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COMMENT OF THE DAY
East Berlin. Revolt
is doubtful whether any- thing could have moro rudely shaken the satellita Communist Government of
East Germany out of n "complacent faith in its own Indestructibility thun the spontaneous demonstrations and open rioting which have occurred in East Berlin during the past two days. The display of mass hostility by # people believed to be completely subjugated by its govern- ment has also taken the Western world by surprise. It discounts to some extent the suggestion that iron- hand dictatorships Arc Invulnerable. The reasona for the revolt are still not cloar, but undoubtedly they have their roots in growing discontent by the workers over their economic position. The East German Prime- Minister, Herr Grotowohl has admitted
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"grave errors" by his Government which have resulted in
serious shortage of consumer goods and daily necessities. This, and the harsh demand that the people put in un additional 10 per cont of working hours without any Increase in pay, placed too atrain on the obedience of East Berliners,
Povore
BUT the demonstrations can
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RUSSIAN TROOPS TAKE OVER N. Korean
EAST BERLIN
Riots End In
Seven
Dead, 60 Wounded
DEMONSTRATIONS
OVER
E.
ALL
GERMANY
Berlin, June 17.
Soviet tanks barred the Western gates to the Soviet zone tonight, where a few hours before they had fired into a milling West Berlin crowd.
Martial law and curfew had stilled the turbulent streets of the East sector after two days of bloody rioting against Communist rulo.
Soviet soldiers bivouacked at main street crossings and lit camp fires.
Conservative estimates put today's casualties at seven Berliners killed and 60 wounded. Two men died when Soviet tanks ran over their heads, a 21-year-old youth was shot in the head outside the East German Government buildings in Leipziger Strasse, and a West Berliner was shot in the head near the Potsdamer Platz, great central square of the capital. The thousands of demonstrators who had marched through the streets of East Berlin since early morning `vanished from 'the streets as
the 9p.m.-
5 a.m. curfew imposed by the Soviet authorities came into force.
than three people in Linden fordenburg gate. of unifying East and West Ger
on
through
ננת
the
also he regarded As manifestations of a deep- rooted hatred for the Com-
In proclaiming martial law loads of steel-helmeted Soviet The serious .ciate of almmer- munist system of govern- at 1230 GMT today, the Sovietmachine gunners.
ing unrest which has been mert: Communism is not Army forbade all demonstra- The anti-tank gung were also revealed. must also have an the choice of the East Ger- tions, meetings and assemblies deployed in the Unter Dan important influence on Moscow mans. Thoy have beep of more
the British sector decisions in the wider problem forced to become docile the streets and in public places entallites of Soviet Russia was the first time since the war barracked polico force which is
and Imposed the curfew, It Battalions of East Germany's many, it is
thought here They have been denied free ended that martial law was in trained and equipped like
The vital fast which emerges
the elections and have had to posed anywhere in Germany.
events in Berlin is that accept.
dictatorship
From then
the Soviet army guarded entrances to Russin can no longer be certain authorities and
East Berlin and barred everyone that East German Com- because hitherto they have
East Berlin
Party can without an East Berlin identity munist been in no position
keep thla police began slowly to gain
card from entering.
territory subservient to Krem- resist. What the people of control over the tens of thou-
lin's will still less
it that Soviet tanks AGITATIONS SPREAD sands of rioters. East Berlin have shown
could dominate an all-German began to move, Into the street, Refugees reaching West Ber- during the past two days is
government. and steel-helmeted lorry-borne in today brought reports of that although they have troops and other armed Soviet strikes,
Coming anch
50 shortly protest marches long been suppressed they troops began to patrol
serious all the demonstrations, from
rioting in Czechoslovakia the Berlin disturbancos must have not lost entirely the trouble centres around the East East Germany. will or the desire for free. German Government buildings
thousand workers in iso raise the possibility that don. It remains to be seen Goto, where
will have and hear the ---Brandenburg
the British whether their self-imposed Soviet sectors meet. Government will heed the
East lesson, for it is perfectly warning obvious that the mass of East Germans will not be antisfied merely with improved living and work
Berlin
police
1182
over
aftor
and the randenburg Steelhout the Sovicussions
zone.
on Germany
Noy
HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, wearing the uniform of a Field Marshal, and mounted, takes part in the Trooping the Colour ceremony at Horse Guards Parade. When this picture was taken he was following Her Majesty the Queen as she rode down the Mall to the parade, AP photo,
Rosenbergs' Fate In The Balance
Washington, June 17.
