FLOOD IN HOLLAND
URGENT REPARATION WORK
LONDON, May 24. The Wieringerwaard area of northern Holland, flooded by the Germans as a panic defence measure against possible Allied amphibious operations across the Zuyder Zee, is now 15 feet under water, says the "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at Den Helder.
The flood waters, pouring through gaps blasted in the eastern sea wall, gouged a hole 100 feet deep. It is calculated that it will take at least three months to re-seal the dike and another six months will be required to pump the area dry, assuming that sufficient fuel is forthcoming. Meanwhile British Civil Affairs officers, co-operating with the Dutch, have obtained enough oil for small craft to begin the salvage of machinery from the flooded farms. This rich agricultural area, which normally feeds a great part of Holland, urgently needs coal and oil fuel for pumping and for working the flour mills. The first relief trains have already arrived.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 7
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