Demolition Explosion Wrecks Roofs In Berlin
Received Friday, 10 a.m. BERLIN, Nov. 3. , Windows and doors were blown out and roofs wrecked over a 4000-yard radius in the middle of the British secior of Berlin today when an Army demolition explosion went wrong. o Royal Engineers were blowing up a concrete structure which was used as an emergency Army telephone exchange during the war. They used one and a half .tons of high explosives. One of the engineers commented: "The i'dea was that the blast would all go inward, but most of it went outward and we seem to have Wrecked a good siice of Berlin." The blast severely damaged buildings on the Hohenr zollerndamm, where many British married families live. 1
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 November 1949, Page 4
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