East Berlin Police Ordered Out Of Paralysed Western Stations
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Reeeived Wednesday, 9.35 a.m. BERLIN, May 24. The Western Military Governments have ordered thf Western seetor German police1 to take over the strike-bounc elevated railway stations -in the three Western sectors and tr expel the Eastern sector raiiway police who are holding them The United States commandant, Brigadier-General Franl Howley,' said he was ordering his German police to move int' every station in the United States sector. The British and French authorities are doing likewise.
- General Howley said that the Americans were "iust about otlt of pa ience" with the vio'ence of the Brirlin strike. "I won't stand hy while Sovift rai way police shoot in i « crowds in the American sector and forcibly take prisoners to the fuGern sector who will be tried there and perhaps sentenced to ■death." Until now railway property has bee"i conridered extra-territorial and under the comp ete control of the Russian zone rail management. In a letter to the Russian transpo *t chief, General Petrov, telling him that he had demanded the rt.viMTal of the Russian sector railway police from the United S'ates .-fw'or of Berlin, General Howley said: "It is also reaueste-d that you is.sne order to withdraw immedi-
.ately any Soviet troop Uhits whicl 'have been sent into the Uni'er States sector to occupy railwa: property." Colonel Stewart, British pubT safety chief. told 40 Eastern secto police holding Grunewald statio* iin the British ssctor to get out [They did and 200 British secto: j German police took over. J Colonel Stewart agree'd to ar Eastern sector mlice request fo' permission to leave 12 men behini to guard railway property. Co'one Stewart then led his men to Westkreuz station. He repeated hi,r Ultimatum and 20 Russian sectoi guards marched out. Colone Stewart allowed Eas' ern secto' - police to leave six men behind tc protect railway property.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1949, Page 5
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