RUSSIANS LEAVING EASTERN GERMANY
MOST OF ORIGINAL FORCE ALREADY GONE. / Received Sunday, 9,5 p.m. LONDON, March 17. The Red Army is iea-/xug East^ru Germany, says the Gbserver's Berlm corresponde.J. j is reliably estimated that 75 per cent. of the original occupation force has already gone and the remainder will leave within a le v weeks. The troops are being replacci by a- sinall, well-^quiyped and weli d.s cipiined mi-Jary police force. T.i3 withdrawal has been i.arried oul so di icreetly that it has hardly been noticed in Berlin. The reasons for the withdrawal are said to he that LIosco ?j reaiised th t Russia 's prestige and political influenco in Eastern Germany iiad suiered a severe setback d ue to the exc sses (f undisciplined soldiers and deserters and also bscause the Red Army was livLi; off the land,
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 March 1946, Page 5
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