HAMBURG RIOTS
GOAL TRAIN RAIDED . CHARGES BY COMMUNISTS (Rec. 12-5 p.m.) LONDON, March 24. Five hundred Germans raided a coal train at, Hamburg to-day, says the Associated Press Hamburg correspondent. Police dispersed the crowd with gunfire. Twelve persons were arrested. Addressing a mass meeting at Hamburg, S. F. Dettman, leader of the Communist Party in the British zone, declared tihat the only solution for Germany's food shortage was the pooling of food throughout Germany, irrespective of the zones, says Reuter's Hamburg correspondent. The Germans could not live on the present ration, and were entitled to more. The Communist Party demanded that German children, who were not responsible for the war, should be saved. Dettman criticised the progress of deNazification in the British zone, where Nazis were sabotaging industry and commerce and the farmers were taking 50 per cent, of their produce to the black market. There was better organisation in the (Russian zone, where the authorities had a plan of reconstruction and were working for a hew Germany,. ,
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Evening Star, Issue 25750, 25 March 1946, Page 5
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