INCREASED AIR LIFTS TO COUNTER BAD WEATHER

Chronicle (Levin), 2 August 1948, Page 5

INCREASED AIR LIFTS TO COUNTER BAD WEATHER

BERLIN", July 31. Berlin 's projee-ted third airport | would increase the maximum potential of the food and coal air lift "to SOOO tons dailv, provided sufficient aircraift J were available, said General Clay to- , dav as 4500 tons daily wele sufficient to operate Berlin economy at a slighfly better ration than at present. However, 8000 tons daily would be neeessary to average 4500 over a period of bad weather. General Clay said the position in Berlin was "about the same. " The events which had taken place would have taken place regardless of the eurrency reform. He added that the Western Powers would fly in newsprint, if neeessarv, to maintain the Western Iic-ensed press. Ths British Foreign Office has announced that Dakotas and Hvthe liyingboats had been chartered from British Civil Airlines to join the Berlin air lift on August 4. The official Soviet newspaper Taegliche Rundschau, has warned all persons and institutions in Berlin 's western seetors that they obeyed the British, French, and American Commandants' orders at their own risk because such orders did not have a judicial basis, says Reuter's Berlin corres- , pondent. The British licensed German newsagencv has reported that the Roviet militarv adniinistration secretly discussed the appointment of its own Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayo of Berlin from members of the Con munist controlled Rocialist Unitv PartThe newsagencv said Marshal .Sokc lovskv told the Partv he would 1' glad to receive a denutation as sooas it completed the " frictionless ' taking over of the city government ' ' L protect Berlin 's population from tli Western Powers' exploitation."