MAY BE BLOWN UP

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 44, 20 August 1941, Page 8

MAY BE BLOWN UP

DNIEPROSTROY DAM

SACRIFICE TO DEFENCE

<Rec. noon.) LONDON, August 20. The Russians may flood a vast area 'of the south-western Ukraine by blasting the great Dnieprostroy dam on the Dnieper River if the battle goes against them, says the Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." The ' destruction of the dam would send the pent-up waters of the Dnieper through the plains west of the Dnieper Bend, creating a vast and unnavigable flood. : The Russians claim that the Dnieprostroy dam is the greatest hydro-electric Undertaking in the world.' The dam, which has a capacity of 291,800,000,000 gallons, serves power stations which supply -the industrial area of Dnepropetrovsk. If is believed that Marshal Budenny would not hesitate, if it became necessary, to destroy at one blow the whole Dnepropetrovsk industrial district, and sweep away his enemies, by blasting the dam.