British Army Bungles Berlin Demolition

Grey River Argus, 5 November 1949, Page 5

British Army Bungles Berlin Demolition

BERLIN, Nov. 3 Windows and doors were blown out and roofs wrecked over a 4000yard radius in the middle of the British sector of Berlin to-day when an army demolition explosion went wrong. Royal engineers were blowing up a concrete structure which was used as an emergency army telephone exchange during the war. They used one and a half tons of high explosive. One of the engineers commented that the "idea was that the blast would all go inward, but most of it went outward and we seem to have wrecked a good slice of Berlin." ' The blast severely damaged buildings on Hohen Zollerndamm, where many British married families live.