Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-06-16
vi||ager Revolt
In Red GERMANY
Appears Que||ed
5000 Police Sent
To Is Little Towns
Along Security Belt

BONN. Germany. June TO-
Five thousand German Commu-
mist police appeared today to have
stamped out a wildf1re of revolt
in more than a dozen Soviet zone
villages where East Germans pro-
tested their eviction from the
Communist frontier security belt.
The fights between police and
|villagers-at times reaching the
proportions of pitched battles
have been going on for five days.
Scores have been arrested. More
than 80 casualties have been re-
ported.
Police riot squads were reported
dispatched by the Communists to
at least is villages along the new
security belt. as desperate civilians
resisted being forcibly moved out
Iruthlessly to make way for the
new frontier no-man's land. The
Villagers also protested a Commu-
mist police hunt for "undesirables''
LII Tie DOrQer area.
1000 Villagers Attack.
The resistance conferred in the
border state of Thuringia. In Kali
|tennordheim. 1000 villagers tried
to free two families of political
|unreliables" from the village jail,
They clashed with 800 Red police
reinforcements.
At Streudorf. angry farmers
armed themselves with axes and
scythes and tried to beat of a
police patrol bent on evicting eight
families and deporting them to the
interior Three police were
wounded before riot squads rushed
in and quelled the revolt.
In many other incidents, police
were reported ambushed or at
tackled openly. Patrol cars were
smashed and burned. In some
places, entire villages Joined ir
the resistance. But at present, DO.
lice reinforcements appeared tt
have the situation under tempo.
rary control.
The East German Communist
government began a radio anc
newspaper propaganda campaign
to justify it's police measures al
needed to "save democracy anc
our republic"
New Wave of Spies Reported.
At the same time the East Zone
Communist bosses were reported
sending new wave of spies ant
agitators into West Germany tx
whip up resentment against re.
arming for Western defense.
Allied officials said the Red.
took advantage of the fight Of
thousands of refugees from the
Soviet zone to step up inf1.tra-
ton of Communist agents in the
West. The officials outlined this
picture:
Since the East German govern.
Iment plunged into a big arma-
ment program last month, the
flood Of refugees pouring into
West Germany has more thar
doubled. The Communists filter
into refugee camps set up inside
West Germany and pretend to bt
fleeing persecution. Some are
Inabbed by watchful screening
Others get through.
Fleeing by Thousands.
During the first 10 days of June
4, 700 panicky East Germans boltee
into West Germany to escape mill.
tary service or deportation from
their homes in the security zone
being created along the inter.
zonal frontier. During May, 10000
refugees fed to West Germany
compared with 5000 in February
Some of the Red agents are
West German youths from Com.
|munist sabotage and espionage
schools in the East, trained in pc.
litical agitation, strike leading
and rioting.
Their main function now is tt
|embarrass the Bonn government
and the Western Allies by trying
to WOO the West Germans away
from military and political al
lances with the West.
A secondary aim is to instigate
strikes to cripple West German
production for defense and to far
public disturbances.