Evening star., 1948-09-12
Western Powers
Are Targets Of
Demonstration
BY the Assecioted Press


Berlin braced itself tonight for
Communist demonstration.
Under the slogan anybody who
doesn't march tomorrow is a Nazi, y
the Communists We're reported to
have ordered even children to turn
out for a Sunday rally against the
Western powers.
American officials frankly stated
that the situation had become
highly dangerous" with Germans
meeting under one power to demon
strate against another power.
The Sabbath demonstration is set
for the Lustgarten, about half
mile inside the Soviet sector of
Berlin. The rally was called to pro-
test Thursdays anti-Russian mass
meeting which touched off street
fighting.
Clay Hits Demonstrations.
After the most violent week in
the 79-day-old Soviet blockade, Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, American military
governor, said:
Mass demonstrations are not the
way to solve the present Berlin
situation"
The Americans planned to imi-
tate the British and ban any DEM
onstrations in the American sector
within incident range" of the Rus
sian boundary. Both British and
Americans acknowledged that it
was difficult to prohibit anti-Com-
munist outbursts altogether in view
of the Russian backed drive to ouSt
the elected city government.
Western German police mobilized
strong forces to guard the sector
boundaries against possible in
vasion of demonstrators from the
Eastern zone rally.
Germans Growing BOlder.
The Germans, long split along
East West lines. this week grew
bolder as a result of the four power
snarl. For the first time they physic-
ally attacked Russian troops, show
ering them with rocks after Thurs
days anti-Communist demonstra-
ton. Germans ripped the Red Flag
from atop Brandenburg Gate. They
stoned a Russian war memorial.
Today the Christian-Democrat
newspaper went one step further.
1t advised the Russians to pull down
the massive monument which they
proudly erected to the conquest
of Berlin.
The Soviet military administra-
ton Berlin has made every, con-
ceivable mistake" the newspaper
said. This monument is the worst.
Never before in Europe has a victor
erected q war monument in the
capital of the conquered"
RepatriatiOns Reported.
Adding to the cleavage, British
licensed newspaper said the Rus
slams had repatriated thousands OF
members of the Paulus SeydlltZ
Free Germany" army, inf1ltrating
them into the police forces through
out their zone. The report was
given credence in Allied intelligence
quarters.
The move would give immediate
strong-arm support to communism
in the zone. A more distant and
vital objective could be to set up
the nucleus for Communist army
if the Western Allies agreed with
Russia to pull out occupation forces.
The Free Germany army was
formed after the Stalingrad battle
and is composed of Germans who
have been converted to communism.
Berliners marked down the last
few days as the bloody week" OF
the crisis, with one dead and at
least 20 injured. For the first time.
Russian soldiers fired after a Soviet
jeep was stoned.
Violence Began Monday.
Violence began Monday when
c m m un ist led demonstrators
stormed the City Hall, forcing the
anti-Red government to Withdraw
to the safety of the West-perhaps
permanently.
Russian directed German police
crashed into an American office OF
the City Hall on the following day
and carried off in chains 19 Western
German policemen refuged there.
On the. next night the Russians
clamped a hunger blockade on the
City Hall to Starye out score more
policemen still cornered in the
British and French Offices. They
lifted this and guaranteed safe
passage to the policemen, but only
few blocks away Russians and
Germans seized the police and car
ried them off.
These events burst into the Gull
minating anti-Russian fiareup in
Thursdays demonstration.
The Soviet-licensed news agency
said a Soviet military court will'try
on Monday the four men seized
after Thursdays riot They will
be charged with attacking Soviet
citizens" and police.
The chief of the British trans
port section in Berlin said that
some railway mail cars have been
moving back and forth all summer
between Eastern and Western zones
of Germany on routes other than
the blockaded Berlin -Helmstedt
line.
This movement. he said, has mo
significance" as far as the Soviet
blockade of Berlin is concerned.
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