Condition Excellent
Boston, June 17-
where
POWS Break Out Of Prison
Seoul, June 18. Thousands of anti. Communist North Korean
war prisoners stormed out of four United Nations prison campa today in
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mass breakout to avoid continued imprisonment af- ter an armistice is signed. The prisoners, many of them interned for nearly three years, crashed through barbed wire fences in what the prisoner-of- war Command described as a
was
"co-ordinated mass breakout."
The POW Command announce ment cald the
breakout "partially successful" at camps number six, seven and nine, and that a small number got away from camp number five, Ail the camps are in the Pusan or Magan areas,
The
Was
20
almost breakout bloodless. Guards, most them South Korean soldiers, sympathetic with the anti-Com- munist North Koreans; apparent- ly did not fire their weapons at the masses of escaping prisoners. "Non-toxic irritants (tear gas) were used repeatedly in an al- Lempt to halt the breakout" tho POW Command en13.
There were no casualties among tho guard troops and the POW Com- mand announcement cald order was restored in all camps ́after the breakout-United Press.
STOP PRESS
Thousands Of POWs Freed
Tokyo, June 18, South Korea delled the United Nations Command and released thousands of anti-Communist North Korean prisoners today in Its boldest move to block an armistice.
The ROK Army Provost Marshal, Lt-Gen. Won Yong Duk, took full responsibility for directing the prisoners, release. Gen. Won is a close, confident and trusted side to President Rhec.
He went to the Presidential' Mansion to scy Rheo at 9'aun. after announcing over Scoul radio that he had issued the
ho broke out of four camd
Mr Anthony Eden was reorders to Korean military police ported in "excellent" condi- guards who stood by while tion today at Now England patriotic North Korean POW
on the Baptist hospital underwent, an operation last southern tip of the weelt.
The United Nations Command In Tokyo was stunned by the The British Foreign Secretary nellon which threatened to de- "sat
In
a chair for a short lay, if period," a hospital bulletin said cop
lott Postpone, Indefinitely the armisi.co and his diet has been increased agreement. Under the prisoner
enjoyed"
pları repatriation
adopted at The bulicio, signed by his Panmunjom over South Korean surgeons, Dr Richard B. Cattell protests, the United Nations. The Chief Justice acted about two hours after the and Dr Frank H. Lahey, added guarantees to hand over for that "in vlow of the stage of his custody to a neutral commis- Attorney-General, Mr Herbert Brownell, filed an applica-recovery, a single daily bulletin zion all Red prisoners who have tion with him for a special term of the court to review | will be issued each afternoon" turned against Communism.
at 2000 GMT.-Reuter.
United Press.
struck this morning and demonstrated
Armed assistance to the de- outside the Town
monstrators by Russian troops fired Hall, one report sald. The pollee could only have been dictated by sliois over West took no action.
extreme considerations which Berliners. loitering in the sector} Other workers at Branden outweigh the acute embarrass- border on Potsdamer Platz at 9 burg, including the whole stament that the Russians will al- p.m. just as the curfew became of the railway station, joined in
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson tonight con- most certainly the demonstration.
experience. effective. ing conditions. They desirely lit by flames from the East several
Potsdamer Platz was bright- Workers downed tools at Moscow's hand at any four-vened a. special term of the Supreme Court for
power conference factories will be seriously to share a democratie way Berlin state-run cafe Vaterland, including the AEG state-owned
weakened by 5 p.m. GMT tomorrow, to review the stay of execu- (General of life with their own apparently set on fire by the Electric Company) manufactur- today's evidence that the Eastern tion granted by Justice William O. Douglas earlier
zone is not the contented state it people in West Germany, demonstrators,
Ing electrical apparatus, and it would appear they
he has been held to be in contrast today to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted cableworks at Schoeneweide, and with the allegedly turbulent atom spies. are now willing to fight for
factories on Berlin's Western West Berlin french fighting other big
Federal Republic that right. This may well the blaze believed that two outskirts.
