ROUND-UP OF "WANTED"

Chronicle (Levin), 11 April 1947, Page 5

ROUND-UP OF "WANTED"

Press Assn-

Over 300 Suspects Arrested In Beriin

By Telegranh

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Received 'Friday, &0:45 aim. , LONDON, April' 10. The four Allied powers last night began • a wide round-up of criminal elements and Allied army deserters in Beriin. The operation wiii conti'nue i'or 24 hours. Three hundred suspects were detained in the British sector. Four companies of British troops and 1U0U polioe took ipart in the raias. The round-up liegan simuiuuieuuoi. in Ihe four zones witli eacli power eon-; dueting a seareh in its offn zone "Uniled States authorities sav that therara 500 people on the "wanted" list.-. exchangod between the four oeeupyiiu. ■powers, in luding deserters, wa eriminals, blackinarkot racketeers an eivil oH'eiiders. The list oi" wanted .per Fdiis in the Ameriean zone is reporteto in.-lude 58 nauies submitted by th Russians. General Keating, Deputv Militar Gov ernor of t he Ameriean zone, sun he alone had the right to sav whethe. tiie arrested person.-; should be handed over to another power. "There will be tio shooting except in seif-defenee. TlnHritish and French, like the Americans will behave in an orderly inanner. God knovvs what will happen in the othei zone, ' ' he said. (ieneral Keuting explained that th" proposal i'or the round- up came t'roiu the Russians and was iinniediately ar eejited by the British and Kreneh bu the Ainericans at lirst objeeted becuus oi' the large nundier of nnmes on th origiual l'ussiait wanted list. Fi \ e thonsand dennan police nr assisting the Allied troops. Bvcryon; sei/.ed will be htinded over to a I' on I'ower sereening eoinmissions statione in eucli seetor. Xearly 1(10 inen an women are being sought in the i nite States seetor alone.