SWEDISH APOLOGY TO RUSSIA
Reported Incident In Berlin Embassy (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)
(Rec. 8.30 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, February 13. Sweden is to apologise to the Soviet authorities ip Berlin for disturbances which the Russians allege that Albert Hilding Kinnberg, aged 38. a Stockholm 'businessman, caused in the Soviet Embassy in Berlin recently in a bid to “talk peace” with Mr Molotov.
Kinnberg is reported to be in the Waldheim Concentration Camp. The Russians said he knocked out five East Berlin policemen in the Embassy. The Swedish Foreign Ministry said today that it has instructed its Berlin Consulate-General to express its regret and to suggest that Kinnberg be sent home for medical care.
According to reports, Kinnberg said he was related to Mr Molotov. When a Russian official refused to let him enter he knocked three policemen down with a chair and tossed a.heavy armchair through a window into the street.
A police patrol of 12 men was needed to overpower the Swede and two of them were knocked down in the. final struggle. Trie correspondent says that the reception room looked like a battlefield rftcr the skirmish.
The So iet authorities were unable to question Kinnberg, who was reported to be still very violent
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27274, 15 February 1954, Page 9
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