Troops Seat To Enforce Dismantling Of German Plant

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23043, 6 September 1949, Page 5

Troops Seat To Enforce Dismantling Of German Plant

i 9 a.m.) BERLIN, Sept. 5. British troops today entered the RuhrChemie chemical plant at Oberhausen for the second time in six days to enforce the dismantling of the plant, The troops were sent to the plant as the result of the resistance of workers to dismantling in accordance with Allied orders. The first reports said that a full battalion of troops arrived in armoured cars and trucks. Bren gun carriers and lorries carried the troops in battle order to the factory and 150 German police took up positions outside the plant: Eighty German workers then began dismantling the equipment which is used for making synthetic petrol and industrial products.

The workers were angry but did not. interfere.

A British Military Government officer ousted one of the plant directors from an office to be used for the military administration. Troops took up positions throughout the plant. A British United Press message says that the Berlin Socialist leader, Herr Franz Neumann, appealed in an open letter to the French High Commissioner to hall the dismantling of Berlin. The letter said: “Belief in democracy will not be strengthened among Germans if measures are adopted which must be considered unjust and which hinder Berlin's reconstruction.”

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