SIX MURDERS IN 48 HOURS

Chronicle (Levin), 27 November 1946, Page 5

SIX MURDERS IN 48 HOURS

Press Assn.

GERMANY HAS ITS B1GGEST CRIME WAVE OF THE OCCUPATION

By Telegraph

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Received Wednesday, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, November 26. Six murders in forty-eight hours have set the German police on the biggest crime wave Of the occupation, says the British United Press' Berlin correspondent. It is authoritatively stated that there is 110 indication that f the killings are the work of one man or a gang. All the victims were stabbed or beaten to death. They include three men, two women and a baby boy. In addition two chairmen of guised' in Russian uniforms."

German Denazification Boards m Berlin mysteriously disappeared. They are: Hans Hartmann, whose wife is also missing, and Ernst Pauly, who was "arrested" by two civilians posing as policemen. Twice within the last ten days bold avmed bandits, dressed in "foreign uniforms," held up the Berlin-Magdeburg express, plundered pasengers ad raped women, said the headquarters of uhe German State Railways. Ten armed guards and two plain clothes men are now travelling on the train-. Strong guards are being placed on other trains in sections of the Russian occupation zone. At least two attacks have been reported resentlv on suburban trains between Potsdam and Brandenburg. The authorities added that the Russian military police caught, but could not identify, uniformed robbers. The Associated Press correspondent reealled that the Russians in the past have attributed crimes in the Russian zone to "Germans dis-

Nazi Agitation Not Deatl It is a commonplace in the British zone today that if troubie breaks out the people of Hamburg will stir it, says the Times' Hamburg correspondent, who points out that with the winter they will be faced with conditions in Hamburg certainly as bad as anywhere, and the spirit is probably worse than anywhere. The uncertainties of the future are combining, he says, to add to the prevailing embitterment which is being turned to political account by those interested in discrediting British policy. Responsible German officials admit that the British authorities are handling the situation with understanding, but a better presentation is needed of the British case and of the burden the British taxpayer is carrying to keep the Germans alive. Nazi agitation is not dead, the correspondent adds, and the Communists are exploiting the people's hopelessness for their owrn ends.