RED PAPER’S PRESS DISMANTLED BY BRITISH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23207, 20 March 1950, Page 5

RED PAPER’S PRESS DISMANTLED BY BRITISH

BERLIN. March 17.

British officials tonight dismantled the Dress of the banned German Communist Newspaper, Die Volksstime, at Hanover. The action apparently caught the Communists by surprise. A crowd of about 1000 had clashed with the German police on March 14 when British officials visited the plant to seal the Dresses.

This time about 50 German police sealed off the streets around the plant and there was no demonstration. The British authorities had banned the publication of the newspaper after charging, that it had attempted to incite the German population against the Allied dismantling of German factories, but the same presses were soon turning out another Communist newspaper. Lasf week two editors of Die Volksstime were found guilty by a British court of endangering the occupation forces by attempting to incite the public on the dismantling question. The court also ordered the confiscation of the presses bv the British, pending the outcome of the editors’ case before a British appeals court.