which swept through a Spang inside the building, throw-ho, according 16 Pravda be fluorescent light tubes with

ing Germans through windows fore the first supreme Soviet two potted geraniums. day dance all last night as

who were either too dazed or elections, told voters: "The The statue showed Stalin masked 600 revellers-many

little and in fancydress-were watch, injured to flee themselves," he forthcoming elections are not with his arm round a

really elections, comrades. This girl' who had just presented a by trick stated. Ing an exhibition

The German police presid- is really a national holiday for bouquet of flowers. Opposite cyclists.

Another fluorescented our peasants as ent. Paul Markgraf, said after all workers for

for the an inspection

Stalin. The voters! of the burned, and

intelligentsia. plaque of ice-covered ruins, that he was Never before have there been presented their passports at saw such truly free, such truly de-five desks alphabetically arrang- horrified." He said he "stzeks of burned bodies" clug- | mocratic elections in the world!' ed and received their ballot

papers." sing doorways where they had Never! died while attempting to es-

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the Leningrad express, just in,

•At the seventh precinct to cast their votes. They were headquarters for the brought to the polls in one of Stalin district-today, voting Moscow's open air taxis. Other proceeding efficiently in cara had been busy all morning 30 degrees...

bringing in the halt and crippl- When I visited it this morn-ed and the simply dilatory. ing 60 per cent of the precinct's

1 year 6.00 Everywhere else in the Soviet

Export Trade & Bhipper 2,000 voters had already cast Union a major effort was

Exporter's Digest United Press staff correspon- their printed ballet papers. devoted to bringing. In every dent Robert Haeger said he, Feople were pouring in 'through possible vote. The officials will saw German workers fill six heavy mist blanketing the have a tough time beating last caskets with bodies or parts of city, picking their way hur year's 99.7 per cent of all pos- bodies and take them away on riedly and gingerly along the able votes, but the effort was a truck. He said they were in now-glazed pavements.

unflagging-Reuter, the process of filling 12 more coffins.

The fire starter when the pipes of three large iron stovea became over-heated and set fire

There 1728 a continuous- to the wooden ceiling. As the

stream of weeping relatives first sparks came down among

and friends at Spandau Hos-voting the audience seated, at tables, there was a rush total seeking missing kinfolk. wards the cloakroom doors and exit.

A few seconds later a mass one of flames burst through end of the hall, fanned by a bitter wind which blew, right' along the building. The rush became a stampede with women ud girls screaming, and tables and chairs were overturned in to squeeze wild struggle through the doorways.

Some of those first out tried to return fur "overcoats and, handbags and the vestibule be came a tightly-wedged 'mass of hysterical and panic-stricken

kople.

Gruesome Sight British Army medical officers the burned said they found Ladies of six British soldiers in dhe ruins.

"The bodies were burned so badly the men just filled. the coffins with whatever parts they "I could find," Hacger said, counted enough parts of bodies. to fill more than all the 18 black wooden boxes."

Amazing Stories Many collapsed from shock An official British Army and, were trumpled underfoot spokesman said after an in- and auffocated to death before spection of the burned club: "I flames engulfed the whole hall. saw bodies lying all over the Some tried vainly to escape place. It WEB agruesome through the windows only to alght, They didn't resemble And iron bars on the outside. ] human beings. They werl Some fortunate ones found a twisted, distorted, shapeless few unbarred, windows or gat hulks." cut through the back door be- The British military hospital hind the kitchen.

spokesman estimated the total Survivors today told amazing hot dead would be "60 or more.” stories of Germans who reached Dr. Lebbin said 90 persons safety and then tried to fight had been treated at Spandau their way back for forgotten Hospital for burns while others Jursessions of a. haudsman were taken to doctora" offices isbouring at a window to push and other Berlin hospitals. Om- big drum through and an caly sald the cause of the fire, other musician who blocked the wna, the overheated furnace. doorway with a brass cello, The fire began at about 11 which he was trying to take outp.m.-United Press. with him.

Berlin, Feb.. 10!

A 19-year-old British soldier Stripped Naked attending the ball brought his the girl partner safely from *blazing hall and then returned in a vain effort to rescue her companion. He is now mis Ing

British troops with army, fire- fighting appliances and ambu lances helped the German fra services to rescue many injured peuple from the debris,

Crushed To Death Firemen and police were scarching for the remains to

A mass of bodies was piled before the entrance as in the Coconnut Grove fire in Boston four winters ago where 492 perished, (see

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