RUSSIANS WANT TO STAY IN WEST GERMANYSOVIET PROTESTS

Grey River Argus, 28 February 1949, Page 5

RUSSIANS WANT TO STAY IN WEST GERMANYSOVIET PROTESTS

(Rec. 9.40) WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, said that the Soviet Government had communicated with the United States and British Embassies in Moscow, protesting about obstacles put by American and British authorities in the way of the-repat-riation of Soviet citizens from the British and American zones in Germany and in Austria. The Associated Press says: Lieu-tenant-General Lukyanshenko, the Soviet Chief of Staff in Germany, alleged recently, that the Americans were holding more than one hundred thousand Russians in western GerThe American officials say that all of the Soviet citizens who are still in Germany do not want to return to Russia. . , General Clay, U.S. .Cominander. has asked a Soviet Repatriation Mission, to quit the American zone of Germany FRESH AIRLIFT RECORD (Rec. 8.301 BERLIN, Feb-27 The British and American airlift set another new record on Saturday by flying 8025 tons of supplies to the blockaded Berlin.