FLOODWATERS IN AUSTRIA
Dykes Saved By U.S. And Soviet Troops (Rec 11 p.m.) LONDON, Ju 1 -’ - 13. United States airmen and Soviet troops worked shoulder to shoulder today fighting floods near Tulin, an American airbase outside Vienna in the Soviet Zone. Their co-operation was “exemplary” an Austrian report stated. A United States officer at the base said tonight that all men who could be spared were ordered to dykes along the road nearby, which was threatened by the rising waters of the Danube. When they got there they found themselves working side by side with a company of Russian engineer troops. “They competed with one another to see who did the best,” the American officer said. The dykes held and four villages and 2000 acres of rich farmland with ripe crops were saved from the floodwaters.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27402, 15 July 1954, Page 11
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