HELIGOLAND TO BE BLOWN UP
LONDOX, June 1 7. The German island of Heligoland which is honeycoinbed with many miles of fortifications rimmed with reinforeed eoncrete, will be completely blown up within three months, says the Associated Press eorrespondent at Cuxhaven in quoting a Royal Navy otficer who said that nothing but a pile of rocks would remain. The officer added that several hundred tons of high explosives would be used, probably in oue great blast. The island would not completely disappear because it was situated jn eomparatively shallow water, but tlie remnants would never again be fit for human habitation. "The destruetion ,f Fleiigokand will hit the Germans where it hurts most. 1 ' The oflicer disclosed that there was strong opposition to blowing uj) the island from the British ornithologists who feared the damaging effect on migratory birds wiio use the island as a starting point for the vear's southward flights. "I assure them that when we are finished it will be a most wonderful bird sanctuary — nothing but a pile of rocks," he said.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 June 1946, Page 5
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