THE EIFFEL TOWER
DEMOLITION ORDERED DECLARED UNSAFE (Rec. January 11, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, January 11. The Eiffel Tower, the world’s highest structure, and the scene during its thirty-nine years’ existence of 111 suicides, is doomed, the Ministry .of the Interior having announced that it must be demolished, to prevent its falling, despite the expenditure of £BOO annually on its upkeep in painting. Corrosion is increasing steadily, and the tower would have' fallen long ago had not workmen kept continuously renewing the bolts. The structure has already passed the estimated life-span given by its constructor by nineteen years. January 11, 8.55 p.m.) London, January 11. A British United Press message from Paris states that the Ministry of the Interior says the Eiffel Tower must be pulled down within a few years or it will fall down, and demolish part of the richest quarter of the city.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 88, 12 January 1928, Page 9
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