Russia Says British N.C.O.'s Attacked Sentry
— — »= — — — — =■- Received Friday, 10 a.m. ' VIENNA, March 31. The Soviet Deputy High Commissioner in Austria, Major-General Teinyev, today alleged that the two British .corporals assaulted by Soviet sentries in Vienna last Sunday were drunk and had attacked a sentry. in a stateiment published in the Soviet occupation - forces newspaper, Major-General Teinyev rejected a protest by the British Deputy High Commissioner, MajorGeneral T. J. W. Winterton, and added that the two men tried to oreak through the Soviet barrier despite warnings from a Soviet sentry. Only the sentry's self control avoided serious consequences.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 April 1949, Page 5
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