HOUR’S BATTLE
Communists And Police (Roc. 10.30) LONDON, March 14, The Associated Press Berlin correspondent reports that 1000 Communists battled for an hour with German police at Hanover to-day outside the office of the banned Communist newspaper “Volkstimme.” The demonstrators were trying to prevent a British officer entering the building to confiscate the newspaper’s presses. A Hanover court issued a confiscation order after convicting four of “Volkstimme’s” editors on Charges of endangering the security of the Allied occupation _ forces. Eighty police were called - to clear the demonstrators -from the front of the building, and 20 arrests were made.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 128, 15 March 1950, Page 3
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