Evening star., 1948-09-11
Western Allies
'Incite' Berlin,
RedsCharge
Communist Press
Warns of Serious
Consequences
BY the kssoeiofed Press

BERLIN, Sept. 1.-THE Soviet
military administrations official
newspaper today accused the
Western Allies of ''inciting" Ber-
liners against Russia and Com
muniSm.
The entire Communist press rallied
against Communists IN the
most abusive terms it has yet used.
1t warned that thursdays bloody
street fighting, which followed a
huge Communist demonstra--
ton, might have serious conse-
quences.'
The obvious aim was to build up
tomorrow's Communist counter
rally in the Soviet sector and in
tensify Communist demands that
Berliners must kick out the elected
ti-Communist city government.
Spies Reported Seized.
Meantime, the Russian-licensed
news agency Adm reported last
night that a German-led spy ring
supported" by American and Brit
ish authorities, had been smashed
in Eastern Germany with the arrest
of IS agents.
I'm Washington there was no
official comment on the an
nouncement, but some officials
suspected the reported smashing
of a spy ring" was part of
Communist effort to suppress OPP
position in the Soviet occupation
zone)
The report said all the arrested
agents were under orders from Kurt
Schumacher, Social Democrat lead
er in Western Germany, and had
"the fullest support of American
and British occupation authorities" J"
1t hinted that Schumacher's So
cialists operated an underground
throughout the Russian zone.
Reached in Hanover, Schumacher
refused to make any statement on
the Soviet agencys charges.
Mail Allowed to Go Through.
Earlier, it was announced in
Frankfurt that an American court
had sentenced Count Heinrich Won
Einsiedel, 26, great-grandson Of Bis
marck, Germany's iron chancellor" "
to six months in Jail for carrying
false papers. He had been arrested
as a suspected contact man" for
the Russians in the United States
zone.
Railway officials in Hanover said
last night the Russians allowed
eight railway cars of mail to travel
from blockaded Berlin to the Brit
ish zone of Germany during the
day. A British transport official
IN Berlin said it had mo sig
nificance as far as the blockade of
Berlin is concerned"
The official said the westWar1
movement of mail posted in the
Russian sector of Berlin has been
going on all summer ''in dribs and
drabs." He said the mail trains
do not travel over the blockaded
international Helmstedt line, but
along q northerly route which has
never stopped such trafic.
Taegliche Runschau, Soviet mill
tary administration organ, spear
headed today's Communist press
attack.
Completely irresponsible Fascist
clements in the Berlin city govern
ment are up to tricks which nat
urally can lead to serious results"
.ile paper warned.
Talks Apparently Deadlocked.
1T is inadmissable that in the
former capital of Fasclsm repre-
sentatives of the occupation powers
not only do not act against roWdy
Fascist rabble, but even incite 1t
and take it under protection
Neues Deutschland, newspaper OF
the Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity
Party said I'VE believe the Soviet
government well knows how to diff
ferentiate between war agitators in
Berlin and the peaceful Berlin popu-
lation.
we expect now as before that
negotiations in Moscow will have
favorable outcome" it said, but
every Berliner should see clearly
hat with this city government and
IS Mayor Berlin can only expect
disadvantages.
With the situation in Berlin
;olsening, there still was no indi-
ltion when the four military gov
nors would meet here again to
1rtinue discussions toward settle
lent of the 79-day Soviet blockade
7See CFRMAN page A-2D