GOODS TRAINS STILL CARRY FOOD All COAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14636, 3 April 1948, Page 3

GOODS TRAINS STILL CARRY FOOD All COAL

FIRM ATTITUDE TAKEN WITH RUSSIANS BY ALLIES IN BERLIN

NO SEARCH OF U.S. MILITARY TRAINS WILL BE PERMITTED

SOVIET ACCUSATIONS OF “ROBBERY AND PLUNDERING” London, April 2. The Allied Kemmandatura has been in session all day, and tonight the Soviet Deputy-Commander announced that the Russians could no longer take part in the work of the six main committees of the Kommandatura. ; He made this announcement after accusing the Western powers of having robbed and plundered the Berlin capital. The position of Allied transport into Berlin tonight is that goods trains are running into the city carrying food and coal, and so no food is being taken in by air for the British sector of Berlin, although the British authorities have today been using aircraft to take passengers into the capital. The Americans Lave, however, been using trains to transport food, and during the day 26 United States planes have flown into Berlin from Frankfurt carrying food and passengers. The United States Military Governor, General Lucius D. Clay, sail tonight that this transport of food by air would .probably end for at least the time being, and it had been decided to send goods trains to the American sector. General Clay emphasised that he had not changed the United States policy of refusing to allow the Russians to search military trains. So far the Russians have made no new regulations about good trains. Waybills of the contents have to be presented to the Russians, but this is a thing that has always been done in the past. The first American goods train is due in Berlin sometime tomorrow. The Russians have restricted all goods traffic from the west to a single line on the grounds that the other line is being repaired. The French have now decided to cancel all their military trains to Berlin.