DIKE BREAK IS PLUGGED
[From Late Editions of Yesterday's Times.]
Dutch Celebrate Flood-Repair
Work at Hellevoetsluis j
I' I
HELLEVOETSLUIS, the Nether-
lands, Feb. 28 (.fl?)Today, four
weeks after death-dealing seas
flooded a Sixth of Holland's arable
land, the first of thirty big dike
holes was successfully plugged
here.
I Villagers anxiously watched the.
'delicate operation which will sal-j
ivagesome 6,500 acres of fertile!
j farmland now under salt water, j
Workers drifted a 150-foot barge
between two dike ends and filled
jit with sand at ebb tide. Then they
I sandbagged the space left between
j the barge and the dikes.
There was a festive air among
j the villagers as they watched
scores of Dutch engineers super
vising the operation.
