THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1948..
U.S. FEARS OF CLASH IN Incident Might Involve "More Than German Police Stabbed By
Russians In U.S. Sector
Berlin, August 21.
American authorities ·éxpressed fear today of a clash between oc- cupation forces after Russian soldiers boat and stabbed Ger- man police in the US sector of Berlin.
Failing
a settlement, an American spokesman said, "something might happen that will involve more than the Germans."
Russian officers tonight fold Amoricon officials they would koop armed Soviet troops concentrated in Central Berlin as long as the U.S. koops its military police there.
11
Restorvenvents United States and Ituss,
poltre pulled
out
British, puber to mark the seetur boun
milt-day clearly with painted line, AL 3,00 p.m., »lì Ambucan see- tonight
the black market they
would
"work in much closer co-operit- tion with Jhe. Soviet milltary police" Dr.
Ferdmand Friedensburg.
han
Christin Domocratic Deputy Mayor of Berlin, the city officia
• ta] b#vel
affairs. responsible for stuted today: "The City Adminis tration supports to the hilt any action by the police of any sector against the black market,'
He said that he himself from Berlin's Potrdor Platz for police wer alarted. British Jacompanied Russian sector pollee
ze of their rakis where the thate sectors meet after willing police at the scene were during
Which the comforced, and the Western Ger- black marketvers on the Pots- Hurbans under two more rends in polier headquarters
"Their - damer Platz yesterday. inta the Western sectors.
Chouneed that the potere patrolling action was exemplary," he said.
Istuck rea
"greatly been
German The Soviet Deensed By 7 45 a mach sector's milk the tary police buil left only one jeep strengthened","
news agency, 'ADN, given its ver-| whicle WH
310 empty i AL pan, Russian military
bleks pole chased two ferman photo of the arrest of the two Wes. detectives by the Rus- as this morning, sald that the detectives were carrying
platols
clay a ten pots i
Is the quare
It isl At M marketers, An hour water, thres graphers to the British sector -Russian oltivers, headed by a enp-bul retçented when the photogeķe
approached tain, erossed to the Artiean sale hers
karutematik molitary police. nud partyod Colomer ER. Kelly, the American
Newsmen Chased execute ollier, for about 10
minutes.
They
such
with
asked Colonel Kelly why
the
tern sector
British an rameras,
Food Riots
In Germany.
Frankfurt, August 21.
Mare demonstrations again st rising food prices in Wee- tern Germany have spread to the Fronch zone, Radio Frankfurt reported today.
HousewiveE and workers atages a one hour protest de- monstration
Trlar. At
All shops were closed. All offices and factories stopped work. Thirty thousand workers do. monstrated at Ludwigshaven, Labour leaders told a meeting "this is last warn - Ing" to pr
to producera, to lower
A prices,
delegation Frankfurt trousowlvoa de. mandnd authorities take
made
draslic action to cut rising Cost-Asociated Press.
Scheme To Check Red Terrorism
Singapore, August 21. The Malayan authorities will national registration
The agency added: "Only after start a
BERLIN Germans”
No Case. Yet For Recognition
London, August 21. The Foreign
Offlac today refused to define Britain's at titude toward Israel's planned application for membership In the United Nations.
Asked whether the Brillsh would approve or oppose' nuch, an, application, spokesman told a
news conference:
"I can only say we have not yrt 601
Enlished
fed ourselves that there Is a case for the recognition of the
BIG FIRE ON GUAM
Washington, August 21. Fire, raged through a huge United States Navy petrol tank-farmor Guam today after an early morning ex- plosion, the Navy reported; here.
The Reene was about Ave milles from. Apra Harbour.
Hundreds of American service- men were in the fight to control the fire. Costuities, if any, were undetermined, the Navy snil.
Flames and smoke from the burning petrol rose about 1,000 feet iniq the air, anid a despatch received at Navy headquarters.- Associated Press.
EMBASSY PUT
ON SPOT
Stockholm, August 21. The Soviet Embassy in Stock- holm has refused to forward an invitation to Colerel 1. Makarov, father of the "Swedish Kosen- present government of Israel." kina," Lydia Mökaróv, to come to Israel informed the Security Sweden to see his daughter, the Council on Friday that it would newspaper Dagen Nyheter re- upply for membership and exported today. pected the Geners' Assembly to
Dagens Nyheter had offered to accept the application during its pay all expenses if the Colonel Paris meeting which opens on undertooks. The trip-Associated
Press. September 21.
