SOVIET ALLEGATION DENIED
GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR (Rec. 9.40 a.m.) BERLIN, Jan. 9. The Official News Bureau, in a 3000-word statement, accused, the British, French and American Governments of entering into a secret agreement to prevent the repatriation of German prisoners of war so that they could be sent to forced labour in France, Belgium and otljer European countries. The Bureau also said that as a result the Western- Allies had deliberately frustrated the drafting of a repatriation plan in the now-defunct Allied Control Council.
A British official spokesman said that the Soviet allegation was completely without foundation and was obviously designed to divert attention from the fact that the Russians themselves had failed to keep their promise to return all German prisoners of war by. December 31 last.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 76, 10 January 1949, Page 3
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