SOVIET CHIEF’S CLAIM
BRITISH PLANE BLAMED BERLIN AIR COLLISION (10 a.m.) BERLIN, April 23. General Alexandrov, commander of the Russian Air Force in Germany, tried for two hours to prove to several hundred Allied and German reporters that the Britisn Viking passenger plane was to blame for the collision with the Soviet Yak fighter over Berlin on April 5. General Alexandrov' received the press representatives in a room decorated with enlarged photographs of the Yak’s wreckage, which were designed to “prove” that the British moved the Yak before the Russians examined it. Parts of the Yak’s engine were also on view. The official Soviet newspaper Taeglich Rundschau said that the Britisn and American- authorities had made new regulations which “forced eastern European planes to fly zigzag routes a long way from emergency grounds,” constituting “a danger to the security of European flying.” The newspaper claimed that the British and Americans were establishing secret airfields in the Western zones. _____
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22620, 24 April 1948, Page 5
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