Conflict
Meanwhile the conflict between the opposing police forces in the city continues.
The Western police chief (Johannes Stumm) today ordered Police Director Erdmann to release a German policeman, arrested in the Eastern sector on the night of August 7, with a warning that Erdmann “will be faced with criminal proceedings if he ignores this order, as he has done all previous ones.”
British authorities said the Russiancontrolled police last night arrested a number of German police who obeyed the orders of the Western police chief (Johannes Stumm). Under Communist orders the police called on policemen living in the Russian zone.
They did not even give them time to dress before taking them away. The Russians are digging trenches and building artillery positions round the Western boundaries of Berlin, according to the British-licensed Berlin Telegraf. The paper says that people who go out into the Russian zone to collect mushrooms are often forced to do a hard day’s work digging trenches.
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Northern Advocate, 10 August 1948, Page 5
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