Evening star., 1948-10-03
Russians Still Keeping|
Air|ih Pilots GUESSING
On Corridor Gunnery |
~ the Assoeiotsd Press

BERLIN, Oct. 2.-The Russians
served notice that their fighter
planes would practice aerial gun
merry in the airlift corridor to Ber-
lin today. But officials said tonight
that no British or American pilots
saw any shooting.
Yesterday Russian fighters few in
the corridor notwithstanding
ground targets without posting any
notice.
That's the way they seem to-
operate" one United States air
oficial said. 'One time they'll say
they are going to do something in
the corridor and don't do it. Next
time, they'll do it without telling
us. Just to keep us guessing, Il
guess"
There still was no reply from the
Russians to an American protest
against the buzzing by Russian
fighters of two United States cargo
planes three days ago. Yesterday
Russian Yaks made a mock attack
on a British plane and similar
British protest was filed.
The West Berlin press reported the
Russians were making preparations
to remove large section of their
military government from Karls- |
horst, q Berlin suburb, to Leipzig.
A dispatch from Leipzig said a large
section of that Saxon city had been
requisitioned and sealed OIL with
Russian soldiers erecting closely
guarded compounds.
In the British sector of Berlin,
crowd of Germans pounced on
; Soviet controlled German police to
liberate prisoner. The police were
taking the prisoner to Potsdam via
the elevated railroad system.
The Soviet-licensed ADM agency
. said the German prisoner dashed
, out of the train at station and
! shouted he was being kidnapped and
; dragged of to Potsdam.' A station
, crowd intervened and he escaped. |
Adm said this was the second such
: freeing of a criminal" by interven-
ton Of crowds in the western sectors
. Of Berlin in recent weeks.
Other dispatches to the West Ber-
! lin press reported the Russians
; broke a sitdown hunger strike in
GoerlitZ, Saxony, with threats to
! plunder the city. Other reports said
; unidentified Germans in Jena in
Soviet-occupied Thuringia draped a
] Communist orfice with sWastika
flags and daubed tar on monument
. honoring former Nazi concentra-
J ton camp inmates.
j Cheese Ration Protested.
The Russian-controlled press had
) no comment on these reports of
unrest in the Russian zone but there
Z have been admissions in that press
. recently of food shortages and purge
actions against anti-Soviet elements.
The Goeritz strike was reported
by the American-licensed Der
Abend" which said workers in a |
large railroad car factory went on
strike after the city's population
had been given cheese instead of
meat rations for six weeks.
The strike ended, the paper said,
when the Russian commandant !
threatened to permit the city to
be plundered for three days.
The three western powers inter-
vened In Berlin's east-west news
paper war by ordering German
police into Russian-controlled ele-
waited railroad stations of West Ber-
lin to protect persons buying or
selling Western newspapers. The
action was taken after Communist
controlled railroad police confiscated |
Western newspapers from news
stands and from passengers.
ADM later reported that one Com
munist railroad policeman had been
arrested in a French sector station.
The agency claimed he was merely
seeking to ascertain if the news
dealers were observing the rules"