Roosevelt Standard | 1919-07-30 | Page 2 | Second Dead Sea off English Coast

second dead sea 3 off english coast london A sea in which nothing may live has come into being off the southeast coast 0 of england it 1 Ps a second dead sen sea formerly this tea soa abounded in life it was vins the home of 0 t the lie succulent the hie merry mussel the hie winsome whelk and the coy cockle now the natural home of those domestic dainties has fallen under it blight and I 1 they have been obliged to pack up their shells dud aud silently steal a am way a y Peg ivell vell bay la is where the dead sea lies it was once the mot most famous of the shellfish shell fish areas its donn downfall fall I 1 la traced to the sinking of an oil tunk tank steamer early in the war the vessel was vao torpedoed one night arid and thousands of gallons of crude oil flooded over the downs the oil swamped the haunts of shrimp mussel whelk and cockle they wore were lubricated to death further sinking caused I 1 more poison to invade the shellfish beds the sh rimps breeding waters and now the whole area Is dead