RUSSIAN GUARDS SHOOT AT BRITISH SOLDIERS ON SOVIET ZONE BORDER
Rec 9.30 p.m. LONDON. Dec. 17. Soviet guards shot and severely wounded a British soldier on the Russian zone border near Helmsted. where the blockaded highway to Berlin enters the Soviet zone, says the Frankfurt correspondent of the Daily Herald. The Russians are also holding eight British soldiers and a German policeman from the British zone. The trouble began when Soviet guards fired warning shots at three British soldiers and a German civilian who were chasing hares near the frontier. The Russians captured one soldier and the other two reported back to British lines. A British captain, with a nine-man patrol and two German policemen, set off to talk to the Russians. A Russian sentry fired a warning shot as they approached. Other Soviet soldiers, emerging from their post, then opened fire. They wounded a British soldier and only he and the captain dragging him and one of the German policemen regained the British side of the frontier. A senior Russian officer is reported to be on his way to the frontier to investigate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26958, 18 December 1948, Page 7
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184RUSSIAN GUARDS SHOOT AT BRITISH SOLDIERS ON SOVIET ZONE BORDER Otago Daily Times, Issue 26958, 18 December 1948, Page 7
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