HEARTENING SIGHT
Unloading At Cherbourg (Received August 24, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. The Cherbourg docks today are a heartening sight with unloading going on day and night, states the “Daily Telegraph's” correspondent in Normandy. Thousands of coloured troops are working unceasingly. Preparations for the reconstruction were begun in November, 1943, when .one of the leading engineers in the United States was handed large-scale plans and told to subject the docks on paper to the systematic destruction to be expected when the Germans saw that evacuation was inevitable. His anticipations were uncanny iu their accuracy. He was able when the time came to tackle the task of reconstruction without delay. It was even found that he had in. many cases forecast the positions of ships that had been deliberately sunk.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 282, 25 August 1944, Page 5
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