FORMER GERMAN TERRITORY
RESETTLEMENT BY RUSSIANS SOVIET NEWSPAPERS’ ACCOUNTS (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, January 17. According to reports in Russian newspapers reaching London, great progress has been made in the resettlement and sovietisation of that part of the former German province of East Prussia annexed by Russia. A continuous stream of Russian settlers is being poured into the territory, including collective farmers, teachers, doctors, agricultural scientists, and tractor drivers. Many of them come from the neighbouring Soviet province of White Russia, but others come from the devastated districts of Smolensk, Pskov, and Bryansk and from central Russia. The peasant settlers are bringing their cattle, poultry, seeds, and agricultural implements, and 14 tractor stations have been established to assist the new collective farmers. The very name of East Prussia has now disappeared, and the Soviet section of it is known as the Kaliningrad district. Kaliningrad harbour,** - the largest ice-free harbour in the Russian Baltic territories, has been restored, and is now one of the most important of the Russian ports. Everything German in the area has disappeared.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25086, 18 January 1947, Page 2
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