Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-06-08
Germans Flee
Red Rearming
BY Thousands
Risk Death at Hands
Of Peoples Police to
Enter Bonn Territory
BY The Associoied Press

oy me ASSOCtOIeo rFeSS
BERLIN, June 7.-Thousands Of
fearful Germans struggled to flee
from Soviet-held East Germany
tonight as Communists rushed
arming even in schools and fac
tories.
A stream of human misery
poured west from the Soviet zone.
slipping past Russian sentries and
Peoples Police at the risk of death
in the Reds new frontier security
belt.
In groups ranging from a single
family to 800 persons. the East
Germans arrived steadily in the
American and British defended
states of the Bonn Republic.
Behind them, Communist chief
tainS in East Berlin threw off all
the wraps of vast armament
program including the 2 million
members of the Communist Free
German Youth (FDJD and workers
III all key industries.
rs Divisions Put as Goal.
The aim is an army of Is divi-
Sions with $4,000 men, backed up
by millions of East Germans or
ganized as Red militia and taught
to hate the West.
The Soviet-controlled news
agency Adm reported high schools
are giving courses in firearms.
military communications and
'aerodynamics and that armed
defense corps" are being set up
in major factories. -
Under the rearmament program,
every East German-regardless Of
age or sex-is ordered by the
Communists to do your part in
defending our homeland"
Infantry battalions of girls in
the FDJ have been QUILTED in
uniforms identical with those Of
the Soviet Wacs.
Aimed at Adenauer.
1--WE are rearming to make clear
to the warmongers that they will
never get what they want" East
German Foreign Minister George
Dertinger declared in a speech
at Leipzig reported today.
ITO snatch the lead away from
Adenauer West German Chan
cellor and his henchmen is to
save Germany"
East German rearmament,
whose groundwork was laid with
the formation of military cadres
IN the Peoples Police three years
ago. is pictured by the Commu-
nists now as a sudden move to
counter the threat of West Ger
many'S alliance with the West
ern Powers.
Troubled Berlin was hit by an
other Soviet grab today as tho
Russians grimly went on with
sealing off the city from their
surrounding zone.
Another Agreement Broken.
The Peoples Police showed IS
Germans out of five homes on the
Frohnau estate, whose land is
chiefly in the French sector but
whose buildings are in Soviet ter
ritory.
The action broke still another
of the 1945 agreements among
the Allies. The ousted farmers
lost all their livestock to the Red
police.
The British army's five-day bar
ricade of Russia's Radio Berlin
headquarters in the Western
heart of the city-a reprisal for
Soviet territorial steals on the
edge of the British sector-seemed
heading into futility.
The Communist radio staff and
Soviet tommygun guards were as
defiant as ever tonight, boasting
they would never leave at British
bidding, and glorying in a fam
fare of publicity.
Hoped to Ease Tension.
British sources said they had
hoped the radio blockade would
lead to Allied-Soviet negotiations
relaxing some of the Berlin ten
sion.
Sharply protesting Britain's
Outrageous action" Soviet Of
ficials have refused to bargain for
"a settlement.
A new squeeze by the Russians
in the form of multi-million dollar
bills for Allied road and rail ia
Icilities through East Germany
was forecast by American officials.
The United States and Britain
have just rejected bills for $18.-
507 AL for telephone lines through
the Soviet zone dating back to