RUSSIAN STRANGLEHOLD ON BERLIN'S MONEY
Received 3L'unday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Augu t £. Firms and citizens in Berlin 's xvestfrn sectors are desperately short of nioney and the Citv Couneil is unnble to pav its employees because oi the Ru-siar. stra Mgpho.hl on Berlin \s finance, says The 7 lnies ' Berlin correspondent. Western sector workers fire hostile because oi the non-receipt of uages. Resentment is rising against the ('onnminist administration. The Western Militarv (tovernments are graveiy concerned and are considering measnres to offsot the problein. Today was the last dav for Western Borliners to taka advantage of the Rhssian nlfer to register in the Eastern sector for rations, says The Times' correspondent. Few lnave done so. The ('onnnuiiists claini that the Russians
are able to feed thfe whole of Beidin 1 biit the Social Deinocrat Party denounced ihe otfer hs "a criine against huriianity like the blockade. ' ' Reuter 's Berlin co'rrespondent says 3000 workers are expediting the early completion of £i new Russian airtleld near Berlin, whieh the Russians elaim will be Europe 's most mdderii one. The Berliu Coma.il jusi i;ewip:.per Neties Deutschland confirined reports that numefous Berlin police officials had been arrested in the Soviet sector for declaring their allegiance to the polieb presidency in Friesenstrasse in the United States sector. The newspaper reported a number of persons arrested for " atteihptirig to stehl feqliipment on behalf the Friesenstrasse." Di. S+umm, the new police president whom the City Couneil recently appointed to succeed the Communist, Colonel Markgraf, has issued a pro; claiiiation warning the population oi all four «ectors of Berlin against a.eceptijig oxders isoued by .Markgraf. The proclamation instructed them to apply in all police matters to Friesenstresse. Warkgraf 's pblice headqharters issued an dlnlbst identical proclaniation in the bpposite sense. Dr. Sttimm has called a confereiice of senifr police officialp for later in the week, re-* ports the Daily Telegrdph's Berlin correspondent. Dr. Stuinm has stated that if the police coiiimander in the Soviet se'etor, Coinmunist Siedel, fails to attend he will be "subjected to diseiplinary measures. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 August 1948, Page 5
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