Explosion That Went Wrong
BERLIN, Nov. 3.—Windows and doors were blown out and roofs wrecked over a radius of 4000 yards in the middle of the British sector of Berlin today 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-explo-sives.
One of the engineers commented: “The idea was that the blast would all go inwards, but most of it went outwards, and we seem to have wrecked a good slice of Berlin.” The blast severely damaged buildings on the Hohenzollerrndamm, where many British married families live.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 5 November 1949, Page 5
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