RUSSIANS FIRE ON CROWD OF GERMANS
Received Friday. 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 9. Russian tommy-gunners fired into a crowd of German civilians in Berlin today, wounding at least live, including a ten-year-old boy. The shooting followed an anti-Communist rally of 200,000 Berliners in Republic Squaiv, in front of the ruined Reichstag in ihe British sector. The British United Press' Berlin correspondent says that ten Russiau tommy-gunners, as well as several squads of Russian sector German police, fired a number of volleys at the crowd. The heaviest bursts of fire, involving at least 60 shots, came from inside the Russian sector, but a Russian Lieut.Golonel admitted to British safety ofiicers that the Russians fired" at least three shots while inside the British sector.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19480910.2.17.2
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 10 September 1948, Page 5
Word Count
122RUSSIANS FIRE ON CROWD OF GERMANS Chronicle (Levin), 10 September 1948, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in