RAW MATERIALS AND POWER FOR BERLIN

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25554, 23 July 1948, Page 7

RAW MATERIALS AND POWER FOR BERLIN

Russians Offer Supplies “FURTHER STEP TO UNDERMINE WESTERN POSITION” (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Re< k 11 n k LONDON, July 22. taking to feed the whole the? tricity and raw materials for the Western sectors. • Jhis move is regarded as a further step in the Soviet plan to undermine the position of the Western allies in Berlin ” savs the Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” “The Russians have the largest and most modern generating ptant Tn Uerlm, at Klingenberg, and the main Berlin electrical control station is also in the Russian sector. Coal can be brought from Silesia, and Polish coal ordered by the Western allies will almost certainly be diverted to the Soviet generating stations. “Although most Berliners distrust and fear the Russians the offer of electric power and raw materials cannot fail to affect thousands of western Berliners thrown out of work by the Russian blockade and for whom the alternative will be the manual labour projects, including rubble clearance, offered by the Western commandants.”

The Russians have also announced that Berliners in the Western sectors will be able to draw their full rations in the Soviet sector atter August 1.