GERMANS SEEK TO CALL HALT TO DISMANTLING

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1949, Page 5

GERMANS SEEK TO CALL HALT TO DISMANTLING

BONN, Oct. 4 (Rec. 10.30 a.m.)— The West German Federal Government today asked the Allied High Commission to stop dismantling. A Government spokesman said proposals were being drafted which would allow the alteration of the Allied dismantling policy. He added that these would be submitted to the High Commissioners, “at a suitable The Government pretested to the High Commissioners at. the * onesided” border change at Kleve, wnicn gave Holland a narrow strip of land five-eighths of a mile. long. Ten Germans living in the _ area had to change their nationality. Shipbuilding Firm Charged Six directors and executives of the World famous shipbuilding firm oi Blohm and Voss pleaded not gdUty when they appeared before the British Control Commission High Court at Hamburg charged with unauthorised interference with plant ana equipment required as reparations by the Military Government. The principal accused were tne brothers George Wilhelm Rudolf Blohm and Friederich Walther Blohm, chief partners in the firm. The others were Otto Dalldorf, manager, Heinrich Lorenzen and _ Lax Andreae, directors, and Karl Heidenreich, an employee. The Control Commission prosecutor, Mr Geoffrey Peace, said the accused had flouted the orders of the Military. Government and acted in open defiance of its plan to distribute plant among the Allies as reparations. Machinery had been removed to a new construction owned by Blohm and Voss and the identification marks obliterated; Forged invoices had been used to imply that certain machinery had gone to the Russian zone. Refused To Answer

Ernst Struck, owner of an engineering firm, refused to answer questions when called by the prosecution. The court ordered his arrest for contempt and the trial was adjourned until tomorrow.