BRITISH VERSION OF RUSSIAN SHOOTINGS

Chronicle (Levin), 11 September 1948, Page 5

BRITISH VERSION OF RUSSIAN SHOOTINGS

Iterci\ ml -Frblay, 7 p.m. LuNDON, Sept. 10. The Kussiun-qunti'olleil Berlin radio toflav lilanied Fascist elements in ihe city's population for tlie sliootings in the Republic Nquare and also eomplained j I' laek of e.ooperation liy the British military poliee. The Gom-nuinist-led Socialist 1 nity Partv has ealieil for a eounter denionst ralion in the Spviet seetor on Suuday at noon. British seetor poliee announced that a dennan 1.7 year-old l»ov died in liospii a I as a result of lmllet wouiuls. Five otlier Gerinatis with lnillet wounds have been admitted to Western seetor hospitals. Oue Eastern seetor polieeman was arrested in the British seetor. The British conunandant (.Alajor(ieneral Ilerliert t has issued a statemeut on tlie sliootings liased 011 British and derniiui poliee reports. Jt differed from earlier eyewitness reports. The statement said a cruwd of a quarter of a million assembled outside the Reichstag for a nieeting after which tlu crowd dispersed in the British seetor in an orderlv fashion. ' ' Theie was a miiior ineident in the Soviet seetor where the erowd becanie hostile to the oeeupants of a Soviet jeep. Stoiies were prolialilv thrown and tliere w apparently some revolver shooiinu a liitle !a?er in the Pnter Den Linden uit'niii ihe hearing of the Jiritish -eetor. ' 'Son.e vouths jiulled d oivn a red flag from tlie top of the Brandenburg Gate and tlie erowd in the Soviet seetor then lieeanie hostile. Part of it surged 'baek ihroin-h the Brandenburg Gate into ihe British seetor and a Soviet guard on the Soviet war nieinorial in Tlie British seetor then drove a jeep into the road jnnetion west of the Brandenburg Oate which is part of the Soviet sei-tor and got into position to fire on Ihe erowd in tlie British seetor. The British assistant provost marshal dissnndeii " t iiem from doing this after two sliots had been lired in the air. B.ritish seetor poliee then sueeesst'ullv dispersed the erowd in the Britisli seetor.* There was lin firing in the British seetor and noliody was shot in the British seetor. Two shots were. however. lired inlo the British seetor The miinber of easualties in the Soviet seetor is uiikiiowil. ' '