Reuter. be the most significant people were trapped in the Reports said that large crowds
collected development from the East building,
at outside prisons Opposite the Vaterland
places in East Germany Waldheim, Tugau. Bautzen. They shout- and
Bertin demonstrations.
BRITISH North Borneo's
STRIKES BREAK OUT
was
the already burning Columbus
House, evacuated. by the East
WAME.
broken
Borneo Looking Up demands that political pri-
sald the East sector fire brigades soners should be freed. refused to fight the fires.
The staff of the East Berlin acute labour shortage np Northwest German Radio re-State Printing works were re- pears to have been partially ported out the East derman Berlin Trade Union Federation tonight that strikes had ported to have sent the West remedied, and the Governor own of Magdeburg, Halle, a message saying "We are joy- (Sir Ralph Hone) told the Erfurt and
Leipale
aroused. You can rely on Legislative Council that
fully Refugees sald railwaymen and us."-Reuter. estates may now be able to steel and electrical workers in replant. The Colony sub- Berlin industrial suburbs also tools and demonstrated alets on a narrow financial
margin, and it has been observers in Bonn streets and on the squares" of
War To End the stay granted by Mr Douglas..
still make a reasonable proft West Berlin hitting between 10 tor said that on a tour of the war.
bursts across the border into
Next Thursday?
of the
The
The
custom in
the
Wo
from
It was not known Iman "serious doubts” whether the mediately how many of the nine (judge who sentenced the Rosen- justices would attend but six bergs in 1951 had the right to of them-a quorum provided by pass the death sentence. Jaw were either in the city or
In his 3,000-word order, Mr near
enough to get here in Justice Douglas, son of a Scots time
Presbyterian
said: Minister, Chlot Justico pre-
"Before we allow human lives to Panmunjom, June 16, sumably, as is the
ba #nuffed out we must be sure, Communist Peking raid today such cases, contacted as many, RADIO REFORT
staff officerz had drawn a cease- of the justices as possible before-emphatically sure that London, June 17.
fire fine which would be virtually making his brief announcement act within the law. If we are East Berlin Radio sald tonight the last step to an armistice in that the court was being con-not sure there will be lingering "Order has been restored in the tie three-year-old Korean war. vened.
doubts to plague the conscience adversely affected by the
after the event." An Allied
adhering spokesman predicted tonight that the riots the city's East sector, where to secrecy of the truce negotia-
The timing drop in price of rubber. But may lead to the end of the East rioting crowds have been "more tions would not confirm the Red morrow afternoon (1700 GMT resolution Mr Justice Douglas of the special If the House of Representa») Eession for one o'clock 10-
Uves adopted the impeachment the Governor prefers to ra- German Government as at and more dispersed" by Soviet radio report. gard this as a return to nor-present constituted,
However, there
the court will meet troops since the Savel tanks fired machinegun martial law today,
declaration of were
would go on trial before the were signs that the Korean fight means hours before mal, and says Borneo can
nting would end by next Thurs only ten
to go to Senate, which decide whether The station's chief commenta-
Rosenbergs are due day, third anniversary
The should be removed from its rubber, for costs and 20 men, women and children, sector he saw sevaml overturned, In
the electric chair in Slog Sing
office.Reuter. prison. are a little below what they according 40 British military burned out or burning cars and sources said the United Nations Washington, rellable
stay of execution was
DEMONSTRATIONS are in the Federation. of police.
