RUSSO-AMERICAN INCIDENT IN BERLIN
Received Friday, 10.20 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 30. United States military patrols were rushed to the southernmost part of the United States sector of Berlin today following confused reports that Russian troops were firing into the area. They found that one German had been shot, but that the incident was not as bad as early reports suggested. The shooting occurred when a German crowd gathered outside a house where a Russian lieutenant was visiting a German mrl. The lieutenant left the house and threatened the crowd with a riffe as he backed towards the nearby woods. Two other Russians came to the lieutenant's assistance. The lieutenant fired three shots, hitting one German, as the American military police arrived. While a Russian tommy-gunner stood by with his finger on the trigger, the lieutenant was approached by two Russian-speaking British newspapermen, through whom the lieutenant apologised to an American colonel. "I am sorry it happened," he said. "I would never shoot an American. I was just trying to scare the German mob. I don't see why thej'e should be so much excitement about one German girl."
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 October 1948, Page 5
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