BRITISH FORCED TO HAND OVER PRISONERS
VIENNA, June 4.
Six Russian soldiers entered the Vienna police headquarters and forced at the pistol-point a British military patrol and Austrian police to release two drunken Russian soldiers arrested last night in the British sector of Vienna, according to the Ministry of the Interior. A British spokesman in Berlin said the Russians held up five railway wagons of German mail for the western zones at Marienborn, on the AngloSoviet zonal border.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22657, 7 June 1948, Page 5
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