Evening star., 1952-05-31
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Berlin Suburb
Tension Mounts
AS Police Tighten
Zonul Restrictions
BY the Assoeiased Press

BERLIN. May -31.-Communist
police abruptly seized the hamlet
Of Buergerablage on the fringe
Of West Berlin today and ordered
its 43 families to get out of their
homes. Western authorities here
said 1t was part Of the Commu-
mist program to seal Berlin of
from the surrounding Russian
zone.
AS part of the increasing Com
munist pressure in the campaign
against the newly signed West
German peace contract. the Rus
slams also turned back Allied pa
troll cars on the Berlin Helmstedt
Autobahn for the sixth straight
day. West Berliners feared a new
blockade was ir the making.
Families Ordered Out.
Buergerablage lies just within
the Russian zone. but. admins
tratively it belonged to the bor-
ough of Spandau, in the British
sector. Suddenly this morning
the black -clad Communist Volks-
polizei peoples Police) appeared
and knocked on the doors of the
residents. The 43. families were
told to clear out. They were given
no reason.
The. East German Communist
Government has announced it is
setting up security belt" along
the zonal border. It claimed this
was necessary to keep out spies
and saboteurs" from West Ger
many. which this week signed
political and military alliances
with the West.
But nothing was said about
sealing of Berlin with similar
no-man's-land. Therefore. the
swoop on tiny Buergerablage came
as a surprise. West Berlin police
said the people there were told by
the Communist police they should
pack up and go to West Berlin
where you belong"
Stir Hate Campaign.
Meanwhile, the Communists
whipped up a. fresh hate cam
paign against free West Berlin
which might forbode new blockade
as well as border seizures. The
Russian controlled ADM news
agency distributed q long article
charging that West Berlin was "a
base Of agents and black mar
keters." 1t said Communist police
were frequently being attacked by
agents and saboteurs" and that
the situation was intolerable. This
was apparently a buildup for new
restrictions against the city.
More than 100 miles to the west
the Communists also stepped up
their evacuations in the security
belt" along the zonal border with
West Germany. There they
plucked another 40 families out
of the town of HoetensIeben and
shipped them of to the interior
Road Traffic Normal.
Road traffic along the big super
highway connecting Berlin with
the free world was normal, but
Berliners awaited the invocation
tomorrow of an East German gov
ernment order requiring special
passes for Germans travelling in
the Soviet zone.
Their announcement said that
special passes would be required
of all travellers. and West Ber-
liners feared that this might also
be applied to trucks rolling sup
plies and raw materials into the
city.
The West meanwhile awaited a
reply to a stiff protest submitted
yesterday to Soviet Gen. VASTLY
I. Chuikov against the patrol car
ban and obstructive measures
taken by the East German gov
ernment.
Deputy United States High
Commissioner Samuel Reber, in a
note which was duplicated by the
British and French, demanded
that the cars be allowed to pass
and haraSsing tactics Of the East
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