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES' WORLD COUNCIL
Amsterdam, August 21.
they had been arrestert did they scheme in the northern states Almost 1,500 delegates, consultants and observers admit that they were members of Kedah and Perlis on August of the American sector
Com- poliée. 25 to seal off possible
the Western-sponsored
re-
The scheme.
initiated
roprosenting 150 churches in 42 countries gathered in Amsterdam today for the assembly of the ecumenical movement.
World "under The assembly will constitute a permanent
Council of Churches in the next two weeks. This is the biggest and most! Apart from committees dealing important conference of such with practical business there will a number of Christian churchese four study sections.
Five Presidents ever held.
At 945 p.13% British military i string forces of American adire began by paint the words fine Suviet quarters state munist penetration from Siam. military police hur: been brought "Bath Sectur" in yellow paint
or knocked the emergency powers to check were told that they were jolong the sector boundary, Ger. Pls that the disguised police-
Imam workmen on British orders en were stabbed
ventions"
Chinese residents of the States Western account of the arrest to apply for registration cards at stated that they were
dragged police stations, post offres sector into frum District Officers in the more fron the American
remote areas, one the Soviet sector and that
officers will was stabbed and the other knock-
be
Antect the American sepies began to extenl the trade rull-down with rifle butts are pure in-terrorism in Maisyn, will compel
When the Russians line their troops had
offences" the American
produced a
pavement's edge in rother of the Pots-
the jinga un colusel the British
lamer Platz.
A1 5.00 p.m, Colönet Paul Markgraf, the Russian-appoint.
nist of alleged bren- ches by Russian troops and Soviet sector Germun
In their
police
rus ele the Potsdamer black market in the inst three days. adding-"Our Tyrogis will stay bere".
We Stay Too
ed Berlin police chief, inspected down with a rifle butt-As-
the Russian sector police on the sociated Press and Reuter. Rusian side of the square.
British and American reporters
who
10 attempted siquore to interview
the COSS
were
The Russian captain replied: chased buck into the Tritish sec. "bure, we stay here too," turn tor by Russian military police in:
jeeps,
ed on his beet without saluting and marched back across the square, followed
The
two black by the
usual Potsdamer flatz
absent from marketeers, other officers whu accompan- their pitches earlier today, were led him.
creeping back into business late
Both Alliedt
Immigration
11t
present at the principal certres to 'check all applications.-Reuter.
U.S. STAFF EVACUATES
TO
FRANKFURT
Frankfurt, August 21.
nor, has evacuated hundreds of his Military Government subordinates from Berlin, pushing thom right back into the American Zono where they started three years ago.
Potsdamer Platz, a noted black this afternoon and by 5.00 p.m... market entre and the scene for three or four hundred of thein. the past three days of East West were as usual buying and selling General Lucius D. Clay, American Military Gover police clusives, saw two more in currency, cigarettes and chocolate.
in the day. AL cidents eacher
Russian sertor daw, at about 5.00 azn. three between terman sour Russian rothary puling crossed polier were planting anothe เม่น! into the British sector and arrest- frakt on the linck market tonight. ed two
in the British corner o
of the one of ur policemen,
managed to escape, lequar inte this afternoon, while The other was dried min the military policemen were painting Russia seclor
hors to show the sector Just over six hours later,
benndary, a
Russian jeep, park 11.20 m., a number of Russians ed right acres the path of the erussed into the American sexton painters, with one wheel in Bri-
near the
i
Potsdamer Platz nad tish territory. pulled two Western sector plata- clothes police into their sector.j
U.S. Reply One of the detectives was stab-
Its ceppants watched the paint other was hit on The
ma werk stolidly, but drove of head-with-a-Hifle-bull-during-fore the white tine reached
their vehicle.
bell
the
to
Skeleton Staff
and
There will be A number of public sessions and church, sar- vicou.
About eight out of every 10 Christians and Protestant and Or-
all over the thodox countries world were represented in the
Five provisional presidents of Counell ́are Pasteur World Council. A small minority the World of Protestant
France, Arch- churches, fearing Marc Boegner, modernistic
Influences in the bishop Erling Eidem, Sweden the World Council, abstained and Archbishop of Canterbury, Erl- even just finished a congress of Archbishop D. Germanos of which Thynteire, with a Sec in London, their own in Amsterdam constituted the International and Dr. John R. Mott, United
Christian Council of
State stian Churches, States opposed to the World Council.
The congress meeting in the The Russian Orthodox Church Dutch capital is busily preparing (Patriarchate of Moscow) did not decorations and illuminations for accept the invitation for Ama-the Queen's 50 years jubileo and terdum and is completely abstain-Inauguration of the new Queen,
the Juliana.-United Press. ing from participation in World Council.
The Roman Catholic Church, although not willing to come In- to the World Council, will send about 10 unofficial observers.
