Beating Russian Blockade Of Berlin

Chronicle (Levin), 6 July 1948, Page 5

Beating Russian Blockade Of Berlin

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Received Tuesday, 10;35 a.m. LONDON, Juiy 5: , The Roy.al Air Fdrce and United Stat^ Air Forcb continue to cdrhhat • the Russian siege of Beriin with all possible Jil^heS: Tempfelhof Aer odrome officials said today that no trohble of ahy kind had been feborted ih the air cofriddr. ±n the , 24 hotirs up tb mid-day today, 189 Royal Air FOfce airbfaft had landed supplies at GatoW aifport and 230 Arriefican xsuppiy plaries had landed at Tempeillof. Bad weather siowed today's air servic'd very siightly. . All ifeave for the British garrison in Bbfliti which woiild t'akb thein btttside the city has been pancelied. it is emphasiS'ed that this , bf der has only bfeen intrbduced so that 'all available troops could assist the 'air lift, and to conserve space in bhe planes. 1j -is "ofiiciaiiy denied that the Russians have bfooested against the air operations in the Beriin area, but "G'erman reports frbih the Russian Zbn'e say that the Russiahs have set up a hetwork of Soviet Aif Force observatibn posts to record as mahy detaiis as possible «of the Angib-American air fieet provisionihg df Beflih. The Minister of State, Mr., Hector McN'eil, said in the Hduse oi fcoiiimons today that tlie air lift tb Beriin was 'costihg Bfitain about £60du daiiy. When barges, r'oad and rail was used for transport tb Beriin, the Germans met the eost in marks. An Air Ministry spokesman anjibunce'd tliat 10 Rundeiiancl llyiiigbbitts will flv food into Berhn from HambUrg tom'drfOw. The flying-boats will lfeave Routhainp-ton early in the morning and land on the Elbe estuary, near Hamburg, to pick up supplies. fhey will land on the Harvel-R.ee Lake near GatdW airport. Eaeh plane will make two tfips a flay and carry six tons on eacli journey. Ati official bf the Beriin Municipai Food Department, stated last • night tiiat the city's fodd was assurbd for tlie next 30 days and in a few days the position would be even better.