Thousands of West Berliners lorries being removed from the and Communist truce talks plan granted earlier today by Mr Malaya. Happily, Borneo is
London, June 17. Justice to sign an armistice "this week alte Supreme Court judges the Rosenberg" marched across
Douglas, one of being remembered in a wider were watching rioting and de streets.
Demonstrator shouting "Save Big crowds gathered on
These sources said the main field. The Straits Times monstralions just across the bor
western side of the Potsdamer der in the Palsdamer Platz when mentions that the
Platz, U.S.
Immediate the London West End tonight West problem standing in the way of acting on his own, the tanks fired.
**fascist
South Koren's Mutual, Security Agency Is
Berlin organisations had sent threat to more fund continu's move in the House of Repres behind a deputation heading for their members to try to meeting half the cost of the SHOOT INTO CROWD
the fight alone. Hopes were sentatives by Mr Willam Me- the United States Embassy.
Donald Wheeler
Traffic way held up as the a. Democrat now wharves at Labuan, Russian soldiers who had voko Soviet troops and polico, high, however, that this obstacle
from
200-yard-long procession moved Georgia, to have Sandakan, and
crrived in Jesselton,
lorries stood by but without success, the com-will soon be surmounted.
mentator said.
"high rimes away from an open air meeting while there has been a sub- walls the tanks fired several
Meanwhile, newly appointed impeached for burals.
Ho sold youths from "fascist members of the United Nations and misdemeanours in office in Hyde Park and set off town
Oxford Street, stantial British grant for The British military police organicallons? cycling in groups military. Armistico Commission Tomorrow's special" Supreme Court session twas called after drainago
Police stopped them before in the eastern sector were dis- were scheduled to leave Tokyo the Government had challenged they reached and Irrigation said: "They shot straight into
the American schemes. Expert fald is the crowd. But perhape it was
by troups and police for Korca today to enforce the Me Justice Douglas
and asked Embassy in Grosvenor Square being provided by the a mistake. Perhaps they only
when they tried to collect new | terms of mice that the dar a review of his decision. and only allowed the six-man crowds.
Another Colonial Development Fund meant to shoot over the heads
These injured in the riots Peking report may be correct Court refused to grant a stay of ency and retrial for the Earlier this week de Supreme deputation' to carry on ant hand petition demanding and UN. welfare agencies dispersed to warn them to
wore people "struck.
by was the fact United Nationa and
execution by dive votes to four.clemency "on çducatior i projects, child After the shooting West
rowdies. Ber-
Reuter.
two atom spics. Communist staf welfare, nutzing and mater liners again swarmed back
MITHUANIAN Mirys Oilcers, chariga) Mr Douziàs was one of the four.") POSER FOR EREMLIN A to
with Ax
fixing the ceasefireline, of the Supreme Court reveries Reuter correspondents cabled hitywork, soil: research, the square in spite of warnings
London, June 17. recessed their conference here Me Justice Douglas's decision, these reports from other world Anti-Communist Sostatistical systems, and local from police and border customs.
risting in indefinitely last night. An earlier the Rosenbergs will presumably centres of appeals and demon- The Soviet Army tonight Soviet occupied Berlin may broadcast ala Halsop
officers on die at 11 o'clock tomorrow night strations for clemency for the 6. economic problems sent in scores of tanks to scal force Russia to think again bo- Tuesday night were seen in (8 am GMT, June 19) as ori- couple:
general. The towns have of all the main approaches to fore giving East Germany the specting jointly what would be aginglly scheduled,
even begun to think of modern water supplies and 'sowbrago,ayatama,pi
"
of the
persed
where
Thero
on
the
the East sector from West Berlin, "now deal", promised last work, side for the actual signing: otrok Fifty-your-uld. Mr. Justice took up positions in the Unter diplomatic sources said here to-many next to the conference Tuglas, the "youngster of the Den Linden to reinforce lorry night, poniewonde Son House United Press, a
Supreme Court, based⋅ His stay
Palermo, Belly-flicily's re- glonal parliament tonight voted
to send an appeal to President
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