Evening star., 1947-08-03
sy ,hs As.oe;a,,d Press

BERLIN, Aug. 2. - German
foremen employed in two fac.
tories shuttered by American Of.
ficials for manufacturing wal
materials for an unnamed for
eign power declared today thai
some of the products of these
plants had been delivered to 9
Russian-c controlled recipient ir
Germany's eastern zone.
American guards outside one Of
the factories said they were under
orders to prevent removal of any
thing "by the Russians" American
authorities have taken into custody
five German officials Of the plants
units of the Askania Works, q
big scientific instruments industry
Gen. Lucius d. Clay, American
occupation commander, said that il
evidence being compiled demon
strated that any one Of the four
occupation powers was involved in
receiving the war materials he
would make an official protest in
the Allied Control Council.
He said, however, that thus far
the evidence has not been completed
and refused to make a definite
statement as to whether there
would be a protest.
Factory Owners Arrested.
It was disclosed that Gen. Clay
personally ordered the matter made
public as soon as it, came to his
attention and also ordered the ar
rest of the factory owners, who
were being held for trial by an
American military government
court.
German papers quoted foremen
at the plants as saying deliveries
Of Theodolites produced in the fac
tories had been made to the Rus
sian-coritrolled Askania unit in Tel
tow. situated on the east side OF
Berlin in the Soviet occupation zone
Theodolites are instruments used
in observing the trajectories OF
guided missiles such as rockets.
One of the padlocked plants is
in Mariendorf, adjacent to the Rus
sian zone of Berlin, while the other
is in Friedenau. Both are in the
American zone of the city.
The American-licensed newspaper
Der Abend said machinery from the
Mariendorf plant had been spirited
out and shipped to the Russian zone
and the Soviet Union. Some of It,
Der Abend said, went to linden
schloss and Hirschgarten, Berlin
suburbs near Karlshorst, the Soviet
military government headquarters
One American official, asked
whether Russia was the foreign
power" mentioned in the American
closing order, replied:
These men have not yet been
tried, but when they are brought
into court their trial will be open to
the press and public. Our investi-
CATION so far indicates they can be
charged with violation of Allied
Control Authority and Berlin Kom-
mandatura laws forbidding the
manufacture, transportation or stor-
age of war materials"
A German left in charge at the
Mariendorf factory said the plant
had CLOSE ties" with another As
kama unit in the Russian sector.
He said the Oskania management
had begun removing some equip
ment from the Mariendorf plant,
but had been stopped by American
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Discovery of the .Askania opera
tions-which apparently had been
going on for considerable time
came only when American investi-
gators checked into repeated re-
quests from the German4factory Off
cials for more floor space and as
sisyarice in rebuilding their business,
Col. M. Boyle of New York City,
the officer conducting the investi-
CATION, said he had information that
quite few precision instruments
already had been sent to the
foreign power"
In another. ASPECT Of German in
dustry Der Abend said the Rus
slams, contrary to promises made to
the Germans last January, had be-
gun new wave of factory dismant-
lings for reparations in their zone
Of Germany.
The newspaper said the new dis
mantlings included such food pro-
cessing plants as sugar refineries and
also involved chemical works, elec-
trical plants and coal briquet fac
tories.
For the first time" Der Abend
added, "the Russians now are also
dismantling parts of factories be-
longing to the Soviet Aktiengesell-
schaften."
These are industrial combines con-
taning German factories to which
the Russians have taken title and
have put to work turning out I'm
ished products for reparations.
No Russian comment on Der
Abend's charges was Immediately OBJ
tainable. The Socialist Unity Party
announced last January pledge by
Marshal VASTLY D. Sokolovsky, the
Soviet commander in Germany, that
dismantling by the Rus
slams had ceased,