NO AMERICAN AIR SORTIE OVER BERLIN

Chronicle (Levin), 17 April 1948, Page 5

NO AMERICAN AIR SORTIE OVER BERLIN

Received Fridav, 10.").") p.m. LONDON, A[)ril 16. General ( 'i;i v ( L.S. conmuinder j donied a reporl that he ordered Superfortresses to mahe a sortie ove. Berlin, says the Associated , Press' Iterlin correspondent. Russian gourds at Ihe barrier estab lished yeslerday on the road from Vienna to the t'niled States airport a! Killin are no longer requestng tlie production of the Four-Powe'r grev pas-' and cheching througli Americans upou its production of War Department identitv cards, says the Associiited I'ress' Vienna correspondent. Allied fommnnde.rs, despite the relaxation, ara expected to ptotest at the AJlied Oon trol Oouncil meeting today. , The l)aily Te'legraph's berlin correpomlent stiys fieirnan witnesses at' tlie british inquiry into the berlin ai: t-rasli have asked for protection agaiimt fiossilile Ru.ssian reprisals against them. Most of tnem live near th> iiuundary between the british sector o. berlin and tlie Russian /oue, and it iunderstood their testimony indicate: that the collision was caused by tli Russian lighter jtilot. Their names an-. addresses are likely to be withheid when the ofhcial rejmrt of the inquiry is issued. Ainerican as well as dennan witnesses wero e.xamined on Thursda> and the inqufrv is expected to concludi t oday. Tlie Titnes's Berlin corresnonden' states that tlie British authorities las" night gave pertuission for Russian ox fierts to exumine the wreckage of th Vak ligluer and remove it (o the boviet zone. The Kussians will mahe thei: exami nation on .May 1(> in the prese.n'*'of a British nhserver w ho, however, will noither ask nor auswer questions.