U.S. Troops Stop German Demonstration

Grey River Argus, 30 October 1948, Page 5

U.S. Troops Stop German Demonstration

STUTTGART, Oct. 28 United States and German police used fixed bayonets and tear gas when between 300 and 400 demonstrators marched down Stuttgart’s main street smashing shop windows after a meeting of protest against the policies of the German Economic Council. The demonstrators threw broken bottles, knives and stones at the po-

American soldiers received knife wounds. The police arrested about 100 persons. Over 4500 Germans attended the protest meeting.

COAL AND COKE FOR RUSSIAN ZONE (Rec. 9.50) LONDON, Oct. 29 The British United Press reports that the Moscow radio said that nearly two hundred thousand tons of coke and coal from Poland, with ninety thousand two hundred tons of coke from Czechoslovakia, were delivered to Berlin and to the Russian zone of Germany during the month of October.