RESULT OF BIG BLAST ON HELIGOLAND
Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, April 19. A naval party which vvent asiiore :n Heiigoiaad today, a day earliei- thau lirst intended, beiieved that buned ua exploded bombs the R.A.P. droppea during wartiine raids, must have beea set off in the exido^ion yesterday. Th ih is the oniy expianation for the big I craters. There were 110 mines sown. I The party reported that the U-boai j pens were a mass of rubble. A lan-1 slide flattened the southern tip of tlu- 1 isiand. The eight-mile honeycomb oi | tunnels and storerjoonis in ihe rock j S feet below the ground, had apparentJy { become one huge crater. / Seismographs in Paris, Gettingen an l .Zurich and the Kew Observatory, 111 ! London, recorded the explosion faintly. ! A series of niinor explosions at lialf minute intervals drove o(T seabirds which otherwise niight liave beiui killed It is hoped that the isiand will become a bird sanctuarv and an em-ergeucy haven for fishiiig- vessels.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 April 1947, Page 2
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