WESTERN POWERS WILL NOT INSIST ON SOVIET’S 'YES’ OR ‘NO’ WITH EYE TO INVOKING U.N.O.

Grey River Argus, 18 September 1948, Page 5

WESTERN POWERS WILL NOT INSIST ON SOVIET’S 'YES’ OR ‘NO’ WITH EYE TO INVOKING U.N.O.

(Rec. 10.50) LONDON, Sept. 17. The Western envoys in Moscow were on Thursday night still awaiting an answer from M. Molotov to questions which they had raised on Tuesday with him on the Russian blockade of Berlin. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent says that if no meeting is arranged by M. Molotov to-day (Friday) the envoys will probably be instructed by their Governments to take the initiative and to seek an interview. The attitude of the Western Governments has hardened noticeably in the past few days, the correspondent adds, and it can be stated, with some assurance, that, unless M. Molotov’s reply offers positive and concrete prospects of an early agreement, it will be interpreted in the Western capitals as a break-up by Russia of the entire' negotiations and the matter would then be carried to U.N.O.

Throating Actions by Russians in Berlin Areas

. .. .. LONDON, Sept. 16 - m Lenin five tnousand attended the -u.iciiu ui a m-yeai-oid German boy, vvu.igcuig Lciieunejmann, wnu w7s kinea uuring the anti-Soviet demonstration on Septemoer. speakers at me ruiierai extuiiea Scheunemann as a "victim oi tne com war."

Afterwards the Soviet commandant in Lenin, General Kotikov, flanked oy Russian tommy-gunners, macle a lightning tour oi tne British-Soviet boundary area this afternoon, apparently because of reports that mere mignt oe trouble roiiowmg tne runstiai. Russian troops immediately alter General Kotikov left took up positions on the Soviet side of Botsuummer Biatz and Russian tommygunners patrolled the boundary near me Rranaenburg Gate. various other-incidents were reported near the eastern and southern boundaries of me American sector. American military police to-day . usneu to the Anhalter station area in the American sector, just south of Fotsdamer Flatz,, and drove back armea Russian patrols who made a series or lorays into the United states sector. The Russians were apparently trying to kidnap Western sector mu-man police.

The , British-controlled German news agency reports that Russian military squads are carrying out a mgliciy check-up on houses along the border of the Soviet sector. The soicners are carrying master keys to aiiura entry to any nouse.

Reports of Germans in the Russian seuujr neemg westward in anticipation of a Dig Russian anti-Communist purge are leaching the Western authorities.

vrexman workers are reported to be rilling rush orders for larg'd quantities m uerman tank ammunition for the Russians. m_- .H.merican-licensed newspaper, Abend, reports that a last-minute Soviet decision to cancel a new attack on the Western Allies and the Berlin City authorities caused the Soviet official newspaper, Taegliche Runsdhau, to appear five hours late this morning. The West German Constituent Asaemoiy at Bonn adopted a declaration appealing to humanity to recognise that the struggle being conducted in Germany was a struggle for all mankind. It called on Germans in the Eastern zone and Berlin “to fight on ■ n this world-wide struggle for freedom and right.”