VIENNA BLOCKADE

Grey River Argus, 17 April 1948, Page 5

VIENNA BLOCKADE

AMERICANS HELD UP LONDON', April 15. The Associated Press Vienna correspondent says the Russian troops have established a blockade on the road leading through the Soviet zone to the American airfield at Tulin, 14 miles west of Vienna. The Russians requested United States personnel to produce four-Power military travel permits. Soviet guards completely relaxed control of the British road and rail movement and concentrated on the Americans.

The guards permitted some Air Force personnel livin'- in Vienna to pass after lengthv arguments, but refused others, who had to return to Vienna.

The Russians maintained ' to.-day a tight blockade of the road to the American airfield at Tulin. The Russians held for an hour an American correspondent and photographer and seized a film after the photographer had photographed the new Russian road-block between Vienna and the American airfield.

In, Vienna to-day the British and American authorities met and discussed the possibility of concerted action over the latest Soviet restrictions.

American military police seized three tons of coffee, 5401 b of cocoa and hundreds of bars of chocolate when they broke up a German black-market gang.

The British Uuited Press correspondent says the gang was working from a displaced persons’ camp and had business running into millions nf reichmarks. The poiice arrested four Germans and one Jewish displaced person.