BIG LINE-UP OF TRANSPORT FOR RACE TO BERLIN
Received Thursday, 10.45 a.in. BERLIN, May 11. The blockade approached its end tonight in a setting of floodlights, flags and Press headlines. Floodlights lit the gaudy flagdecked scene at the highway border crossing at Helmstadt, where the first bariier is to go up. They illuminated the ghostlike Helmstadt railway station, where a number of trains are ready tb go as soon as the blockade is lifted. . Interest centres in what promises to be a wild road race to Berlin — 100 miles away. There was considerable jockeying for positions by reporters hoping to *get a start in their effort to be first across the Russian zone. The leading position, however, went by official British orders to a British Army jeep which is posted at the head of the line, followed by four other British Army vehicles. The simple lifting of a .white wooden gate is all that remains to send the great assemblage of cars, truqks and trains on their way to Beriin — and mark the finish of the historic siege. Popular exuberance at the end of the blockade has risen today and Berlin is awaiting midnight in a carnival atmosphere.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 May 1949, Page 5
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