BLOODY RIOTING IN BERLIN
BATTLE FOR STATIONS CONTINUES (Rec. 12,5 a.m.) BERLIN, May 22. Bloody rioting flared up at dawn as reinforced Eastern-sector railway police and strike-breakers attacked Berlin railway stations occupied by strikers. Eastern-sector police fired 50 shots into 300 strikers at Charlottenburg, wounding three. A striker is reported to have been shot dead by the police at the Lichtenrade station, in the American sector. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting is reported from many stations. Several strike-breakers had their heads split open by steel clubs as angry strikers battled to prevent the operation of the city’s railway services.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25810, 23 May 1949, Page 7
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