Warning To East Germans

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28154, 18 December 1956, Page 9

Warning To East Germans

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) <Rec. 10 p.m.) BERLIN, Dec. 16. The First Secretary of the East Berlin Communist Party. Mr Alfred Neumann, today warned: “Anyone who tries to meddle with the hardwon socialist achievements of East Germany should realise that he is playing a dangerous game and will break his neck in the attempt. “Every point in West Berlin can be reached from the (East) German Democratic Republic in 15 minutes,” he said in a speech to factory workers i published today in the East German Communist Party newspaper, “Neues ! Deutschland.” i The paper also reported that a number of East Berlin university students boycotted a Communist | meeting last night. They had re- ' fused to attend because party officials | from factories were there to exchange : “comradely words with them about important political problems,” the ; newspaper said.

i Warsaw Radio today denied reports iof unrest in several parts of Poland, j claiming that they were “figments of imagination” by Western correspondents. The radio specifically denied that a Soviet supply train had been attacked at Kutno, on the WarsawPoznan road, or that a Soviet officer’s house had been set on fire in Lignicia. The radio, quoting the Polish news agency, P.A.P.. also denied that there had been a strike at a Poznan metal works.