SOVIET PROTEST IN BERLIN
ARREST OF FIVE OFFICIALS (Rec. 9 p.m.) .BERLIN, June 25. Mr Georgi M. Pushkin, the Soviet High Commissioner, protested today to the British Ambassador in Eonn (Sir Frederick Hoyer-Millar) against the “illegal arrest of Soviet High Commission officials in West Berlin.” Mr Pushkin’s letter, quoted by the East German news agency, A.D.N.. said that five employees of the Soviet High Commission in Germany were attacked on June 18 by 14 civilians at the entrance to the zoological garden and taken to a police station. “The civilians were armed with revolvers and turned out to be Wes/. Berlin policemen,” the letter said. The Soviet employees were not released until noon on June 19, it added. British authorities in West Berlin said on Sunday that five Russian civilians had been detained for “suspicious behaviour” near the zoo railway station by West Berlin police on Saturday. They were handed over to the British authorities when their nationality was established.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27695, 27 June 1955, Page 11
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