RUSSIAN OFFICER FIRES AT INCENSED GERMANS
(10.30 a.m.) .. ..LONDON, Sept. 30. United States military patrols rushed to the southernmost part of the United States sector of Berlin today, following confused reports that Russian troops were firing into the area. They found that one German had been shot but the incident was not as bad as the early report suggested. The shooting occurred when a German crowd gathered outside a house where a Russian lieutenant was visiting a German girl. The lieutenant left the house and threatened the crowd with a rifle as he backed towards the nearby woods. Two other Russians came to the lieutenant’s assistance, The lieutenant fired three shots, hitting one German as the ■ American military police arrived.
While a Russian tommygunner stood by with his finger on the trigger, the lieutenant was approached by two Russian-speaking British newspapermen through whom the lieutenant apologised to the American colonel. “I am sorry it happened,” he said. “I would never shoot an American. I was just trying to scare the German mob. I don’t see why there should be so much excitement about one German girl.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 5
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186RUSSIAN OFFICER FIRES AT INCENSED GERMANS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 5
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