World Council
HONOUR FOR PRELATES
Paris. August 21.
Schuman, French
to two
Ofcc.--
this With the collapse of all four-tight housing situation in power machinery in Germany, wrecked city
makes that Im-
M, Robert The Arst task of the congress Foreign Minister, foday awarded General Clay pared the Amer-possible. The wind up of the war
crimes trials in Nuernberg made will be the definite formation of the Legion of Honour 600 can staff in Berlin which is less than one fourth that city the logical second choice a World Council of Churches which American prelates who are lead- as a new base for the Military had been in the process of forma-ing the pilgrimage of 600 New of the 2.000 now on the pay-Government.
Lourdes. to tion since 1938. The war prevent-England Catholics roll.
But the American chief still fed the plamed 1941 assembly. The Most Reverend Richard J. The westward shift reverses the has plans for erammning more into The Congress is expected to Cushing. Archbishop or Boston, direction of the earlier personnal Frankfurt. An undisclosed num-adopt a constitution, programme, vas made an Officer of the Legion transfer made in the days when her of, local house stood empty polley and budget of the World and
his auxiliary, Monsignor uptimism-about-four-power-rule for months-awaiting-such-trans-Council, to ciect-un-oficer-und John Wright was awarded_the short struggle.
for Germany was more prevalent. |fers. Brigndier General Robin-190 members to the "central com-grade of Knight. Colmel William . Babcock, the Accoming to DPD, the German; Lato in 1845 when Guneralson Dull, Frankfurt Commander,mittee to consider reports from The decoration ceremony fol. American
news agency, the Russian sector Joseph T. MeNarney took over the refused to say how many residcongress sections and committees lowed a luncheon, given by M. Deputy Commandant in Berlin, tried at noon to con- police announced today that all command from General Eisen-ences there were on his "frozen" und finally to adopt a "message of Schuman for the visiting pre- tact his Soviet oposite number but four
Forelan 2,500 people shower, the push to Berlin started. list benuse "releasing such la-assembly to the churches of the Inles at the of the to demand the release of the
formation night gave" the wrong world.
United Press. The military Government plainclothes men' and four Ameri-arrested by them in black market nids yesterday, had now been
Impression about our intentions office scattered around this brea ean sector police, who were #P=|retensed.
10 stay in Berlin." rested by the Russians, yesterday,} The four still in custody were were one by one transplanted to
Berlin. He was told that the Com-suspected of having stoned Rus- mandant, Colonel Alexis Yell-sian sector police, it was stated. Barve, was "out of town for the
American officials early to
General Clay estimates that week-end",
day armed three of the
When General Cloy assumed the about 150 officials will be affect- Germani said to have been
Potsdamer spot in March 1847, he gated by the Berlin-Nuernberg.shill. hered in others including some The General himself will main- Platz black market raid by purely milltary organisations tain an office in the Bavarian city Soviet sector police on Thursdirectly under his personal con- as well as here and in Berlin. armed with tommy Kuns, were day, night.
military tral in the former capital.
Purely American" The names were released on Now the reverse is taking place government functions draws up across the Potsdamer!
will be con- Platz. British and American mill-orders from Colonel William Bab-
the move by the ecatrated
while In Nuernberg tary police reinforcements arcock, the American Deputy Com
This month the French other divisions which work in
Government rived on the scene. Black market mandant, after Colonel Yelisanov Military
finished conjunction with the British and dealings were at a standstill. had issued a statement to the So-shipping nearly 3,000 personnel French are clustered in Frank-
German At 16 pm, the British nu viet-licensed
Berlin, thorities, in an official statement agency, ADN, Hatly denying that
The Nuernberg group includes on the early morning arrests, any people had been shot in the such an action or plan was made certain technical and intelligence stated that the Russians had been raid and calling the reports that although several hundred have oflees. Others which are to come leave General Clay asked to release the two British they had been inventions and been moved here to participate in later will
provocations", rector policemen urrested.
the Anglo-American control or-with not much more than a skele At 130 p.m., Major Generat The Soviet sector police head-ganisation.
ton' staff of top flight advisers as E.O. Herbert, the British Com quarters nunounced this afternoon General Clay has said that he the Military Government repre-
ilke to
his sentatives in the blockaded met- visited
transfer pu mandant.
Potsdamor that in future operations against would
Frankfurt. Berlin staff to Platz und ordered Britishi military
The ropolis.-United Press.
British Roquest
་་
The later serquel of events wast
At 1.00 p.m., Russian soldiers,
wounded
In the
six
French Precedent
news and dependenta from
No official announcement
furt.
of
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