RUSSIANS MOVE WHEN SURROUNDED BY BRITISH
BERLIN, April 2. Russian troops who established a roadhlock in an outlving part of tlie British sector of Berlin and refuscd lo move when rerjuested to do so by a senior British iOiiicer, later withdrew without incident when they were sur j rounded by about 400 British troops |;Ind bv armoured cars. | The Russians Jast night closed th" j 100 niiles of raiiway ijetween Berliii . and the Russian zonal cheekpoint at j Vorsfelde, wliieh liitlierto had lieen 1 used for carrying militarv coal suppliiv I t'roni the Ruiir to Berlin. This mean~; ( iliat inilitary coal supplies will have to i be nioved along the Ilelmstedi j Madgeburg-Berlin raiiway line whieh 1 until now has been used only by [tas i senger trains.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 April 1948, Page 5
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