BERLIN RADIO OFF AIR: FRENCH DEMOLISH TOWERS
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11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 16. The Russian-controlled radio in Berlin went off the air when the station’s two large antennae towers in the French sector of the city were blown up by French engineers today.
Station officials refused to comment on the demolition. Brigadier-General Jean Ganeval, the French commandant of "Berlin, said that the two towers 250 ft. and 400 ft. high were demolished because they were a "very great danger” to airlift planes coming in by radar. “I could no longer responsibility for possible accidents,” he said. “Consequently, I executed today the decision taken some time ago to demolish the towers- The demolition took place without incident.” General Ganeval said the director of the Berlin radio was informed on November 26 that action would be taken today. Tine radio authorities thus were given ample opportunity to lake away their installations and erect them in another place.
Reuter says that Russian authorities seized control of the station less than a week after Germany’s capitulation. Six months ago the British military authorities served the Russians with notice to quit, but they refused,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 5
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