Evening star., 1961-08-22
BERLIN
Adenouer Flies to Show
Concern for Troubled City
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COHtlHuOu EEOm FTSG rage
Adenauer's delay. said wash
ington is closer than Bonn"
Mr.. Adenauer went directly
from the airport to visit the
West Berlin refugee reception
center at Marienfelde.
He was cheered and nearly
mobbed there by several hun
dred recently arrived refugees
from East Germany:
Police had to force a way
through the throng.
Reassures Refugees
Mr.. Adenauer stopped brief
ly to assure the refugees that
their brethren in East Berlin
and East Germany would never
be forgotten and then left for
q tour of the wall erected by
the Communist regime.
Rumors circulated that a
high ranking Soviet leader
would arrive soon in East Ber-
linz presumably in an effort to
counter the effect of the hero'S
welcome given Mr.. johnson in
West Berlin.
But Western allied circles
said they doubted the East Ger
man Communists would make
any such obvious gesture. The
Red regime has proclaimed the
border closing great victory
against the West.
Hours before Mr.. Adenauer's
arrival, 5000 British troops
turned out in another display
of allied military readiness. A
British spokesman called it a
routine alert exercise to
falmiliarize the men with their
assignments in case of an
emergency, and within four
hours most of the troops had
returned to their quarters.
Determination Shown
Although the three allied gar
risons stage such alerts Pc
riodically, it underscored the
allied determination to remind
the Communists at every |
chance of the Vests military
presence in the city 110 miles
behind the Iron Curtain.
One company of the British
garrison's infantry brigade al
ready was drawn up in battle
position opposite Communist
forces along the Zonal border.
The company had deployed
with tanks, mortars and anti
tank guns yesterday when the
East German Reds showed up
with several hundred heavily
armed soldiers and armored
cars to mend holes in the
fences blocking off the British
sector.
Today the barrier had been
strengthened and the hundreds
of Red reinforcements had
withdrawn. The Communists
resumed their usual routine of
patrolling and the British tanks
and infantry began to with
draw.
The British said they would
repeat such shows Of force
every time there is similar ac-
tiyfty by the Communists.
American and French military
authorities indicated they were
ready to do the same.
Taunted as DislOyal
In East Germany, the Red
regime strove to make life
harder for the 10000 East Ber-
liners who held jobs in West
Berlin until the border was
closed against them.
The workers are repeatedly
being taunted for disloyalty to
East Germany and are being
punished by being forced to do
rough, low-paid work. 1t was
expected that many and per-
haps all of them would be
driven from their homes and
scattered throughout the hin
terland, to rid East Berlin of
an element potentially danger
Gus to the Communists.
East German peoples police
used tear gas and smoke bombs
last night to break up a group
of 100 East Berliners listening
to news from a loudSpeaker
truck in West Berlin, Western
police reported.
West Berlin city authorities
had dispatched the truck to a
border point, and a crowd
gathered beyond the barbed
wire.
West Berlin officials also
have set going again the elec-
trio sign that flashes news
bulletins into the East sector
at the Potsdamer platz. a ma
jor crossing point now walled
off. The sign had not been
operating for years.