The Archive · 1939

Railway Bridge Blown

Brussels, Sept. 14.

4 terrible explosion last night shook the village of Schengen, on the southernmost tip of Luxeribourg, when the Germans blew up a railway line across the border near by. Frayments of metal rained on Luxembourg lercitory, but no one was hurt, The railway was the me line betweer Trier, reputed to be the oldest town in the German empire, and the French fortified town of Metz, 48 miles away, in Alsace-Lorraine, The newspaper "Lo Pouple" claims to have learned from reliable sources, that the civil population of Trier is being evacuated. This section of the front hax ltherto been curiously bishop, Trier contains: more imports The seat o€ 1 Roman Cathoti

one Roman. remains. than another place in northern Europe, notably the Dieturesque ruins of the imperial Palace; the Porta, Nigra, or. Noma, fate, part of the ancient defences of the town: the bastien oF palace. Constantine, "now an "evangelical church; baths, and an amphitheatre ta. the 3rd and th centuries I was frequent the residence of the Roman

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